2025. Pirate’s Alley Faulkner-Wisdom Literary Competition. “The Two Halves of Anne.” Runner-Up, Independent Poem Category.

2025. The Letter Review. “Icarus Boy,” Shortlisted

2025 Carol Houck Smith Fellowship Finalist, Fiction. Elmer & Leonard.

2025. Nicholas Shaffner Award Finalist. Drums, Guitars, Blues & Ghosts

2024. Otis Dees Award, Alabama State Poetry Society, 2nd Place. “Powwow Cycle”

2023. The Word: A Storytelling Sanctuary Mentorship, Top 3 Finalist Adult Fiction. Elmer & Leonard

2021. The Big Moose Novel Prize, Finalist. In the Place Where Frank James is Buried, Just North of Here

2021. The Andrew Glaze Prize for Poetry, Birmingham Southern Arts Journal. “Today is a Strange Day.”

2021. Hackney Literary Award, Poetry. “Today is a Strange Day.”