Awards and Nominations

• Anh Sang (Screenplay): GRAND PRIZE, 2017 Rhode Island International Film Festival Screenplay Competition; FINALIST, Fifteenth Annual American Zoetrope Screenplay Contest; WINNER, Best LGBT Feature Screenplay, Amsterdam 2018, New Renaissance Screenwriting Competition; SECOND PLACE, 2018 Write Brothers Feature Screenplay Competition, Canada International Film Festival; WINNER, Feature Screenplay, November LGBT Feedback Festival, Toronto; FIRST PLACE, June-July 2017 Edition of The Monthly Film Festival Screenplay Competition;  SILVER PRIZE Winner in Drama, 2017 Hollywood Screenplay Contest; QUARTER-FINALIST, 2017 ScreenCraft Drama Screenplay Contest; 9th PLACE, 86th Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition; FINALIST, TeaDance Film Festival Screenplay Competition; HONORABLE MENTION, Write Movies June/July 2017 Featured Script of the Month
• Sideways Down the Sky (Screenplay):  GRAND PRIZE WINNER, Barren Branches LGBTQ Screenplay, Rhode Island International Film Festival; SEMI-FINALIST, 14th Annual American Zoetrope Screenplay Contest; TOP 75, 2016 Tracking Board Launch Pad Feature Screenplay Competition; FINALIST, 2016 Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation Competition; FINALIST, 2017 Contest of Contest Winner; SEMI-FINALIST, Carmesi House International Screenplay Competition; FINALIST, Great Gay Screenplay Contest; FINALIST, TeaDance Gay and Lesbian Film Festival Screenplay Contest; FINALIST, Cannes Screenplay Contest
• Paradise at Main and Elm (Screenplay) was named a FINALIST in both the Great Gay Screenplay and TMC London Film Festival Contests
• The Simpsons: A Spoonful of Medicine Helps the Medicine Go Down was named the GRAND PRIZE WINNER and The Simpsons: What a Revoltin’ Development was named a SILVER AWARD WINNER in the American Movie Awards Screenplay Contest
• Nagasaki was named a FINALIST in the 1st Annual TeaDance Gay and Lesbian Film Festival Screenplay Competition, and was nominee in the Toronto International Film and Video Awards
• The Celestial, The Simpsons: A Spoonful of Medicine Helps the Medicine Go Down, and The Gifted: The Calling, Episode 1 are all FINALISTS in the Las Vegas Screenplay Contest
• Reunion (Screenplay) was named a SEMI-FINALIST in the Marquee Lights Screenplay Competition, won 4th PLACE in the London Film Awards Screenplay Competition, and was named a FINALIST in the 1st Annual TeaDance Gay and Lesbian Film Festival Screenplay Competition
• The Celestial (Screenplay) was named a QUARTER-FINALIST in the BlueCat Screenplay Contest, a FINALIST in the Great Gay Screenplay Competition; a Gold Award Winner in the International Independent Film Awards;  won FIRST PLACE in the 2014 Rhode Island International Film Competition; and was named a FINALIST in the 1st Annual TeaDance Gay and Lesbian Film Festival Screenplay Competition
• Kill Them With Kindness (Screenplay) made the TOP 10% in the BlueCat Screenplay Competition (Short Screenplay Category)
• The Simpsons: A Spoonful of Medicine Helps the Medicine Go Down was named a FINALIST in the Chicago Screenplay Competition
• Nagasaki (Screenplay) was named a FINALIST in the 1st Annual TeaDance Gay and Lesbian Film Festival Screenplay Competition
• Reunion (Screenplay) was named a Silver Award Winner in the International Independent Film Awards
• The Gifted (Teleplay, Pilot) was named a QUARTER-FINALIST in the Final Draft Big Break Contest and was a 2nd Rounder in the 2014 Austin Film Festival
• Paradise at Main and Elm was named a Finalist for Gay & Lesbian Fiction in the 2013 ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Awards and a FINALIST in the 2014 Rainbow Awards
• A Special Kind of Folk was named a FINALIST for Fiction, Horror Category, in the 2013 ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Awards
• The Celestial won the Gold Medal for Gay & Lesbian Fiction in the 2012 ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Awards
• Reunion was named a FINALIST in the 2013 USA Book News Best Book Awards
• Reunion and Tinseltown were FINALISTS in the 2013 National Indie Excellence Book Awards
• The Celestial was a FINALIST in the 25th Annual Lambda Literary Awards and the 2012 ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Awards, was a FINALIST in the 2012 Pacific Northwest Writers Association Literary Contest, and was a TOP 10 FINALIST in the 2017 LaunchPad Manuscript Contest.
• Tinseltown 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 was a FINALIST in the 2012 ForeWord Reviews 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 byL&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, published 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, 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 3^rd 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 74^th 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 named a WINNER in the  October 2013 WILDsound Screenplay Contest