Awards & Honors

• 2022 Harambee Literary Prize: First Runner-up  I am pleased to announce “The Brothers Evanger” has received the first runner-up honor for this international award.
• Writer of the Month  I am honored to be selected as “Writer of the Month” for May 2021 by Elizabeth M. Castillo. A video reading of an excerpt from my story “In the Eye of the Beholder” is included in the posting. Ms. Castillo is a writer, poet, and artist based in Paris.
• B.R.A.G Medallion  (2020) for Santa Abella and Other Stories from the Book Readers Appreciation Group

Contest Results

• Heartbreak Woman:  Quarterfinalist – Screencraft’s 2022 Cinematic Short Story Contest
• An Elegy for Esmeralda:  Quarterfinalist – Screencraft’s 2022 Cinematic Short Story Contest
• With a Whimper:  Semifinalist – Tuplip Tree Publishing’s 2021 Stories That Need to be Told Contest
  
• Santa Abella and Other Stories:  4.3 (out of 5) rating – 2020 Writer’s Digest Self-Published Ebook Contest
• The Revivalists:  Quarterfinalist – Screencraft’s 2019 Cinematic Short Story Contest
• Starstruck:  Quarterfinalist – Screencraft’s 2019 Cinematic Short Story Contest