Awards | Dustin Grinnell

Honorable mention in The Writers’ Workshop’s 2019 Poetry Contest (for poem “The Healing Book”)
Semifinalist in the 2018 ScreenCraft Cinematic Short Story Contest (for short story “The Good Parent”).
Honorable mention in the “Cultural Travel” category in the 2019 North American Travel Journalists Association Awards Competition (for travel essay “Elixirs of Nature,” published in The LA Review of Books).
Honorable mention in the 2018 Solas Awards for Best Travel Writing (for “Elixirs of Nature”).
An excerpt from my sci-fi novel Without Limits was included in the Extreme Imagination book of art, design and writing.

Gold in the “Love” category in the 2018 Solas Awards for Best Travel Writing (for travel essay “Walkabout Love in China,” published in Perceptive Travel.
Bronze in the “Travel and Healing” category in the 2018 Solas Awards for Best Travel Writing (for essay “Letters from Dad,” published in Living Now Magazine.

Third place for “Letters from Dad” in the 2017 “Hard Times Contest” from The Writers’ Workshop.

Honorable mention in the 2016 Memoirs Contest from The Writers’ Workshop for “The Hate Game,” published in The Good Men Project.

Screenplay “Play” was a finalist in the 2013 Acclaim Scripts Film Contest, a semifinalist in the 2013 Screenplay Festival contest, and a semifinalist in the 2013 Filmmakers International Screenwriting Contest.