- April 2010: Pat’s short story Take Away was awarded Honorable Mention in the Seven Hills Review Flash Fiction contest judged by Robert Olen Butler.
- October 2009: Pat was invited to read her short story Moving On at the Southern Women’s Writer’s Conference.
- March 2009: Pat’s short story, Good Neighbors, was selected as a semifinalist in the 2008 Short Stories Contest of Jane’s Stories Press Foundation.
- March 2009: Pat was nominated for a United States Artists Grant.