Phoebe Spring 2025 Fiction Contest Runner Up for short story “Everyone is Going to Tomorrow” judged by Halle Hill.
“Family and coming of age stories are ubiquitous to all yet deeply unique to each individual. Yet, Everyone is Going to Tomorrow read with a tight and bubbling sense of existential early 20s dread I found to be spot on, expansive, and piercing. I found myself thinking about love, the limits of it, family, and what comes after us long after reading.”
~ Halle Hill, contest judge, author of Good Women
2024 Driftwood Press Adrift Short Story Contest Winner for short story “Anastasia” judged by Dean Bakopoulos.
“’Anastasia’ lyrically laments parental powerlessness, the special brand of sorrow reserved for the bracing fact that we are fragile and finite no matter how strong and eternal our love for our children feels. It tells a simple, surreal story through the point of view of a parent preparing for the worst amid the slow crush of an inexplicable global emergency, one that threatens not only his daughter, but the power of science itself. With both lyricism and suspense, this story wrestles with the unspeakable, and captures the loneliness of anticipatory grief in a new and profound way.”
~ Dean Bakopoulos, contest judge, author of Please Don’t Come Back From the Moon
2024 Driftwood Press in House Contest Quarterfinalist for short story “The Stray”.