Awards & Affiliations

Awards

• 2022 Gold Medal winner, 34th Annual IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award for Uncorked & Off the Chain
• Winner, 2018 Georgia Bar Journal annual Fiction Writing Contest for “Trudy’s Last Ride”
• Georgia Author of the Year, 2015, Georgia Writers Association for Luck Be A Chicken
• Snoopy Award winner, 2016, for Writer of the Year, Northeast Georgia Writers Group
• First Place, 2015 annual short story competition of Northeast Georgia Writers Group
• First Place, 2011 annual novel competition of the Northeast Georgia Writers Group
• Second Place, Jarvis Award for Humor, Southeastern Writers Association, 2007

Member

• Georgia Writers Registry
• Atlanta Writers Club
• Leadership Georgia, 1994
• Gridiron Secret Society

Former

• Chairman of Barnett Bank of Southeast Georgia
• Director of Atlantic National Bank in Brunswick, Georgia
• Founding Director and Vice-Chairman, St. Simons Land Trust
• President, Humane Society of South Coastal Georgia
• Trustee and Vice-Chairman, Frederica Academy
• Leadership positions in various fundraising campaigns, including Boy Scouts, American Cancer Society, St. Simons Presbyterian Church, and Coastal Georgia Historical Society
• Adjunct Instructor of Business Law, The University of North Georgia
• Chair, Author Selection Committee, 2017 Dahlonega Literary Festival

Workshops

• Attends various writing conferences, workshops, and literary festivals including Southeastern Writers Association, Atlanta Writers Club, Northeast Georgia Writers group, and the Dahlonega Literary Festival