2025 Writer’s Digest Short Short Story Contest – 4th Place (“The Piano”)

2025 Writer’s Digest Short Short Story Contest – 5th Place (“The Creation of Art”)

2024 Final Draft Big Break Contest – Semifinalist – Feature & Television Script (“Cuddlebug”)

2024 Austin Film Festival – Quarterfinalist – Comedy Feature (“IRL”)

2024 Page One Prize – Honorable Mention (Living Beings)

Eludia Award 2022 – Finalist (Novel: A Wondrous Echo)

2021 Austin Film Festival – Winner – Comedy Pilot Teleplay (“Cuddlebug”)

2021 Austin Film Festival – Quarterfinalist – Comedy Pilot Teleplay (“#VanLife”)

Book Pipeline 2019 Fiction Contest – Finalist (“Cuddlebug”)

2017 Best New Poets Anthology – Nominee (“Grammar Mnemonics for When to Use ‘Lie’ vs ‘Lay'”)

2013 William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Competition – Semi-Finalist (Novella: or what’s left of it)

2012 New Writer 16th Annual Prose and Poetry Prize – Long List (Microfiction: “Ghost Wound”)