Awards

2020 Best of the Net Nomination by the editors of Halfway Down the Stairs for
“The Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues.”
2019 Pushcart Prize Nomination for “The Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues” published
in the September issue of Halfway Down the Stairs, http://halfwaydownthestairs.net
First Prize in the Joanna Catherine Scott Novel Excerpt Category,
Soul-Making Keats Competition, an arts outreach of the National League of American Pen Women
for my novel-in-progress Paris in the Dark
Winner of the Maryland Writer’s Association 2014 Novel Award
2014 Finalist in the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers Competition
PEN Syndicate Fiction Prize
Virginia Commission for the Arts Fiction Fellowship
The Dexter Review Short Story Award
The Flint Hills Review Creative Non-fiction Prize
Lip Service Prose Prize
Negative Capability Short Story Award
Pushcart Prize Nomination
Florida Writers First Place, Novel-in-Progress
National League of American PEN Women’s Award
North Carolina Poetry Society Award
Love Affair National Literary Competition
Writer’s Workshop Short Story Contest
William Faulkner Short Story Finalist
RPL, Florida Writers