Massive congratulations to my sweetie for being nominated by Guesthouse for a Pushcart Prize for her soon to be published short story, “The Ailments of Thomas Pepys”!!! Your third pushcart nomination, one in poetry, two in fiction. You are so awesome! ❤
I’m thrilled to have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by a member (or members) of the Board of Contributing Editors! Thank you!!! It was such an honor to have my poem “It’s Something People in Love Do” appear in the 2018 edition.
My poem “Waves Frozen Like Wrinkles on Dog Skin” has been nominated for a 2020 Pushcart Prize by the Raleigh Review, where it appeared in their Spring 2019 issue. Thanks so much Bryce Emley and the rest of the Raleigh Review crew!
You can read the poem for free online in the archive for the issue HERE.
Holy moly!!! My second poetry book manuscript has WON the 2019 Elixir Press Antivenom Poetry Award. Thank you judge Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis! Thank you Dana Curtis! And thank you to everyone who has been supportive and encouraging on my journey to get my second poetry book published–I am truly grateful. It’s so incredibly, heart-thumpingly delightful that “If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun” has found a home at Elixir Press!!!
Gratified to hear that the manuscript of my second poetry book was just named a finalist in the Burnside Review Press Book Contest. Congratulations to the winner Larissa Szporluk!
The public announcement about this year’s Meek Awards from The Florida Review, in which my lyric essay “Root That Mountain” won for the creative nonfiction category. Thank you Florida Review editors for this honor. I’m especially delighted because I’ve never submitted my nonfiction for any awards, and to have received this without entering for it means so much to me. An added jolt of very welcome good creative nonfiction energy!
I’m thrilled to learn that my lyric essay “Root That Mountain” has been awarded the 2018 Meek Award for Creative Nonfiction from The Florida Review. This award recognizes the best non-contest, non-solicited work published by the journal in 2018. Thank you Lisa Roney and the rest of The Florida Review editors and staff for this honor!
I’m thrilled to be nominated for a Pushcart Prize again this year. It was a dream come true to have my poem “It’s Something People in Love Do” appear in the 2018 edition.
Delighted to hear that the manuscript of my second poetry book, “Gullier,” was selected as a semi-finalist in The Journal’s Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize. And huge congratulations to the winner Katie Condon and the other runners up and finalists!
Delighted to learn that my poetry book manuscript was a semi-finalist in Conduit‘s Minds on Fire Book Prize…and the collaborative poetry book manuscript I wrote with Dustin Nightingale was a finalist!
Thank you Conduit Magazine, and congratulations to the winner Jeffrey Morgan!