Noted publications and Honors (REV. AUGUST 7, 2024)
*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.
*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.