Excerpt from In Circling Flight (upcoming from Brighthorse Books)
NEW SQUARE, the journal of the Sancho Panza Literary Society
Fall 2020, Volume 3, Issue 1
"The Wandering the World: A Prequel to Oscar Wilde's 'The Star-Child'"
New Square, Vol 2, Issue 1, Fall 2019
New Square, Vol 2, Issue 1, Fall 2019
"Settling"
Short-listed for the 2016 Colm Tóibín International Short Story Award, Ireland; published in Mountains Piled Upon Mountains: Appalachian Nature Writing in the Anthropocene, ed. by Jessica Cory, West Virginia University Press, 2019.
"The Visits"
Long-listed for Fish Publishing Short Memoir Prize 2018; honorable mention, Asheville Writers' Workshop Hard Times contest, 2018.
“The Die is Cast” and “An Apology Tour”
Published in Who Want the World Like It Is? A 2016 Election Anthology,
Birds Piled Loosely Press, January 2017.
"Strangers On The Road"
Published in Circa: A Journal of Historical Fiction, April 2016; part on the novel In Circling Flight (Brighthorse Books 2021).
"Flight"
Finalist for the 2015 Dana Award for the Novel.
"Dear John, I've Fallen for a Dog"
Short-listed for Fish Publishing 2013/14 Short Story Prize; published in Chautauqua (UNCW), Volume 11, 2014, under the title “Sirius"; part of the novel In Circling Flight (Brighthorse Books 2021).
“All God's Children Gonna Take A Ride”
Awarded second place in the 2014 Virginia Golden Nib short story competition (chapter level); designated a “Highly Recommended” work in Ireland’s 2014 Sean O’Faolain International Short Story Prize competition; published in the Anthology of Appalachian Writers (Shepherd), Volume 7, 2015; nominated for a 2017 Pushcart Prize; part of novel In Circling Flight (Brighthorse Books 2021).
Long-listed for Anam Cara Short Fiction Contest (2012); published in Mom Egg Review, Volume 12 (2014).
Won first place, Writerhouse/C-Ville Creative Nonfiction Contest (2014), and published in C-Ville; part of the novel In Circling Flight (Brighthorse Books 2021).
Long-listed for Fish Publishing Short Memoir Contest (2013); published in Portland Review, web feature (2015).
“She'd Like A Fish, Without Water”
Published in The Washington Post, Metro section, “With Apologies to Art Linkletter” column (2008).