“On My 47th Birthday”: Nominated for the Pushcart Prize by Whale Road Review, 2024.
“Consider the Pendulum”: Nominated for the Pushcart Prize by Rise Up Review, 2024.
“Miscarriage”: Nominated for the Pushcart Prize by tiny wren lit, 2024.
“Starfish Bodies Aren’t Bodies At All”: Finalist, Lefty Blondie Press Inaugural Editor’s Choice Broadside Series, 2024. Published by B_O_D_Y, 2024.
“Against Silence”: Nominated for Best of the Net by Feral: A Journal of Poetry and Art, 2023.
First Father: Finalist, Lefty Blondie Press Inaugural Chapbook Prize, 2023. Published by Bottlecap Press, 2023.
“Anticipatory Grief”: Grand Prize Winner, 90th Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition, 2021.
“Elegy, for Jill”: Honorable Mention, Non-Rhyming Poetry, 89th Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition, 2020. Published in for a friend anthology, by Lucent Dreaming Press, 2024.
Melissa Joplin Higley 