Honors

• 2020 The Story Engine/The Shortest Story 100-word Microfiction Contest
  • Runner-Up: “Up the Last Hill” (thriller) – publishing soon

• 2020 Johnson County (Kansas) Library Imagine Your Story
  • Winner: “Something in His ‘i’s” (science fiction)

• 2020 NYC Midnight Screenwriting Challenge
  • Round 1: 1st Place for heat: Fossil of Decorum (spy)
  • Round 2: Honorable Mention: The Indulgence (science fiction)

• 2020 River Styx Microfiction Contest
  • Finalist: “For Mischief” (drama), “A Friend from Childhood” (horror), and “Unscouted Territory” (horror)

• 2020 NYC Midnight Short Story Challenge
  • Round 1: 1st Place for heat: “From Pepper Valley” (romance)
  • Round 2: 5th Place for heat: “Mute and Mutability” (romantic comedy)

• December 2019 Furious Fiction (Australian Writers’ Centre)
  • Shortlisted: “Gestation in Recess” (comedy)

• 2019 Weird Christmas Flash Fiction Contest
  • Honorable Mention: “Snow Friend of Mine” (comedy) – read the story or listen to the podcast (story starts about the 14:45 mark)

• 2019 NYC Midnight Short Screenplay Challenge
  • Round 1: 3rd Place for heat: The Toll (romance)
  • Round 2: 2nd Place for heat: The Front (horror)

• 2019 NYC Midnight Microfiction Challenge
  • Round 1: 1st Place for heat: “A Friend from Childhood” (horror)
  • Round 2: Honorable Mention: “Wedlock” (horror) – now available from Trembling With Fear

• 2019 The Molotov Cocktail Flash Monster Contest
  • Short List: “I Hate Vermonica F. (And You Should Too!)” (monster/comedy) – now available from Fat Cat Magazine

• 2019 NYC Midnight Flash Fiction Challenge
  • Round 1: 1st Place for heat: “Even Bad Guys Have Good Days in Excelsior City” (crime caper)
  • Round 2: 1st Place for heat: “Matthew, Oliver, and the Most Epic Prom-posal Westbury High Ever Saw” (romance) – now available for purchase in hard copy or digital from Triangle Writers Magazine
  • Round 3: Honorable Mention: “Holding” (ghost story) – publishing soon by Metaphorosis

• 2019 NYC Midnight Screenwriting Challenge
  • Round 1: 3rd Place for heat: Alejandro Cruz & His Planetary Pirates, Episode IX: Cruising the Galaxy for Love (romantic comedy)
  • Round 2: Honorable Mention: Shards of Discipline (ghost story)

• 2019 NYC Midnight Short Story Challenge
  • Round 1: 1st Place for heat: “Something Innocent and Benign” (fantasy) – publishing soon by The Weird and Whatnot
  • Round 2: 3rd Place for heat: “Through the Darkest of Stars, Toward the Cruelest of Fates” (ghost story) – now available from Bowery Gothic

• 2018 NYC Midnight Short Screenplay Challenge
  • Round 1: 2nd Place for heat: Some Days You Get the Dirt: A Joey Stone Mystery (mystery)
  • Round 2: 12th Place for heat: EYES (horror)
  • Round 3: 3rd Place for heat: OPERATION: Get My Gay Friend a Date (romantic comedy)

• 2018 NYC Midnight Flash Fiction Challenge
  • Round 1: 3rd Place for heat: “Grandmama Pickleberrry and the Terrific Teens in ‘The Return of the Boardwalk Boogeyman'” (ghost story)
  • Round 2: 4th Place for heat: “And Trah-lah-lah to You Too!” (mystery)

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