2009 Honorable Mention Finalist: Glimmer Train My short story “Three Women Wishing for a Boy” won a spot as an Honorable Mention Finalist in the journal’s Short Story Award for New Writers. The piece made it to the top 5% from over a thousand entries.
2009 Third Place: American Fiction Prize from New Rivers Press The judge, novelist Clint McCown, selected my story “Souvenirs” for third place from a field of 20 finalists. The story appears in the anthology American Fiction: The Best Previously Unpublished Short Stories by Emerging Writers, Volume…
2008 Semi-Finalist: Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Amazon Top Reviewers and Editors selected my novel manuscript Being Good About It as a semi-finalist in the general literature category. Publishers Weekly and interested readers provided reviews as part of the process.
Read the letter Letter in Harper’s Magazine A defense of Jonathan Kozol’s article “The Big Enchilada” and his analysis of for–profit education management organizations (i.e. shareholders making millions from our tax dollars via the privatization of our public school system). 18. Update the CV to the new…
2007 Finalist: Rick DeMarinis Short Story Contest Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts in Durango, Colorado, chose my short story “Happy Sometimes” as a finalist in their annual fiction contest.
2007 Short List for Finalists: The William Faulkner–William Wisdom Novel Competition My manuscript Being Good About It was placed on the short list for finalists in this contest sponsored by the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society in New Orleans. Judging is solely on the basis of writing talent, use…