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• Featured Writer, Catholic Literary Arts Newsletter, May 2025

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• Honorable Mention, Named to the WOW Top 20, Women on Writing (WOW), 2025 Creative Nonfiction Essay Q2 Contest

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• Winner of The Poetry Society of South Carolina 2025 John Edward Johnson Poetry Prize

 

• Honorable Mention, The Poetry Society of South Carolina 2025 DuBose and Dorothy Heyward Society Poetry Prize

 

• Nominated for the 2024 Pushcart Prize in Fiction, moonShine Review

 

• Winner of The North Carolina Writers’ Network Randall Jarrell 2024 Poetry Competition

 

• Semi-Finalist Lit/South 2024 Award for Poetry, Litmosphere

 

• Honorable Mention, The Poetry Society of South Carolina 2023 Robert Starkey Flythe, Jr. Poetry Contest

 

• Finalist, North Carolina Poetry Society 2023 Poet Laureate Award

 

• Finalist, North Carolina Poetry Society 2023 Light Verse Award Award

 

• Honorable Mention, 2023 Carolina Prize for Writing, Franklin County Arts Council & Carolina Piedmont Writers Guild

 

• Nominated for 2022 Best Short Fiction, Petigru Review

 

• Finalist, 2021 Ron Rash Award in Poetry, Broad River Review

 

• Nominated for the 2021 Pushcart Prize in Poetry, Gyroscope Review