ForeWord Review's 2009 Book of the Year Award for Historical Fiction
Nominee for 2010 Alabama Library Association's Author Awards
"Jim"
winner, 2008 Chattahooche Valley Writer's Conference short story contest
"Freedom Manor"
winner of 2006 Eugene Walters Writers Festival Termite Hall Screenplay
"The Other Gold"
winner of Eugene Walters Writers Festival William March Short Story award
"Trouble"
honorable mention at Sidewalk Film Festival’s SideWrite Contest
Snow Dancers of Veld
second place at 1998 Del-Rey’s Online Writer’s Contest - First Chapters Novel Contest
"Alabama Dreams in Black & White"
honorable mention at2007 Alabama Writer’s Conclave (Published in Whatever Remembers Us, An Anthology of Alabama Poems--The collection was named 2008 Southern Independent Booksellers Award Finalist for Poetry).
"Sea"
winner Magic City Writer's Short Story Contest (circa 1980)