Noted publications and Honors (REV. March 28, 2025)

*2025 Story "Vivid Warm" - Writer's Digest Short Fiction Contest, 11th Place, Yay!
*2024 Story "I Was Young Once" in ​The New Guard [Consult www.newguardreview.com]
​*2023 Poem "His Cabin" published in Dogwood: A Journal of Poetry and Prose, Issue 22
*2020 Finalist for Pirates Alley Faulkner Society's William Faulkner - William Wisdom    
     Nonfiction Competition (That I Do Not Lose You: One Man's Family Roots)
*2020 Semi-Finalist for Wheeler Prize - Ohio State University The Journal 
*2019 A Top Winner for Novel and Short Fiction: San Antonio Writers' Guild 27th Annual
     Competition  
*2018 Semi-Finalist in Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society's William Faulkner - William Wisdom  
     Novel Competition (Wakedale)
*2018 Finalist in Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society's Faulkner-Wisdom Narrative Nonfiction
     Competition (Quest for the Marble Apple)
*Pushcart Nomination by Richard Burgin, Boulevard editor, for "My Long Playing
     Records" | It provides the title story for Jespers's collection, My Long-Playing Records
     and Other Stories. See Books at the top of the page, or click here.
*His works also have appeared in Beloit Fiction Journal, Blackbird (2007 and also in 2016),
​     Chaffin Journal,  Cooweescoowee, Eclectica Magazine, Gihon River Review, Mochila
     Review (Issue 12), Oyez Review (Issue 38), Storyglossia.