Victoria’s Awards & Accolades
- 2024 “The Accidental Courage of Our Lives”
- Semi-finalist, 2024 Washington Prize, The Word Works
- 2024 “The Accidental Courage of Our Lives”
- Finalist, Barry Spacks Poetry Prize, Gunpowder Press
- 2024 “First They Send You to Limbo”
- First Place, Joy Bale Boone Poetry Prize
- 2023 “Trust the Sweet Potato”
- Short-listed for Sheila-Na-Gig Editions 2023 First Chapbook Prize
- 2023 “Grandma’s Telling Me”
- 3rd Place, Poetry Super Highway Contest
- 2023 “A Mother’s Litany—How to Prepare for a Child’s Hospital Stay”
- 2nd Place, Medmic Summer Poetry Contest
- 2019 “Something to Salvage”
- Runner up, WOW! Women on Writing Summer 2019 Flash Fiction Contest
- 2018 “A Slow Boat to Finland”
- Runner up, Bath Flash Fiction Award, Novella-in-Flash
- 2014 “Oldest Story in the Book”
- Honorable mention, Poetry in the Windows VI, Arroyo Arts Collective
- 2006 “Looking for Stars”
- Best unpublished short story, San Diego Book Awards
- 2005 “During a Tour of a Friend's House”
- Poetry, Passager Winners on the Web, raven.ubalt.edu/features/passager/issue40_2.htm
- 2003 “Fractured Blue, a Short Chronology”
- Best unpublished poetry, San Diego Book Awards