Awards and More - Literary Projects

AWARDS
  • Pushcart Prize, nomination for "Sudden Storm," 2013
  • Fellowship in Literature - Fiction, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, 2003


PRIZES
  • First prize for "And I Am Born to the Sunlit World Again" and honorable mention for "City of Woe,"         Montgomery County Community College, 2014
  • Fourth prize for "Recycling," Montgomery County Community College, 2011
  • Third prize for "Tin Can Talking," Montgomery County Community College, 2010
  • Second prize for "Paradise" and honorable mention for "Daphne Unbound," Montgomery County Community College, 2009
  • Third prize for "Visionary at the Reading" and honorable mention for "Out of the Machine,"         Montgomery County Community College, 2008
  • First prize for "The Magician's Daughter," Philadelphia Writers’ Conference, 2007
  • First prize for "The Magician's Daughter" and honorable mention for "Woman Underwater," Montgomery County Community College, 2007
  • Third prize for "Cranberry Love," Montgomery County Community College, 2005
  • Honorable mention for "The Magician's Daughter," Triplopia Prose Poem Contest, 2005
  • Honorable mention for "Things Not to Do," The College of New Jersey, 2004
  • Fourth prize for "Butterfly House," Montgomery County Community College, 2004
  • First prize for "Cranberry Love," Jerseyworks Second Annual Contest, 2003
  • Fourth prize for "Freeze," Montgomery County Community College, 2003
  • Second prize for "Woman Underwater," Philadelphia Writers’ Conference, 2002
  • First prize for "The Forgetting," Montgomery County Community College, 2002
  • First prize for "Of Clams and Men," Montgomery County Community College, 2001


READINGS
  • Read selected poetry as Coffeehouse Moderator, Montgomery County Community College Writers’ Conference, 2007
  • Presented thesis lecture, Fairleigh Dickinson University, 2007
  • Read short story, Fairleigh Dickinson University, 2006
  • Read poetry, Fairleigh Dickinson University, 2005
  • Read short story, Fairleigh Dickinson University, 2004
  • Read excerpts of short stories, Main Line Arts Center, 2003


OTHER
  • Performance of "Things Not to Do," Writing Aloud series, InterAct Theatre, Philadelphia, 2004