3rd place finalist, Baltimore Screenwriting Competition, 2024: An Absolutely Stupid Idea (That Just Might Work)

Inaugural Winner of the Mark McColloch Endowed Teaching Chair, CCBC, 2022

3rd place finalist, Baltimore Screenwriting Competition, 2021: Abolition

Top Ten, Sports Genre, 2020 Creative Screenwriting Emerging Screenwriters Competition: Rock and Roll Soccer

2nd place, Features Category, Baltimore Screenwriting Competition, 2020: King of the Freaks

Fellowship Winner, Screenplay Lab, Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund, Johns Hopkins University, 2020: King of the Freaks

"Q" Travel Nonfiction Honorable Mention, Storyhouse.org, 2019​

Semifinalist, Screencraft Family Friendly Screenwriting Competition, 2018, Spitfire

Finalist, International Screenwriting Association—Stowe Story Labs Fellowship, 2018, Spitfire

"You Can't Go Home Again, Again." Winners Circle, Storyhouse.org, 2017

1st place winner, Travel Nonfiction Category, Storyhouse.org, 2017: “A Beautiful and Haunted Tune”

1st place winner, Features Category, Baltimore Screenwriting Competition, 2017: Children of Disobedience

1st place winner, Features Category, Baltimore Screenwriting Competition, 2016: Spitfire

Fellowship Winner, Screenplay Lab, Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund, Johns Hopkins University, 2016: Spitfire

"On the Trail of the Tyrant." Travel Nonfiction, Runner-Up, Storyhouse.org, 2014.

Individual Artist Award, Fiction (Maryland State Arts Council), 2006: Root That Mountain Down (novel)