• "Welcome to Fresno": current Finalist in Unlimited Literature's Flash Fiction Contest 2020
• "late bloom": Finalist in Crosswinds' Poetry Contest 2020
• "Ice Cream Math": Honorable Mention in Peauxdunque Review's 2020 Words and Music Writing Competition in the Creative Nonfiction category
• ​"Worst-Case Scenario": Finalist in Obra/Artifact’s Prose Contest, 2019
• Further: A Novella and Stories: Finalist for Publication with Sundress Publications, 2019
• The Women of Dauphine: Finalist in the Fiction: LGBTQ category of the 2019 Best Book Awards sponsored by American Book Fest; an earlier version of the manuscript was a Finalist in the 2016 William Faulkner - William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition in the Novel category
• ​Thanks for Nothing: Nominee in the Poems/Collection category of the 2019 Goldie Awards sponsored by the Golden Crown Literary Society
• "Jagged Patches": 3rd place Winner of the Pat Carr Prize, Tidal Journal, 2019 
• "Cut": Winner of 2018 Flexible Persona Editors’ Prize, nominee for a 2018 Pushcart Prize
• "Summer School": 2nd place Winner in The Writer’s 2018 Flash Contest, longlisted for Retreat West’s Reunions Flash Contest
• "The Change": Winner of Two Sisters Writing & Publishing’s Contest for February 2018
• "space between": Honorable Mention for the 2017 Gival Press Oscar Wilde Award
• "Scarring": Winner of the 2017 So to Speak Nonfiction Award, 2nd place Winner in the 2017 Pen2Paper Writing Competition​​​
• "Empty Eyes": Finalist in the 2016 William Faulkner - William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition in the Short Story category, Finalist in the New Millennium Writings/Sunshots’ 44th Writing Award Contest
• Further: A Novella: Shortlisted in the 2016 William Faulkner - William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition in the Novella category