November 2019
My essay, "The Cottage at Slaughter Beach", published in 2019
Bay to Ocean: The Best of Eastern Shore Writers, was nominated
for a Pushcart Prize.
April 2019 My poem, "Rowboat",
won the Pat Herold Nielsen Poetry Prize in Chestertown River Arts Art of
Stewardship contest.
March 2019 My essay, "The Blue
Hydrangea" won first place in the Delaware Press Association's 2019
Communications Contest and 2nd place in the National Federation of Press
Women's 2019 Contest.
March 2018
My poem, "Christmas Washington Street - 1950's" won first
place in the single poem category in the Delaware Press Association's
2018 Communications Contest.
April 2017
My poem, "June Slaughter Beach; The Invasion" won first place
in the single poem category in the Delaware Press Association's 2017
Communications Contest and was subsequently awarded 2nd place in the
National Federation of Press Women's 2017 Communications Contest.
November 2015
I was awarded a fellowship at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts.
September 2015 My story, "Shooting
Cats" was a finalist in the 2015 William Faulkner/William Wisdom
creative writing contest.
July 2015 My poem, "Spring at Dames
Quarter" won third place in the single poem category in the
National Federation of Press Women's 2015 Communications Contest.
April 2015
My poem, "Spring at Dames Quarter" won first
place in the single poem category in the Delaware Press Association's
2015 Communications Contest. My story, "Come Fly with Me" and
my short-story collection, The Mud Lake Trilogy both won
2nd place in their respective categories.
January 2015
The Delaware Division of the Arts awarded me the 2015 Established Artist fellowship
in Fiction.
September 2014
My story, "At the Marshfield Dam" made the short list
for finalists in the 2014 William Faulkner/William Wisdom creative
writing contest.
September 2014 My poem, "Spring at
Dames Quarter" was nominated for the 2014 Best of the Net
Anthology.
July 2013
My story, "At the Marshfield Dam" received honorable mention
in Ardor Magazine's 2013 Short Story Contest.
April 2013
My story, "The Hitchhiker" won second place in the short story
category in
the Delaware Press Association's 2013 Communications
Contest.
January 2013
Received honorable mention in fiction in the Delaware Division of Arts
2013 Established Artist Fellowship program.
October
2012 My story, "In Less Than a
Minute" was a finalist in the 2012 William Faulkner-William Wisdom
Creative Writing Contest. (in the top 10 of 448 entries)
September 2012
My story, "Sanctuary" was nominated for the 2013 Best of the
Net Anthology.
August 2012 My story, "At the
Marshfield Dam" was a finalist in Press 53's annual fiction contest.
January 2011 Received honorable
mention in creative non-fiction in the Delaware Division of Arts 2011
Individual Artist Fellowship Program
September 2010 My story "Come
on, Harold" was nominated for 2011 Best of the Net Anthology.
December 2009 My story, "The
Train Show" won 1st Place for
Fiction in the annual Delaware Beach Life Writing Contest.
February 2008 My story,
"Trumping Diamonds" won 3rd Place for
non-fiction in the Bay to Ocean writing contest sponsored by the Eastern
Shore Writers Association.