AWARDS

SHORT STORIES

2009 Dialogue Fiction Award:  First Place
“In a Better Country.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 42:1 (Spring 2009): 153-206.

1999 Dialogue Fiction Award:  First Place
“The Last Code Talker.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 32:1 (Spring 1999): 161-187.

1999 Mormon Festival of the Arts: First Place (Short Story)
“The Last Code Talker.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 32:1 (Spring 1999): 161-187.

1997 Dialogue Fiction Award:  First Place
“Pioneers.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 30 (Winter 1997): 137-150.

1996 Dialogue Fiction Award:  First Place
“The Seduction of H. Lyman Winger.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 29:2 (Summer 1996): 155-175.

1995 Brookie & D.K. Brown Memorial Fiction Contest:  Second Place
“Homecoming.” Sunstone 21:1 (March 1998): 32-33.

1993 Brookie & D.K. Brown Memorial Fiction Contest:  Second Place
“Missionary Farewell.”  Sunstone 20:2 (July 1997): 27-28.

1993 Dialogue Fiction Award
“Gifts of the Spirit.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 26:3 (Fall 1993): 199-213.

1992 Brookie & D.K. Brown Memorial Fiction Contest:  First Place
“How We Do Death.” Sunstone 20:1 (April 1997): 32-40.

1992 Dialogue Fiction Award: First Place
“Apple Indian.” Dialogue:  A Journal of Mormon Thought 25:4 (Winter 1992): 161-187.

1992 Brookie & D.K. Brown Memorial Fiction Contest: Third Place
“Prodigy.” Sunstone 16:2 (August 1992): 32-33.

1991 Association for Mormon Letters: Award for Short Fiction
“Lost and Found.” Originally published in Christmas for the World (1991) Salt Lake City: Aspen Books. 
Also anthologized in Bright Angels and Familiars: Contemporary Mormon Stories (1992) Salt Lake City: Signature Books.

1989 Brookie & D.K. Brown Memorial Fiction Contest: First Place
“Things of This World.” Sunstone 16:7 (December 1993): 45-53.

1988 Brookie & D.K. Brown Memorial Fiction Contest: Third Place
“Daddy-Daughter Date.” Visions and Other Stories (1990). Salt Lake City:  Signature Books.

1987 Brookie & D.K. Brown Memorial Fiction Contest: First Place
“Family Plantation Day.” Sunstone 14:2 (April 1990): 26-35.

1986 Association for Mormon Letters: Award for Short Fiction
“Hozhoogoo Nanina Doo (Go in Beauty).” Dialogue:  A Journal of Mormon Thought 18:4 (Winter 1985): 153-182.

1986 New Times Fiction Contest: Honorable Mention
“The Orchard.” New Times 17:2 (January 8-14, 1986): 40-48.

1986 Brookie & D.K. Brown Memorial Fiction Contest: Second Place
“A Game of Inches.” Sunstone 12:5 (September 1988): 23-28.

1985 Brookie & D.K. Brown Memorial Fiction Contest: Third Place
“Visions.” Sunstone 11:3 (May 1987): 12-19.

1984 Dialogue Fiction Award: Third Place
“Hozhoogoo Nanina Doo (Go in Beauty).” Dialogue:  A Journal of Mormon Thought 18:4 (Winter 1985): 153-182.