Photo at left: The Blackfly Writers Retreat, 2017. Husband Drew and I are  smack dab in the middle.

Awards: Chapter One Prize Winner 2024, Seven Hills Literary Contest 2024

Published Writings

Short Stories

• What Grows in the Garden Literally Stories (1/20/2017)
• Thelma and Addie Literally Stories (2/21/2017)
• Sturgis Spins a Good One Fiction on the Web (5/4/2020)
• Blue Collar The River (11/18/2020)
• On the Ellen Show The Broadkill Review (1/1/2023)

Self-help

• Find a Sweetheart Soon Self published, available on Amazon

Fiction Reader for the Free State Review and Galileo Press , 2022; The Southeast Review, 2023/2024.

Private Mentoring

I've worked individually with creative writing faculty Mark Winegarder from Florida State University (December 2022 to present) and Karen Tucker, University of South Carolina, Chapel Hill  (2019-2022). 

Conferences     

• Iota Short Prose Conference. Roosevelt Campobello International Park. July 8-1, 2017    
•  AWP Annual Conference and Book Fair, March 7–10, 2018, Tampa, Florida   
• Atlanta Writers Conference, March 9-10, 2019     
• Longleaf Writers Conference, May 14-21, 2022. Seaside, Florida

Workshops

• How (Not) To Pitch A Magazine, Brian Kevin, Managing Editor, Down East magazine. Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance workshop, June 9, 2018
• Unputdownable, Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance workshop, June 16, 2018
• Devil in the Details, Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance workshop, August 18, 2018
• Agents Editors Writers 2108. Belgrade Lakes, ME. September 22, 2018
• MWPA PITCH. Portland. ME. September 29, 2018
• Blackfly Writer’s Retreat. Grand Lakes Stream, ME. May 2 – 5, 2019 
• Marketing for Writers with Allison Pottern Hoch, July 2019
• Blackfly Writers’ Retreat. Online, April 30- May 3, 2020
• Real Talk, Tanya Whiton. Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance, June 2020
• How to Write a Play When You Don’t Want To (Or Feel Like You Can’t or Have No Idea How To Get Started), John Cariani. Blue Hill WORD conference, October 2020
• Electrify Your Fiction with Blair Hurley, Winter 2021. MWPA
• Reading to Revise with Chaya Bhuvaneswar, February 2021  MWPA
• Rewind, Fast Forward, Pause, Play with Maya Shanbhag Land, Spring 2021. MWPA
• Write What You Don’t Know with Evgeniya Dame, August 2021 MWPA
• MWPA PITCH. Online. September 25, 2021
• Marketing for Writers with Allison Pottern Hoch, October 2022

Classes 

• Iota Creative Nonfiction with Penny Guilsinger. Fall 2017 (Online)
• Elements of the Novel, Ginger Moran. Fall 2017 (Online)
• Creative Writing. Wesleyan University (Coursera). The Craft of Plot, Character, Setting and Description, and Style (Online). Fall 2018
• Fiction Technique. Florida State University, Spring 2020
• Perspectives on the Short Story. Florida State University, Summer 2020