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Awards

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I'm doing a major overhaul of my website, so you'll be seeing more info getting posted bit by bit.
​I'm waaaay behind in posting about my awards, so I'll be updating this section shortly.
The Rose Queen
2019 finalist for The Wishing Shelf Book Award.
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Gold Award for the YA Fantasy category of the 2019 Literary Classics International Book Awards.
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Fantasy finalist for the 2019 Independent Author Network's (IAN) Book of the Year.
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When to Now: A Time Travel Anthology
Received 1st place in the 2019 Connecticut Press Club Communications Contest in the editing category. 
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Individual stories in the anthology were:
​* finalist for the 2019 WSFA Small Press Award
* Editors' Choice Fourth Quarterly Review 2018 by Bewildering Stories Magazine
* 2019 New England Readers' Choice Finalist
​* 1st place short story winner in the 2019 Connecticut Press Club Communications Contest
Shorts - Poems & Stories
My story "Failing Sacraments" made the shortlist for The Alpine Fellowship.
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My review of To Be a Fae by Tricia Copeland made the 
Editors' Choice Second Quarterly Review at Bewildering Stories.
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My story 
"Finale Fortissimo" made the Editors' Choice Fourth Quarterly Review at Bewildering Stories.
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My poem "Assimilation," published in AFTERMATH: Explorations of Loss and Grief received a Pushcart Prize nomination by Radix Media. The anthology is also currently a Foreword INDIES Award Finalist.
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My short story "Asylum" received an Honorable Mention in the 2016 Roswell Award (story not published).
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My short story "Pillar of Salt" was shortlisted in the Apocalpyse Chronicles Writing Contest at Almond Press.
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My flash fiction story "Thou Shalt" was longlisted in the Equality Writing Contest at Brilliant Flash Fiction (story not published).
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My short story "A Body at Rest" received an Honorable Mention in Allegory Magazine's Issue 27/54 (story not published).
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Toddler Times
Received honorable mention in the 2019 Connecticut Press Club Communications Contest in the graphics category.
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