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Please browse my work below.
Essays "Roads Under Repair," "Grassy Knoll Picnic" and "Why I Don't See Her Anymore" performed at Literary Death Match, World Cafe Live, Philadelphia, November  7, 2011.
 
Essay "Why I Don't See Her Anymore" finalist in Opium Magazine's 7-Line Story Contest, 2011.
 
Essay "That Counting Steps Nonsense" in Brevity, 2011.
 
Essay "The Groovy Blue Dragon" in Concisely Magazine #4, October 2010.
 
Essay "Night Diving" in Philadelphia Stories, September 2010.
 
Essay "The Quarter Million Dollar Chicken Filet" in The Book of Worst Meals, Serving House Press, June 2010.
 
Essay "All the Leaves are Brown" in Perigee Vol 7 No 3, April 2010.
 
Essay "Family Stew" (finalist, 500-word memoir contest) in Opium Magazine 8: The Infinity Issue, May 2009.
 
Essay "The Head Clown" in Writers on the Job, and also at ESCENE, September 2008.
 
Finalist, Opium Magazine 500-word memoir contest, October 2007.
 
Final round, New Millenium's '07 summer fiction competition.
 
Runner-up, first (and only) Annual Microfiction Slam, Voices and Visions Bookstore, Philadelphia, November 2006.
 
Short story, "Fatigues of the Day," Philadelphia Writers Conference winners anthology, April 2004.
 
Novel excerpt, "Sea of Storms," Philadelphia Writers Conference winners anthology, April 2004.
 
Novel excerpt, Echoes of Light," Philadelphia Writers Conference winners anthology, April 2004.
 
Winning entry in NJ Wordsmith competition performed by Unlimited Potential Theater Company of NJ, January 2004.
 
Two short stories in Cerebellum, fall 2003.
 
Second place in screenplay, Philadelphia Writers Conference (later published in the winner's anthology), June 2002.
 
First place in historical novel, Philadelphia Writers Conference, June 2001.
 
Honorable mention in short story, Philadelphia Writers Conference, June 2001.
 
Short story published in Beyond the Seven Bridges, April 2001.
 
Poem published in New Century Voices, September 2000.
 
Creative nonfiction winner, Words on the Wall competition, Philadelphia Writers Conference, June 2000.
 
Honorable mention in humorous essay, Philadelphia Writers Conference, June 2000.
 
Honorable mention in literary short story, Philadelphia Writers Conference, June 2000.
 
Honorable mention in literary short story, Philadelphia Writers Conference, June 1999.
 
Honorable mention in advanced novel, Philadelphia Writers Conference, June 1999.
 
Short story published in Romance Recipes for the Soul, Pisces Press, June 1999.