J.B. Stone

Awards/Nomnoms

2018

1st Place – Academy of the Heart and Mind‘s Summer Contest for the poem “Fireflies”

2019

Pure Ink Poetry Slam Tag Team Championship w/ Brandon Williamson

2021

Qualified to represent Pure Ink Poetry in the 2022 Southern Fried Poetry Slam Festival in Louisville, KY

2022

Qualified to represent for Pure Ink Poetry in the 2023 Southern Fried Poetry Slam Festival in Knoxville, TN

Pure Ink Poetry Slam Season Champion (Aug 2022-January 2023)

Nominated for Best of the Net 2023 – Amber Rose in Flashback Fiction

Nominated for Best Small Fictions 2023 – Suddenly in Atlas and Alice Literary Magazine

2023

Qualified to represent for Pure Ink Poetry in the 2024 Poetry Slam Festival in Pompano Beach, FL

Longlisted in the CRAFT Literary‘s Inaugural Character Sketch Challenge

St Catharines Poetry Slam Champion

Guelph Poetry Slam Champion

2024

2024 Pure Ink Poetry Summer Slam Poetry Champion

Nominated for Best of the Net 2025 – Your Father’s Ol Pine Box in Talon Review

Winning Selection in Button Poetry’s 2024 Short Form Contest

2025

Qualified to represent for Pure Ink Poetry in the 2025 Southern Fried Poetry Slam Festival in Knoxville, TN

Pure Ink Poetry Slam Season Champion

Hamilton Poetry Slam Champion

Winner of Spellbound Poetry Slam’s Inaugural Virtual Poetry Slam, Winner of the October Edition

Honorable Mention, Inaugural Allen Street Art Writing Contest, judged by Kim Chinquee & Christina Milletti, selected to be featured alongside the paintings of local artist, Super Mortal for the whole month of August

Semifinalist in Alien Buddha Press’s House of Horrors 8th Annual Showdown

Nominated for Best Microfictions 2026 – It Happened at Midnight in Folklore Review