- "Just Because You're Paranoid": Honorable Mention for the 2022 New Millennium Writing Award in Flash Fiction
- "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 The Peauxdunque Review's 2020 Words and Music Writing Competition in the Creative Nonfiction category, nominated for a 2021 Pushcart Prize and a 2022 Best of the Net Award 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, Finalist in Button Eye's Novel Chapter Contest, longlisted in the Stockholm Writers Festival 2022 First 5 Pages Prize. The author was also admitted into Tin House, the Key West Literary Seminar, and Writers in Paradise on the strength of this project.
- "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 contract with Sundress Publications in their 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 the 2018 Flexible Persona Editors’ Prize, nominated 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