2020
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Malibu Burning named a Finalist for the National Indie Excellence Awards
2019
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Malibu Burning named Best Historical Nonfiction by “Best of LA.”
2018
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L.A.’s longest running spoken words series, The New Short Fiction Series, selected four of his short stories to be presented and read by professional actors.
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Admitted to the Tin House Winter Writer’s Workshop
2017
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The panel he created and chaired, Emerging from the Slush: How to Get Your Short Story Published, was presented at AWP.
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Admitted to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.
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The writers group he founded, the Malibu Writers Circle, was selected as a presenter for Lit Crawl L.A.
2016
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His story, “A Dish Best Served Warm,” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
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Winner of the upstreet short fiction scholarship at the 2016 VCFA Postgraduate Writers’ Conference.
