Recent Poetry and Screenplay Wins

Recently learned one of my poems was short-listed, and two of them long-listed, for the 2023 Fish Publishing Poetry Prize (Cork, Ireland), judged by former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins. Fish is doing God’s own work. It’s an inspiration and an avenue to writers everywhere. – FRANK McCOURT (Pulitzer winner, author of Angela’s Ashes)

In other news:

I was selected as a finalist in the latest Poetry International Chapbook Competition for my chapbook These Are My Psalms Now, and they’ll be publishing my poem It Was the Coffee in the Mornings online. I’ll announce it,  when it goes live and post it here. Poetry International has published the likes of Seamus Heney, Carolyn Forche, Derek Walcott, Adrienne Rich, John Ashbery, Edward Hirsch, and Robert Bly, to name a few.My antiracist pilot “Raceless” was named Best TV Pilot/Screenplay in the thriller category at the NY Screenwriting Awards 2023, and was selected to be part of NY International Screenplay Festival 2023.My poem Green Black Waters was named a finalist for the Omnidawn Poetry Broadside Prize.