ACCOLADES

2024

Alumni Spotlight
Flagler Magazine
Summer

Member
The de Groot Foundation Courage To Write Grant Selection Committee
March - April

Runner-up (fiction)
Poets & Writers - Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award
July

Writer-in-residence
The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow
May (residency dates TBD - late 2023/early 2024)

Winner - 2023 Iron Horse Book Prize - The Birthright of Sons
Iron Horse Literary Review/Texas Tech University Press
January

First Place Prize in Fiction - “Knots”
Havik anthology (Las Positas College)
May

“Break Up with Corporate” Grant Recipient
Wethos
March

Longlist - BIPOC Creative Writing Scholarship
Gotham Writers’ Workshop
December

Semifinalist - Diverse Voices Screenwriting Contest
WeScreenplay
May

Quarterfinalist - Teen Movie Contest
Color Creative
October

First Round Select - Episodic Lab Screenwriting Contest
MACRO
September

Dear Gotham Letter
Gotham Writer’s Workshop - February newsletter
2024

The Black Male Natural Hair Movement - Video Essay
Added to Cardiff and Vale College’s Anti-Racist Curriculum (Wales)
2023

My Entrepreneur Story
GoSolo
2022

Subject Matter Expert - “Media Writing Essentials”
The New School x Rolling Stone (Yellowbrick)
2021

Board Member, Media & Communications
Polk County Heritage Gallery, 2021 - 2022