The Welkin Prize, Second Place Winner — Scientists are reporting a heartbeat signal in space, April 2023
Retreat West Quarterly Flash Competition, Winner — When the teacher talked about rape and you laughed, March 2023
Reflex Fiction Flash Fiction Competition, Longlisted — The Polygynous Nature of Harbor Seals, January 2023
The Pushcart Prize, Nomination — A Beachcomber’s Guide to Desert Grief, Bath Flash Fiction Award, December 2022
The Great Festival Flash Off, Runner-up — Man Eater, Flash Fiction Festival, December 2022
The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction, Shortlisted — December 2022
QuietManDave Prize for Nonfiction, Winner — Door Slam, 1980; October 2022
Bath Flash Fiction Award, Commended — A Beachcomber’s Guide to Desert Grief, October 2022
Best of the Net, Nomination — Deep in the Heart of Texas, Splonk, 2022
2022 Forge Flash Nonfiction Competition, Longlisted — September 2022
SmokeLong Summer Flash Fiction Competition, Finalist — Hurt Me, August 2022
SmokeLong Summer Microfiction Competition, Semi-finalist — August 2022
Retreat West Quarterly Flash Competition, Longlisted — July 2022
Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions — Ewe, June 2022
Bath Flash Fiction Award, Shortlisted — Forces of Nature, June 2022
National Flash Fiction Day New Zealand Micro Madness, Longlisted — May 2022
2022 Saboteur Awards, Winner — Best Short Story Collection, The Evolution of Birds (Ad Hoc Fiction)
The Best Small Fictions 2022, Selected — Ewe (first published in Cease, Cows)
The Great Flash Fiction Festival Throwdown, Winner — Tomorrow at Cafe La Nuit, Flash Fiction Festival, February 2022
National Flash Fiction Day Micro Competition, Shortlisted — February 2022
The Blue Frog Flash Fiction Prize, Finalist — February 2022
Reflex Fiction Flash Fiction Competition, Longlisted — Seed Money, Winter 2021
The Pushcart Prize, Nomination — Deep in the Heart of Texas, Splonk, 2021
The Best Small Fictions, Nomination — Always Down a Dirt Road, I’m Walking; Bath Flash Fiction Award, 2021
The Pushcart Prize, Nomination — Each Breath a Chain, Janus Literary, 2021
The Pushcart Prize, Nomination — Lessons in Negative Space, Fractured Lit, 2021
The Best Small Fictions, Nomination — Ewe, Cease Cows, 2021
Flash 500, Shortlisted — Third Quarter, November 2021
The Great Festival Flash Off Showstopper Challenge, Winner of Winners — Blue, Flash Fiction Festival, September 2021
2020 Retreat West Awards, Runner Up — Best Overall Flash Fiction, Girls of Summer, September 2021
2020 Retreat West Awards, Shortlisted — Best Flash Fiction Opening Line, Girls of Summer, August 2021
The Great Festival Flash Off Showstopper Challenge, Winner — Blue, Flash Fiction Festival, July 2021
BIFFY 50, Nomination — A Baby Born En Caul Can Never Drown, Janus Literary, July 2021
The Great Festival Flash Off Showstopper Challenge, Winner — Lessons in Attachment Parenting, Flash Fiction Festival, June 2021
Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions — Lions in the Amazon, June 2021
National Flash Fiction Day New Zealand Micro Madness, Shortlisted — You Promise Me the Moon, But You’re No Jimmy Stewart, May 2021
Craft Literary 2020 Creative Nonfiction Award, Finalist — Heirloom Varieties, May 2021
The Great Festival Flash Off Signature Challenge, Winner — Teenage Kicks, Flash Fiction Festival, April 2021
Retreat West Quarterly Flash Contest ‘Bridges’, First Prize — Girls of Summer, March 2021
Janus Literary Story Prize, Shortlisted — A Baby Born En Caul Can Never Drown, March 2021
Bath Flash Fiction Award, Commended — Always Down a Dirt Road, I’m Walking, February 2021
The Pushcart Prize, Nomination — This is How it Starts, National Flash Fiction Day, 2020
Retreat West 2020 Flash Fiction Prize, Longlisted — Sometimes Mommy Tigers Get Sick, December 2020
The Pushcart Prize, Nomination — Trip-trapping, New Flash Fiction Review, 2020
The Best Small Fictions, Nomination — Holy Jesus, There’s a Nun in IKEA, Cheap Pop, 2020
The Bridport Prize in Flash Fiction, Shortlisted — 2020
BIFFY 50 2019-20, Selected — Safety in Numbers, Retreat West
Reflex Fiction Flash Fiction Competition, Longlisted — A Piteraq is an Avalanche of Wind, Summer 2020
National Flash Fiction Day New Zealand Micro Madness, Shortlisted — On Ten Bay Beach, May 2020
Fish Flash Fiction Prize 2020, Longlisted — April 2020
My Fave Five: March 2020, selected by Jude Higgins — Bending Genres Blog
National Flash Fiction Day Micro Competition, First Place — When Neil Armstrong Walks on the Moon, 2020
BIFFY 50 Microfiction Competition, Highly-Commended — My Dog Hasn’t Shit in Days, February 2020
Bath Flash Fiction Award, Shortlisted — Pill Babies, February 2020
Retreat West Monthly Microfiction Competition, Second Place — Safety in Numbers, January 2020
SmokeLong Quarterly Flash Fiction Fellowship, Finalist — December 2019
Best Microfictions, Nomination — Havasu Falls, National Flash Fiction Day, 2019
The Best Small Fictions, Nomination — Here is the Church, Flash Flood Journal, 2019
The Bridport Prize in Flash Fiction, Shortlisted — 2019
Best of the Net, Nomination — You Don’t Have to Feel It, Barren Magazine, 2019
Bath Flash Fiction Award, Longlisted — Waxing After Waning, June 2019
National Flash Fiction Day Micro Competition, Second Place Winner — Havasu Falls, June 2019
Fiction Editor’s Pick, Barren Magazine, Issue 8 — You Don’t Have to Feel It, April 2019
Bath Flash Fiction Award, Shortlisted — Women Get Hungry, February 2019
Little Bird Contest, Runner-up — Self-sufficient Women, judged by Neil Smith, May 2015
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