"The Apartment at Sunrise Garden Place" named a finalist in the 2024 Hemingway Shorts Literary Journal Competition, The Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park
"Target Markets" long-listed, Federation of British Columbia Writers Short Story Literary Contest, 2023
"An Amateur's Guide to Going Solo"short-listed, Exile Carter V. Cooper Short Story Contest #10 (Emerging Category), 2021, published in associated anthology, 2022. Contest judge and anthology editor: Joyce Carol Oates.
"Ice Created Layer Upon Layer" nominated by Grain for the Pen America Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers, 2021.
"Exiting 911"long-listed, Exile Carter V. Cooper Short Story Contest #9 (Emerging Category), 2020. Contest judge: Joyce Carol Oates.
"Cowbird" placed 3rd in the Federation of British Columbia Writers Flash Fiction Contest in 2019. Contest judge: Angie Abdou.