+ Selected for Best Small Fictions 2024 Anthology for Pears, 2024

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+ Winner of Flash 405 Contest at Exposition Review for Velvet, 2023

 

+ Pushcart Prize nomination, by Variant Lit for Filth, 2022

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+ Best of the Net nomination, by Variant Lit for Filth, 2022

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+ Longlisted for Wigleaf Top 50, The Painted Moth, 2022

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+ Selected for Best Small Fictions 2022 Anthology for Broken Keys, 2022

 

+ Best of the Net nomination, by Roanoke Review for Splintered, 2021

 

+ Best Microfiction nomination, by Parentheses Journal for Divinity and Life and War and Confusion, 2021
 

+Pushcart Prize nomination, by Ghost Parachute for Broken Keys, 2021

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+ Short Story collection, As If You Had a Say, selected as Finalist in Autumn House Press Fiction Prize, 2021

 

+ Short story, The Diving Board, shortlisted for Five South's short story contest, 2021

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+ Best of the Net nomination, by Midway Journal for Muted, 2021

 

+ Flash story, Contained / Not Contained, selected as finalist for Craft's Flash Fiction Award, 2021

 

+ Micro story, Soft to the Touch, shortlisted for Fractured Lit's 100-Word-Story Contest, 2021

 

+ Short Story collection, As If You Had a Say, selected as Finalist in Black Lawrence Press' St. Lawrence Book Award, 2020

 

+ Short Story collection, As If You Had a Say, selected as Finalist in PANK Book Contest, 2020

 

+ Short Story collection, As If You Had a Say, selected as Finalist in Black Lawrence Press' Hudson Prize, 2020

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+ Best of the Net nomination, by Okay Donkey for Trees Like a Way Out, 2020

 

+ Best Small Fictions nomination, by F(r)iction for November 1993 (print only), 2020

+ Pushcart Prize nomination, by Whale Road Review for This is a Full-Rate-Telegram, 2019

 

+ Flash fiction piece, Hineni selected for inclusion in Best Small Fictions 2019 anthology. (Originally published in Longleaf Review)

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+ Pushcart Prize nomination, Bodega Magazine, for Losing the House in D Minor, 2018/2019

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+ Recipient of GAP award from Artist Trust, 2018

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+ Winner of Pen Parentis Fellowship 2018/2019

+ Best Small Fictions nomination, Hypertrophic Lit, for A Man Who Helps the Neighbors, 2019

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+ Runner-up in AWP's Kurt Brown Prize for Fiction, 2018

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+ Finalist in SmokeLong Quarterly's Flash Fiction Contest, 2018

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+ Best of the Net nomination, Midway Journal, for Sticker Book, 2018

 

+ Best of the Net nomination, Atlas + Alice, for Towels, 2018

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+ Best of the Net nomination, The Sunlight Press, for Body of Friendship, or Another Piece on Love, 2018

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+ Best of the Net nomination, jmww, for But it is Dark, 2018

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+ Best of the Net nomination, *82 Review, for Some Sort of Apology, 2018

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+ Runner-Up in Memoir Magazine's Guns & People Essay Contest, 2018

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+ Pushcart Prize nomination, by *82 Review for Some Sort of Apology, 2018

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+ Pushcart Prize nomination, by museum of americana for An American Shopping Cart, 2018

 

+ Best Small Fictions 2018 nomination, by 3Elements Review for When You Shower in Your Clothes, 2018

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+ Nominated by *82 Review for Vestal Review's VERA Award for Some Sort of Apology, 2018

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+ Tin House Winter Workshop, worked with Ramona Ausubel, 2018

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+ Essay, "The Day I Told My Father to Shoot Himself" chosen as an editor's pick: All-Time Best Narratively Memoirs

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+ Finalist in Gigantic Sequins' Flash Fiction Contest, 2017

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+ Finalist in Sunlight Press's Summer Nonfiction Contest, 2017

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+ Finalist in (b)oink's Flash Fiction Contest, 2017

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+ Semi-finalist in American Short Fiction's Short(er) Contest, 2017 and 2018

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+ Winner of Fiction Southeast Hell's Belles Short Fiction Prize, 2016 (for "For the Dachshund Enthusiast")

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+ Featured on Boston Free Radio's Mr. Bear's Violet Hour Saloon, September 2016 | Listen here!

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+ Tin House Summer Writer's Workshop, worked with Rebecca Makkai, 2016       

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+ Winner of Writing x Writers Short Story Contest, 2016

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+ Finalist in Glimmer Train's Very Short Fiction

Contest, Fall 2015

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+ Pen Parentis Fellowship Honorable Mention, 2015/2016

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