Award Nominations

For Poetry and Prose


Elgin Award for Speculative Poetry Books and Chapboooks

2025: Unwilling: Poems of Horror and Darkness (Self Published, 2024)


Rhysling Award for Speculative Single Poems (Short and Long Categories)

2024: LONG - Honorable Mention "Archivist of a Lost World" (Eccentric Orbits 4, Dimensionfold Publishing, 2023) 2023: LONG - Honorable Mention "Living in Rubble" (Eccentric Orbits 3, Dimensionfold Publishing, 2022)

LONG - "Spring, When I Met You (Spring, When I Woke)" (Dreams and Nightmares 121, 2022)

 2022: LONG - "The Corvid-Human Alliance" (Liquid Imagination 48, 2021)

LONG - "Tributes"(Polu Texni, 27 June, 2021)

LONG - "What of Me, Goose Girl? (Or Hard Questions from The Horse Still on the Wall)" (Dreams and Nightmares 119, 2021)

2021: LONG - "Invisible Ink" (Community of Magic Pens, Atthis Arts, 2020) 2020: SHORT - "Objects of Desire" (Dreams and Nightmares 113, 2019)

LONG - "Keep My Course True" (Dreams and Nightmares 112, 2019)

LONG - "Why Not?" (NewMyths 49, 2019)


Dwarf Star Award for Speculative Very Short Poetry

2022: "Fetch" (Departure Mirror 2, 2021)


Pushcart Prize

2024: Gaia on the Steps of Cataclysm (Poem, Eccentric Orbits 4, Dimensionfold Publishing, 2023) 2020: "Look Right" (Poem, Dreams and Nightmares #116, 2019)


Critters Readers Poll/Predators and Editors Readers Poll

2021: Third Place/Positive Future Short Stories "What Hope Might Ask" (Things with Feathers: Stories of Hope, Third Flatiron, 2021)

2016:

Top Ten Finisher/Horror Short Story "What the Rain Brings" (Killing It Softly: A Digital Horror Fiction Anthology of Short Stories (The Best by Women in Horror), Digital Fiction Publishing, 2016) (Tied for tenth, this was a reprint so perhaps not technically eligible but the rules are impossible to find so I'll list it.)


The official Star Trek Strange New Worlds Contest and Anthology for New Writers

2007: Grand Prize Winner "The Smell of Dead Roses" (Strange New Worlds 10, Pocket Books, 2007)


Spinetingler Awards (Crime Fiction)

2007: "Shared Losses" (Shred of Evidence, July 2007)