RECOGNITION

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POETRY

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Blue Crystal Lit — "Christmas Rings" contest, awarded 5th place for poem Joseph, Issue 14, January 2025.

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National Federation of State Poetry Societies — 2024 annual poetry contests: honorable mention (but not published) for poem Quarry in the Prouty Memorial Award contest.  

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Black Fox Literary Magazine — poem Eulogy for Mikey longlisted (but not published) in the “Rhapsody of Regret” contest, Issue 26, March 2024.

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Wingless Dreamer Publisher —“Symphony of Seasons” contest WINNER, Volume 2, Issue 2, September 2023, for Calendar haiku.  

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Nat1 Publishing LLC —"The Skewies, An Award Anthology,"June 2023, honorable mention in the Bukowski category for poem Bananas.

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Pushcart Prize 2020 nominee — North Carolina Poetry Society, Nov 2020, for Nam, Man.  Poem was also published in their annual Pinesong Awards magazine as WINNER of the “Courage” category. 

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Pinesong Awards — Finalist for ‘NC Poet Laureate award’ for poem Frank O’Hara Gets Dirty in Bull City.  Recognized via online virtual meeting at NC Poetry Society’s awards virtual ceremony, May 2020.  NCPS does not publish runners-up.  Same poem published later by Salvation South, March 2023.

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Wingless Dreamer Publisher —"Snowflakes and Misteltoes" contest finalist for After the D&C, December 2021.

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Digging Through the Fat — featured poet February 28, 2020 for 3 weeks, linking to Welcome to a Rock at Tiny Seed Literary Journal and Six Haikus at Dream Noir.

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Poetry in Plain Sight — poster contest, NC Poetry Society, November 2019, for Burning Bed.  Posters placed in various public spaces for one month each throughout the state of NC.

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Selected to give a poetry reading as part of the West End Poetry Festival in Carrboro NC, October 2019, at Cat’s Cradle “Back Room” music/entertainment venue.  ​

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Selected to give a poetry reading as part of the Evenings at ArtsPlace literary series in Lexington, KY, 1987.  A city-wide juried competition in the Lexington Art Center.  

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PROSE

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Best Microfiction Anthology 2024 nominee — by The Prose Poem online literary magazine for George’s Dream. 

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PHOTOGRAPHY 

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Best of the Net Anthology 2024 nominee — by the Ilanot Review (Israel), from the 2022 “Wants” Issue, for the photo Sweet Boots.

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COVER PHOTOS

• Hello in there — Nat1 LLC’s Audience Askew Literary Journal, Volume 1, Issue 2, Fall 2022.           

• Great Blue Heron — Heron Clan IX, August 2022.  Katherine James books.

• Rain Cells — The Moving Force, May 2021.