Los Angeles Short Film Awards June 2026 – The Reader – Best Stage Play and Three Ice Cubes – Best Psychological Screenplay https://bestfilmawards.com/winners/los-angeles-short-film-award

My story “The Only Act She Kept” was named a finalist in Story Unlikely’s 2026 International Short Story Contest, out of more than 1,400 submissions. My story “The First Cell” placed second in the same contest. I need to say where the finalist came from. My mother has Alzheimer’s. She has always loved Alexander Calder’s…

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Before Elizabeth Bennet ever sparred with Darcy, there was a teenage Jane Austen filling notebooks with stories so anarchic, so wickedly funny, so shockingly modern that scholars would later compare them to Beckett and Pinter. Between the ages of eleven and seventeen she wrote twenty-nine works of savage wit and absurdist comedy — and they…

The Red Migration (Story Unlikely), Tangent Online Reading list logo compliments of Story Unlikely Editor, Danny Hanker Three Ice Cubes – Semifinalist Short Screenplay – BlueCat Screenplay Competition – 40 of 1091 shorts The Six Loops of Scott & Capital Crimes – Semifinalist Screenplay – Pitch Now Screenplay Competition The Six Loops of Scott &…

My short screenplays CUT FLOWERS and THREE ICE CUBES both made it to the Quarterfinals of the BlueCat Screenplay Competition—105 selected from 1,097 submissions. Honored to have both stories recognized.

Named to Tangent Online’s 2025 Recommended Reading List https://view.flodesk.com/emails/68434f72c32ff7e30b46cebb

“Milk Teeth” forthcoming in the 10th Anniversary Issue of Ink in Thirds, Spring 2026.

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