2022

Writers of the Future:
Honorable Mention Fourth Quarter 2022: A SHADE OF GRAY -) I forgot to enter something for the third quarter)

Pacific Northwest Writers Association Literary Contest:
2nd place for an earlier draft of my current manuscript, THE UNRAVELING OF EMMA HILL

91st Annual Writer’s Digest Competition—Genre category: Honorable Mention for HOME IS WHERE YOUR ROOTS GROW

Pacific Northwest Writers Association Contest:
Finalist for THE UNRAVELING OF EMMA HILL (early draft)

Writers of the Future:
Honorable Mention Second Quarter 2022: THE TRUTH OF BLACK ANNIS

Writers of the Future:
Silver Honorable Mention First Quarter 2022: HOME IS WHERE YOUR ROOTS GROW

Ink and Insights: was JUST A LITTLE PUSH—now THE UNRAVELING OF EMMA HILLl (early draft)
4th place out of 116 entries

2021

90th Annual Writer’s Digest Competition—Genre category: Honorable Mention for HER CHOICE

Long-Listed: Pulp Literature’s Hummingbird Flash Fiction contest

Bram Stoker Award nomination for the anthology Not All Monsters—my short story: UNFETTERED, closed out the anthology

2020

Rate My Story: Awesome Openers opening chapters contest:
2nd Place: SERIOUSLY, UNIVERSE? by Leslie Wibberley

Winner: First Page Literature’s First Page contest for my novelette, THE POISON GARDEN

2019

Writer’s Digest Popular Fiction Competition: First place in the Romance category for my short story, JUST A LITTLE PUSH

Longlisted: Pulp Literature’s Raven Short Story contest

88th Annual Writer’s Digest Competition:
Honorable Mention Print/Online Article category for JUST HOW IMPORTANT IS YOUR BOOK’S FIRST PAGE

Long-listed: Chanticleer International Novel Writing Contest for  SERIOUSLY, UNIVERSE?

Finalist: Wis RWA Fab Five Contest, for an early draft of my speculative woman’s fiction manuscript, NEVER TOO LATE

2018

Long-listed: Pulp Literature’s Raven Short Story Contest.

87th Annual Writer’s Digest Competition:                                                                                        -Honourable Mention Genre Category for ATTEMPTED MURDER

Winner: Creative Ink Festival’s Flash Fiction Contest for STONECOLD

Long-listed: Pulp Literature’s Bumblebee Flash Fiction Contest

2017

86th Annual Writer’s Digest Competition:
-1st place Genre Category for A NORTH WIND
-8th place Magazine Feature Article.

Ink and Insights 2017: SERIOUSLY, UNIVERSE?
-12th place out of 152 entries Master Category
-15th place out of 152 entries Apprentice category

Long-listed: Pulp Literature’s Hummingbird Flash Fiction Contest

Short-listed: Pulp Literature’s Bumblebee Flash Fiction Contest.

2016

85th Annual Writer’s Digest Competition:
-Honourable Mention Magazine Feature Article Category.

2015

84th Annual Writer’s Digest Competition:
-6th place Magazine Feature Article Category.