September 30, 2008

Jacob's short story, Rods and Cones, which first appeared in The Southwest Review, has been honored as "Notable Nonrequired Reading of 2007" by The Best American Nonrequired Reading. 

September 18, 2008

Salman Rushdie selected Jacob's short story, Creve Coeur, which previously appeared in The Missouri Review, as one of the "100 Other Distinguished Stories of 2007" in The Best American Short Stories 2008.

February 25, 2008

Jacob's stage play, Thirds, has received the Hidden River Arts Playwriting Award.

December 22, 2007

Jacob's essay, Two Cats, Fat and Thin, has been awarded first prize in the Briar Cliff Review's annual non-fiction competition.   

September 23, 2007

Jacob's short story, The Apprenticeship, which first appeared in The North American Review, has been honored as "Notable Nonrequired Reading of 2006" by The Best American Nonrequired Reading. 

September 20, 2007

Stephen King selected Jacob's short story, The Butcher's Music, which previously appeared in West Branch, as one of the "100 Other Distinguished Stories of 2006" in The Best American Short Stories 2007.

June 6, 2007

Jacob's short story, Hazardous Cargoes, which previously appeared in the Greensboro Review, has been awarded the New Millennium Writings Winter 2007 Fiction Award. 

May 15, 2007

Jacob's play, Thirds, has been honored with the Zarkower Award for Excellence in Playwriting at Hunter College.  (He is extremely grateful to Lou and Lillie Berger for selecting his play, and to the brilliant Tina Howe for her guidance in revising it.)

May 1, 2007

Purdue University's Sycamore Review awarded Jacob's short story, Exposure, its Wabash Prize for Fiction.

January 23, 2007

Jacob's short story, Creve Coeur, won the Missouri Review's short fiction contest. 

November 13, 2006

Jacob's short story Coulrophobia (Bellevue Literary Review, Fall 2005) received "Special Mention" for the 2007 Pushcart Prize.

September 1, 2006

Jacob's short story, The Ataturk of the Outer Boroughs,  which appeared in Raritan in 2005, won first prize in the Writer's Place fiction competition.

July 15 & 16, 2006

Jacob's one-act play, In the Floodplain, was staged as part of the Manhattan Repertory Theatre's SummerFest.  Rosalie Purvis directed.

June 11, 2006

Jacob's play, The Resurrection of Dismasand Gestas, received a staged reading  at the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum in Topanga, California.

February 11, 2006

Jacob's short story, The Orchard, won the Phoebe Winter Fiction Contest at George Mason University.

November 23, 2005

Jacob's short story Fallout (Colorado Review, Fall/Winter 2004) received "Special Mention" for the 2006 Pushcart Prize.

September 11, 2005

Southwest Writers honored Jacob's story, Coulrophobia, with first place in their annual competition.

September 8, 2005

Jacob was awarded the 2005 Sherwood Anderson Foundation Writing Grant

June 21, 2005

Arts & Letters (Georgia College & State University) honored Jacob's short story, The Punishment, with first place in their annual short fiction contest.

March 6, 2005

The Hackney Literary Awards (Birmingham-Southern College) awarded Jacob's short story, Coulrophobia, second place in their national short fiction competition.

February 24, 2005

Jacob's short story, Grappling, was awarded the Theodore Christian Hoepfner Award for the best work of fiction to appear in the Southern Humanities Review during the year 2004.

February 8, 2005

Disaster Management, won the Washington Square short fiction contest (New York University) and will appear in the Summer 2005 issue of Washington Square.