2025 – 10th, Tadpole Press 100-Word Contest for “Green Strawberries
2025 – Made the Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions for 2025 for “The Warren”
2024 – Nominated for the Pushcart Prize for “Twelve Jars”
2024 – Honorable Mention, Fairfield Scribes for “Last Light of a Dying Sun”
2024 – Shortlisted, Bridport Prize for “We Live in Yellow”
2024 – Winner, Not Quite Write Flash Fiction Prize for “Twelve Jars”
2024 – Received the 2024 Fishtrap Fellowship
2023 – Winner, Tadpole Press 100-Word Contest for “Ducky”
2023 – Highly Commended, Bath Flash Fiction Awards for “Train to the Last Iceberg”
2023 – Winner, Silver Scribes Prize for “Ducky“
2023 – Finalist, Women on Writing Flash Fiction Contest for “Sea Creature”
2023 – Finalist, Women on Writing Creative Nonfiction Essay Contest for “Mother of Cherries”
2022 — Interview, Nunum for “Sea Creature“
2021 — Finalist, Prose Online‘s International Flash Prize for “Crayfish Blood”
2021 — Finalist, The Chestnut Review Stubborn Writer’s Contest for Sea Creature
2021 — Winner, Story Twigs‘ Monthly Micro Competition for “Sea Biscuits”
Autumn Bettinger 