Contests/Awards

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Novels:

     Be My Own Father

               ·  Black Lawrence Press    Big Moose Prize - Finalist

               ·  Hidden River Arts    Black Mountain Award - Semi-finalist

               ·  Donald L. Jordan Prize for Literary Excellence - Finalist

               ·  C & R Press Book Award - Top Fifty

               ·  University of New Orleans Press - Semi-finalist

       The Mailbox Maker

               ·  Black Lawrence Press    Big Moose Prize - Finalist

        Sourland Stew

                - Kallisto Gaia Press    Joshua Tree Novel Prize - Finalist

Short Story Collections:

       Your Only Best Hope

               -  Ohio State University's Non/Fiction Collection Prize - Semi-Finalist

       Hardly Any Mess at All

                ·  University of Georgia Press   Flannery O'Connor Award - Finalist-  

       Conversations

                  - Livingston Press   Tartts First Fiction Award - Finalist

       Wedding Night

                ·  Snake Nation Press   Serena McDonald Kennedy Award - Short List -

        Habit Swamps Logic

               ·  Snake Nation Press   Serena McDonald Kennedy Award - Semi-finalist

        Remembrance Suite

               ·  Snake Nation Press   Serena McDonald Kennedy Award - Finalist

       A Well Regulated Militia

                ·  Livingston Press   Tartts First Fiction Award - Finalist

         Victory

                ·  Regal House Publishing   W. S. Porter Prize - Long List

Short Stories/Novel Excerpts:

        Excerpt from Sourland Stew

               ·  Retreat West First Chapter Contest - Long List

         "Beacon Home"

             ·  Glimmer Train Fiction Open - Honorable Mention