Nominated among six finalists for the prestigious Pushcart Prize 2019 for a single poem, Fear of Fire, Lower East Side, 1966.
Three poems, including Fear of Fire, Lower East Side, 1966, for which I placed third in the national Poetry Matters Project contest, 2017. Online reading.
Third place tie, Santa Fe Reporter, Riding at Supper Time Where Rich Folks Live.
March 2020.
A novel, Bedford Forrest Rides Again, Southern noir, redneck nightmare manhunt genre, E-book and paperback, independently published through Amazon KDP, September 2017. Estimated sales, 300. This is a manhunt story with a twist. In 1984, Travis Lafayette Boudin, the local sheriff in Crosstown, rural east Texas, investigates the murder of a teenage boy found half buried at the bank of the nearby Navasota River. The cause of the boy’s death is a mystery that deepens when Boudin’s search leads to the discovery of more bodies of unidentified boys around the South with disturbing signs like that of the anonymous ‘River Boy” - a pit in the vertebrae, possibly made by a Civil War era bayonet.
My Friend the Zodiac Killer, non-fiction, really, The Storyteller, Sept. 09
Searching for The Graves of My Ancestors; The Kerr’s Creek Massacres (Lexington, Virginia area, 1700s), creative non-fiction, family history essay, published in 2014 by The Mountain Laurel, a regional digest published in Asheville, NC, featuring the lives of early settlers in Appalachia. Included as the final chapter in my 400 plus page memoir.
Short story, fiction, Cold Storage, snowbound horror. Young girls are being slaughtered and their bodies stored in the cold storage locker. Everyone suspects the mentally disturbed son of one of the town’s adults. No one suspects the pastor until the new pastor appears and reveals that he’s the only pastor authorized to lead the congregation. Published online by Dime Show Review, April 7, 2018, and paperback, Volume 3, Issue 1 – April 11, 2019.
Transylvania. An Adventure in Old Europe, published October 2022 in the anthology of SouthWest Writers Diversity of Expression writing contest in the category of Travel Article.
Café Roma, 1988, a poem, second place, Books on the Bosque, Bosque Arts poetry contest, Clinton, Texas, November 2022.
Honorable Mention
New Millennium Writings, Nonfiction Award, 2015, for as revised version of My Friend the Zodiac Killer.
A Winter Night in Santa Fe, a poem, November 2022, Books on the Bosque, Bosque Arts poetry contest, November 2022, Clinton, Texas.
Reunion at Hotel Meurice [1974], published October 2023 in the anthology Woven Pathways of SouthWest Writers Diversity of Expression writing contest in the category of fiction. A chance encounter between an American Jewish graduate student and a former German Wehrmacht officer leads to the officer inviting the student to dinner at the Hotel Meurice. The student is wary and skeptical, but the encounter leads to the revelation that the officer heroically rescued many Jews who were assembled at the railway station for transport to Nazi death camps. A second guest appears: the collaborator with the Nazis who tried to thwart the officer’s rescue efforts.
Blossom Ladies, a shortened version (3 thousand words) of a longer nonfiction story. Published October 2024 in the anthology Mosaic Voices of SouthWest Writers Diversity of Expression writing contest in the category of memoir. A day in the life of my elderly mother in the rural east Texas hamlet of Blossom.
Shortlisted
Fish Publishing, Ireland, 2015 short story contest, Cold Storage and A Reunion at Hotel Meurice, 1974 (top 103 of 1,575 submissions.)
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