Short Stories & Poetry

PUBLISHED WORKS

”How to Say Goodbye” - published as 2nd place winner in Flash 500 contest, March 2023. Also selected as a finalist in New Millenium Writing Awards 55.

”Remember this Morning” - short story published by The Los Angeles Review in December 2022.

“A Night to Remember” - flash fiction published by The Los Angeles Review in June 2022.

”One Hundred Thousand Steps” - short story published by Kallisto Gaia Press in Ocotillo Review Volume 6.1, Winter 2022. Honorable mention in annual short story contest in 2022.

”The Reburial” - published in Driftwood Press 2023 Anthology as a runner-up in their annual short story contest. Available here, pages 93-106.

“Lost and Found” - published in Dogwood Literary Journal Spring 2025 edition. Also selected as finalist in Tucson Festival of Books 2025 Short Fiction Contest.

“Before it Gets Cold “- winner of 2025 Slippery Elm Literary Journal’s annual short story contest. Published in 2025.

“Shooting Threes and Eating Candy” - published in 2009 as winner of Rufus on Fire’s 2009 basketball short fiction contest.

“Two Dollars a Door” - poem published in 2025 as part of the anthology, Screaming at America, Volume 2—An Anthology of Disobedience.

“Preschool Drop-off on a Monday Morning” - flash fiction to be published in the Los Angeles Review in late-2025.

FINALISTS & HONORABLE MENTIONS - UNPUBLISHED AS OF JUNE 2025

“We Used to Hunt Whales” - finalist for 2024 Prime Number Magazine Award and 2024 Tucson Festival of Books Short Fiction Contest.

”Mother, Mother” - shortlisted in 2022 Write by the Sea competition in Kilmore Quay, Ireland.

“A Misunderstanding” - finalist in Tucson Festival of Books 2023 Short Fiction Contest.

”The Letter” - honorable mention in Writer’s Digest 2022 Annual Short Story Competition. Also selected as finalist in Tucson Festival of Books 2023 Short Fiction Contest.

“Sunsets on the Pier” - finalist in New Letters’ 2022 Robert Day Award for fiction. Also selected as finalist in Tucson Festival of Books 2023 Short Fiction contest.

“Halley’s Comet” - long listed in Fish Publishing’s 2022 Short Story Contest. Also selected finalist in Tucson Festival of Books 2023 Short Fiction Contest.

“One More Jump” / “Once is Enough” / “Things Burn in the Country” - three short stories all selected as finalists in Tucson Festival of Books 2024 Short Fiction Contest.