“Frizzy” – Southern Writers Magazine Best Short Stories 2017 – Fall 2017 – Top Ten Finalist 2017 National Short Story Contest

“The Bird” – Collage: A Journal of Creative Expression – Spring 2017- Winner of the Spring 2017 Collage Creative Expression Award for Prose

“Sunrise” – Collage: A Journal of Creative Expression – Fall 2016 – Winner of the Fall 2016 Collage Creative Expression Award for Prose

“The Road Home” – Southern Writers Magazine – Summer 2016 – 1st Place Southern Writers Magazine 2016 Short Story Contest

“Fading Light” – Collage: A Journal of Creative Expression – Spring 2016

“Musings in the Dead of Night” – Collage: A Journal of Creative Expression – Spring 2016 (poetry)

“The Tea Cup” – Collage: A Journal of Creative Expression – Fall 2015 – Winner of the Fall 2015 Collage Creative Expression Award for Prose

A Very Short Story Contest – Gotham Writers – Summer 2015 – Finalist