Awards and Recognition
Prizes
2021
Best MicroFiction Anthology 2021 Winner - "It's 5am-ish, and My Father Tells Me A Story From His Time In Singapore" published with No Contact Magazine.
CRAFT Flash Fiction 2021 Contest Judged by Robert Lopez Editors' Choice Prize - "When it Gets Cold in The South, You Get a Jesus, You Get a Jesus, Everybody Gets a Goddamn Jesus."
2022
Best MicroFiction Anthology 2022 Winner - "Chicken-Girls and Chicken-Ladies and All the Possibilities of Pillowcases" published with Barren Magazine.
The Daily Drunk "The Drunkies" award for "Best Ending" 2022 - "We Give, and We Give, and We Give So Much"
Wigleaf Top 50 2022 Winner - "The Terrible Darling" published with Milk Candy Review.
Winner of the 2022 "The Changing American South Fellowship" with The Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow
2023
Exodus Oktavia Brownlow Receives Mississippi Arts Comission Grant for Individual Nonfiction Artist Fellowship - Grant Recipients
Welty Writer at Mississippi University for Women’s 35th annual Eudora Welty Writers’ Symposium. -2023 Authors
Recognitions
2020
Wigleaf's Top 50 Longlist Honorable Mention -"When it Gets Cold in The South, Only The Pumpernickel Survives" published with Jellyfish Review
Parentheses Journal Best of The Net Nomination - "When it Gets Cold in The South, Your Mama Calls to Mama You"
CRAFT Creative Nonfiction Contest longlist - "At My Gynecologist, the Ghost Gloves Go to the Garbage and the Too-Green Girls Become a Little Less Green"
Fractured Lit Pushcart Prize Nomination - "When It Gets Cold in The South, The Youngest Baby Dies".
Honorable Mention in Fractured Lit's Flash Fiction Contest by Megan Giddings - "When It Gets Cold in The South, The Youngest Baby Dies.".
Booth Journal Nomination for Best of The Net - "Mr. Frogman"
2021
Stanchion Zine Pushcart Prize Nomination - "You Are The Stranger Here, You Are The Unfamiliar Bite of Food."
The Citron Review Best Small Fictions Nomination - "The Proper Way to Peel an Orange".
Pushcart Prize Board of Contributing Editors' Nomination
2022
Parentheses Journal Best MicroFiction Nomination - "The Telling and Showing Ends in this Space, in this Place Were Bare Feet Pushed Back Against the Pebbles, and the Blueberries Always Remained Unbroken in the Pancake Batter".
Jellyfish Review Nomination for Best of The Net - "Cauliflower is Just What Happens To Broccoli When It Dies".
The Hellebore Press Nomination for Best of The Net - "If I Had It My Way, Burger King Would Be The One We'd Remember"
2023
Wigleaf Top 50 Long-List 2023 - “Technically, I’m a Poet Now, and/so I Think It’s My Turn to Write Something About the Moon.”
Mississippi Top Reads, number 6th placement, with Clarion-Ledger for debut collection of nonfiction book “I’m Afraid That I Know Too Much About Myself Now, To Go Back to Who I Knew Before, And Oh Lord, Who Will I Be After I’ve Known All That I Can?” on July 3rd, 2023.
Small Press Distribution Nonfiction Bestseller, number 4 placement, for debut collection of nonfiction book “I’m Afraid That I Know Too Much About Myself Now, To Go Back to Who I Knew Before, And Oh Lord, Who Will I Be After I’ve Known All That I Can?” on June-July, 2023.
Quarter After Eight Nomination for a Pushcart Prize—”When the World Was Ending We Wore The Cornrows. We Twisted Our Coils, and We Waited.”
Wigleaf Nomination for Best MicroFiction 2024—”The After-Brother, The Before-Brother, and The Now-Brother: The Very Small Telling of The Time Triplets of Honey, Ms.”