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Collection Honors

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2023

Winner

The Granum Prize

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2023

Finalist

Ohio State University Press Non/Fiction Collection Prize

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2023            

Long List          

Dzanc Books Short Story Collection Prize

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2022             

Finalist         

Black Lawrence Press Hudson Prize

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2022             

Finalist            

Press 53 Award for Short Fiction

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2022             

Short List        

The Masters Review Chapbook Open

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2018           

Finalist            

Iowa Short Fiction Award

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Story Honors

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2023              

Selection        

Wigleaf Top 50

Thin-Layer Chromatography Day

First appeared in Pithead Chapel

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2020              

Selection        

Best Small Fictions                

What You Have Been Told

Nominated by Flash Flood Journal

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2019              

Nominee        

Pushcart Prize                            

Just After Joy

Nominated by Cheap Pop

 

2018              

1st Prize          

Kelly Barnhill Flash Fiction Prize                      

Pasarea Paradisului (Birds of Paradise)

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2018              

3rd Prize        

Bridport Prize Flash Fiction Contest

What Real Men Wish They Dreamed

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2018              

Nominee        

Best Microfictions                       

Why Shit Is Still Like This Around Here & Probably Always Will Be 

Nominated by Bath Flash Fiction Award 

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2018              

3rd Prize        

Bath Flash Fiction Award

Why Shit Is Still Like This Around Here & Probably Always Will Be    

              

2018              

Finalist            

SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction

How Leopards Sleep

                                                             

​2017              

1st Prize          

Columbia Journal Winter Fiction Contest

Extra Quiet

Selected by Roxane Gay                                            

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2017

Finalist            

Hemingway Foundation's Hemingway Shorts Contest

Op. 37, No. 1

                          

2017              

Finalist          

Indiana Review Half-K Prize

Exit/b (Terminate Script)

 

2016              

Finalist            

Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Award

Top 7 Bible Facts

 

2015              

1st Prize         

Dromineer Literary Festival Flash Fiction Award       

Peleliu

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2014              

Nominee        

Pushcart Prize       

The Way We Carried Ourselves

Nominated by Southword Journal (Ireland)

 

2013              

1st Prize          

Sean O Faolain Story Prize       

The Way We Carried Ourselves

 

2005              

Nominee        

Best New American Voices        

One Girl

Nominated by Northwestern University's M.A. in Creative Writing                                                      

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Short Lists & Long Lists 

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2019            

Short List          

Bath Flash Fiction Award       â€‹   

Thin-Layer Chromatography Day               

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2018             

Short List

Bridport Prize                            

What You Have Been Told   

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2018             

Long List

Bath Flash Fiction Awards       

Just After Joy   

 

2017             

Short List

Bath Flash Fiction Award           

If I Should Wash Myself with Snow  

 

2017             

Long List 

Bath Flash Fiction Award        

April When They Woo 

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2016             

Long List

Bath Short Story Award              

In the Fall (as Nighthawks)

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2015             

Short List 

Bath Flash Fiction Award          

Wingspan (as Animals)

                                                            

2015             

Long List

Bath Flash Fiction Award        

True Story (as What Was True)   

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2015             

Long List 

Fish Short Story Award        

In the Fall (as Nighthawks)

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Other Honors

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2022                  

Individual Artist Grant

Illinois Arts Council Agency

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2020                  

Guest Instructor

Rutgers Camden MFA

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2019                 

Visiting Writer

Medaille College

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2018                  

Guest Editor

SmokeLong Quarterly
 

2018                  

Mentee

AWP Writer-in-Writer Mentorship Program

(Mentor: Pamela Erens)

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2017

Susannah McCorkle Scholarship in Fiction 

Sewanee Writers' Conference

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2016

Merit Scholarship

Martha's Vineyard Institute for Creative Writing

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2015

Peter Taylor Fellowship

Kenyon Review Summer Writers' Workshop

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2007

Distinguished Thesis Award

Northwestern University's M.A. in Creative Writing

 

 

 

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