The Writing Life Scholarship – Winter 2014 – Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing
2013 HOLT Medallion Award of Merit – Historical category – Virginia Romance Writers – Keowee Valley
March 2011 – Full Scholarship from The Sun Magazine – Wildacres Retreat, “Into the Fire: The Sun Celebrates Personal Writing”
Quarter-Finalist – 2011 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Contest – Keowee
2009 Key West Literary Seminar: “Historical Fiction and the Search for Truth” – Scholarship (unable to attend)
February 2008 – Full Fellowship – Vermont Studio Center
2007-2008 North Carolina Arts Award in fiction – The North Carolina Arts Council
2007 October Writer-in-Residence – Full Fellowship – The Montana Artists Refuge
First Place – Historical Fiction – 2007 Paul Gillette Novel Contest – Pikes Peak Writers
Honorable Mention – 2007 Florida First Coast Novel Contest
Third Place – 2007 Literary Awards Contest – The Santa Fe Writer’s Project – Essay – Robert Olen Butler, Judge
Best in Issue – 2005 – The Petigru Review (formerly Catfish Stew, Vol. III) – Poems
Summer 2005 – Vermont Studio Center – Partial Fellowship (unable to attend)
