2012

• First Place, Serena McDonald Kennedy Award (Short Story Collection), Snake Nation Press
• Finalist, Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, University of Georgia Press
• Finalist, G.S. Sharat Chandra Prize for Short Fiction, BkMk Press
• Honorable Mention, Alexander Patterson Cappon Prize for Fiction, New Letters
• Second Runner Up, The Pinch Literary Awards in Fiction
• Finalist, 2012 Salamander Fiction Contest
• Shortlist, 2012 H.E. Francis Short Story Contest, University of Alabama

2011

• First Place, 2011 Arts & Letters Prize for Fiction
• Second Place, The Writers’ Workshop of Asheville, NC, Meet the Authors Contest
• Second Place, 12th Annual Oregon Quarterly Northwest Perspectives Essay Contest
• Honorable Mention, 2011 Winter Fiction Contest, Phoebe
• Honorable Mention, 2011 Rick DeMarinis Short Story Award, Cutthroat, A Journal of the Arts
• Finalist, Annual Prose Contest, Fugue
• Finalist, 2011 National Writing Contest in Fiction, Alligator Juniper
• Shortlist, The 2011 RRofihe Trophy Short Story Contest

2010

• Honorable Mention, 2010 Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition
• Honorable Mention, 2010 Rick DeMarinis Short Story Award, Cutthroat, A Journal of the Arts
• Finalist, 2010 David Nathan Meyerson Fiction Prize, Southwest Review
• Shortlist, 2010 Faulkner-Wisdom Competition, Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society