- 1st place, Bay Area Poets Coalition poetry contest, 2001
- 1st place, Arizona State Poetry Society poetry contest, 2001
- 2nd place, The Storyteller People's Choice Award, 2002
- 3rd place, Writers' Journal Horror/Ghost Story contest, 2004
- 2nd place, AsininePoetry.com Parody Contest, 2006
- 2nd place, AsininePoetry.com Erotic Poems Contest, 2007
- 1st place, Fort Worth Haiku Society winter quarterly contest, 2013
- Dwarf Stars Award, 2015
- 1st place, Green River Writers Writing Contest, Children's Prose category, 2017
- 1st place, Florida State Poets Association Annual Poetry Contest, Haiku category, 2018
- 1st place, Illinois State Poetry Society Contest, Modern Haiku Award category, 2019
- 2nd place, Illinois State Poetry Society Contest, Modern Haiku Award category, 2020