- Reunion and Tinseltown, both available from MLR Press, are Finalists in the 2013 National Indie Excellence Book Awards
- The Celestial, available from MLR Press, is a FINALIST in the 25th Annual Lambda Literary Awards and the 2012 ForeWord Book of the Year Awards, and was a FINALIST in the 2012 Pacific Northwest Writers Association Literary Contest.
- Tinseltown, available from MLR Press,won 3rd PLACE in the 2010 Pacific Northwest Writers Association Literary Contest, and was a FINALIST in the 24th Annual Lambda Literary Awards
- Tinseltown (screenplay) was a FINALIST in the 27th International WriteMovies Competition
- Reunion, available from MLR Press, is a FINALIST in the 2012 ForeWord Book of the Year Awards.
- Nagasaki, published in Polari Journal Issue 2 (October 2010), was a FINALIST in the 2010 Dana Awards, and appears in Barry’s short story collection Reunion, available from MLR Press
- Shin-Kiba Park, published in Gival Press’s ArLiJo, was nominated for a 2008 Pushcart Prize and appears in Barry’s short story collection Reunion, available from MLR Press
- The Price of Silence, published by L&L Dreamspell, was a FINALIST in the 2009 Pacific Northwest Writers Association Literary Contest and received HONORABLE MENTION in the WriteSafe Art & Writing Competition
- The Sulphur Cure, available from L&L Dreamspell, was a FINALIST in the 2006, 2008, and 2009 Pacific Northwest Writers Association Literary Contests and received HONORABLE MENTION in the WriteSafe Art & Writing Competition
- The Darkest Recesses (short story collection) received HONORABLE MENTION in the WriteSafe Art & Writing Competition and was a SEMI-FINALIST in the WriteMovies.com International Competition #14
- Ficelle, published in SNReview, Summer 2007, received HONORABLE MENTION in theWriteSafe Art & Writing Competition
- A Rather Salty Little Farce, a La Carte (short story) received HONORABLE MENTION in theWriteSafe Art & Writing Competition
- A Special Kind of Folk, which appears in the Dreamspell Nightmares anthology from L&L Dreamspell, received HONORABLE MENTION in theWriteSafe Art & Writing Competition
- Pot Roast (short story) received HONORABLE MENTION in theWriteSafe Art & Writing Competition
- The Gift: Home Is Where the Hearts Are (teleplay) was a FINALIST in the 2006 & 2008 Pacific Northwest Writers Association Literary Contests
- The Simpsons: She Derided Me With Science (teleplay) won 3rd PLACE in the 79th Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition and was a SEMI-FINALIST in the WriteSafe Art & Writing Competition
- The Simpsons: What a Revoltin’ Development (teleplay) received HONORABLE MENTION in the 74th Annual Writers’ Digest Competition and was a SEMI-FINALIST in both the WriteSafe Art & Writing Competition and the WriteMovies.com International Competition #14
- The Simpsons: A Spoonful of Medicine Helps the Medicine Go Down (teleplay) was a SEMI-FINALIST in the WriteSafe Art & Writing Competition
- The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Branching Out (teleplay) was a FINALIST in the WILDsound Winter 2011 Screenplay Contest
