- "Charity": Winner of the Peauxdunque Review's 2021 Words and Music Writing Competition in the Short Story category
- "Ice Cream Math": Second Runner-Up for the 2021 Los Angeles Review Literary Award in Nonfiction, Honorable Mention in Peauxdunque Review's 2020 Words and Music Writing Competition in the Creative Nonfiction category, nominee for a 2021 Pushcart Prize by the Porter House Review
- Charity Starts at Home: Finalist in Novel Slices' 2021 Winter Novel Excerpt Contest, Finalist in Tatterhood Review's Novel Excerpt Series
- "Welcome to Fresno": Finalist in Unlimited Literature's 2020 Flash Fiction Contest
- "late bloom": longlisted in Crosswinds' 2020 Poetry Contest
- "Worst-Case Scenario": Finalist in Obra/Artifact’s 2019 Prose Contest
- Further: A Novella and Stories: Finalist for Sundress Publications' 2019 Fiction Contest
- The Women of Dauphine: Finalist in the Fiction: LGBTQ category of the 2019 Best Book Awards, sponsored by American Book Fest; an earlier version of the manuscript was a Finalist in the 2016 William Faulkner - William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition in the Novel category
- Thanks for Nothing: nominee in the Poems/Collection category of the 2019 Goldie Awards, sponsored by the Golden Crown Literary Society
- "Jagged Patches": 3rd place Winner of the Pat Carr Prize, Tidal Journal, 2019
- "Cut": Winner of 2018 Flexible Persona Editors’ Prize, nominee for a 2018 Pushcart Prize
- "Summer School": 2nd place Winner in The Writer’s 2018 Flash Contest, longlisted for Retreat West’s Reunions Flash Contest
- "The Change": Winner of Two Sisters Writing & Publishing’s Contest for February 2018
- "space between": Honorable Mention for the 2017 Gival Press Oscar Wilde Award
- "Scarring": Winner of the 2017 So to Speak Nonfiction Award, 2nd place Winner in the 2017 Pen2Paper Writing Competition
- "Empty Eyes": Finalist in the 2016 William Faulkner - William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition in the Short Story category, Finalist in the New Millennium Writings/Sunshots’ 44th Writing Award Contest
- Further: A Novella: Shortlisted in the 2016 William Faulkner - William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition in the Novella category