Finalist for Broad River Review’s Ron Rash Award in Fiction 

Awarded third place in the 2021 Elizabeth Simpson Short Story Contest by the North Carolina Writer’s Network, judged by novelist Abigail DeWitt

Awarded the Author Fellowship by the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing 

Semi-finalist for Ember Chasm Review’s Novel Excerpt Contest 

Awarded the 2020 Elizabeth Boatwright Coker Fellowship in Fiction by The South Carolina Academy of Authors

Semi-finalist of The Nancy Zafris Short-Story Fellowship.  Awarded a four-night residency at Porches Writing Retreat in Norwood, VA 

Finalist for Broad River Review’s Ron Rash Award in Fiction, judged by author Amy Greene

Finalist for Still:  The Journal’s 2018 Literary Contest in Fiction, judged by author Wiley Cash