"The Fall of the House of Usher: An Adaptation" Prizewinner of the Art of Adaptation Festival, City Lit Theater Company, August 2007
"Sebastian in Columbus" (staged reading), Illinois Philological Association, Annual Conference, April 2007
Publication
"A Love Story for Two Characters/Four Personalities" in Rockhurst Review 20 (Spring 2007)
Excerpts
From "365 Stories for the Edification of Children, With Additional Stories for Special Occasions, And Morals Applicable for All" – a finalist for the Calvino Prize (2006), sponsored by the University of Louisville
"Urban Renewal" in The Abacot Journal (1 April 2008).
"Forget Not All That Has Been Accomplished" in The Cupboard 15 (Midsummer 2007)
"Tragedy as Cake" in The Southeast Review 25.1 (Fall 2006) – A finalist for the 2006 World's Best Short Short Story Contest, judged by Pulitzer Prize Winning Author Robert Olen Butler