humble brags
Winner, Meridian‘s 2024 Short Prose Prize, Issue No. 48, May 2024
• “No eulogy,” a short piece revisiting a moment in time with Uncle Larry. • Prize announcement can be found here.
Winner, PRISM international’s Creative Nonfiction Contest, Jan. 2024
• “Young Bird,” an 1100-word piece on parenting and how a youngest child fits into the family constellation through the lens of nature docs on barbarous birds. • Suzannah Showler’s judge’s essay can be found here.
Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Banff, Alberta, Apr./May 2024
• Selected writer-in-residence for two weeks at Banff’s Spring Thematic on Form and Constraint.
PLAYA Writing Residency in Summer Lake, Oregon, Jan. 2024
• Selected writer-in-residence for one month at PLAYA’s arts and sciences colony.
other writing news
Peatsmoke Journal, Oct. 2024
• One short piece: “I-5.”
Potomac Review, Issue 75, Fall 2024
• One poem: “Whyte Beach.”
Grain, Issue 51.4, Summer 2024
• One poem: “No more tapioca.” • Contributor spotlight.
The Malahat Review, Issue 227, Summer 2024
• Two poems: “Misc” and “Vultures.”
New World Writing Quarterly, Jul. 2024
• Five poems: “Paintings,” “Cells,” “You tell me you will not tell me because…,” “Love poem written at 23, revised by the middle-aged gardener I have become,” and “Wavelength.”
Punt Volat, Flight 8, Summer 2024
• One poem: “The crabs of Christmas Island.”
The Dalhousie Review, Issue 103.3
• “House Fire,” a 4200-word fiction piece based on my novel Junior Slump.
Queen’s Quarterly, Volume 131.2, Summer 2024
• One poem: “Whatever is left of my figs are yours.”
Humber Literary Review, Volume 12, Issue 1, Spring + Summer 2024
• Three poems: “An aside,” “Shifts,” and “After I walked you home and still had no courage to kiss you.”
Semi-finalist, American Short Fiction‘s American Short(er) Fiction Contest, Jun. 2024
• For three short pieces under 1000 words.
The Masters Review, Jun. 2024
• “Don’t Smile,” a 4000-word essay on my first year of teaching.
Flash Fiction Forum in San Jose, California, May 8, 2024
• Read the poem “Henry turns one hundred” at the curated hybrid event.
Jabberwock Review, Issue 44.2, Winter/Spring 2024
• “Invitations,” a 3000-word creative nonfiction piece on Nixon’s grudge with my father.
Acta Victoriana, Issue 148.1, Apr. 2024
• Two poems: “For richer or for poorer” and “To the capitalist time is money but to me time is time, he said.”
The Palisades Review, Apr. 2024
• “The distance between us was once the thickness of a floor,” a short prose piece.
Longlist, The Masters Review‘s Prose Chapbook Open, Apr. 2024
• For a collection of essays and short stories.
Queen’s Quarterly, Volume 131.1, Spring 2024
• One poem: “Haifa.”
The Nashwaak Review, Volume 50/51, Mar. 2024
• Three poems: “Diagnosis,” “Fitting,” and “Changing Back.”
Semi-finalist, Black Lawrence Press‘s Black River Chapbook Competition, Feb. 2024
• Essay collection chosen as semifinalist out of nearly 800 entries.
Cherry Tree: A National Literary Journal @ Washington College, Issue 10, Feb. 2024
• The poems “Henry turns one hundred” and “Retrievable” published in the “Literary Shade” section. • (Issue 10 launch party reading on Feb. 29.)
forthcoming words
The Southern Review (forthcoming, Spring 2025)
• One poem: “Photographic.”
The Normal School (forthcoming)
• “The Third-Best Clown in New York,” a 4400-word essay on experiences with my former roommate, a professional clown.
Prairie Fire (forthcoming)
•”Extinction Event of a Personal Nature,” a 4400-word essay on parenting, getting lost on a mountainside with my children, and space aliens.
Chautauqua (forthcoming, Summer 2025)
• One poem: “Joker.”
Queen’s Quarterly (Volume 131.3, Fall 2024)
• One poem: “Galilee.”
J Journal (forthcoming, Spring 2025)
• One poem: “Post.”