- Cold Isle: winner Best Environmental Film at WILDsound Daily Festival, March 2024
- Cold Isle: Winner Best Experimental Film at Environmental Film & Screenplay festival, 2024
- Bleach Bone: Over 20 film festival selections and awards in 2024/25, including: Best Western Short, New York Film & Cinematography Awards, Madrid International Movie Awards; Best Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Fantastic / Western, Paris Play Film Festival; Best Postmodern Film, Sundarban International Film Festival; Best International Film, Makizhmithran International Film Festival; Best Low Budget Short Film, Heart of Europe International Season Film Festival; Best Drama, HALO International Film Festival; Semi-Finalist, New York Indie Short Awards; Best Short Film, Caravan International Film Festival; Best Western, Holywood Best Indie Film Awards; Second Place Modern Western Best Short, Golden Dust International Film Festival
- Shortlisted: The Master’s Review 2021 Novel Excerpt Contest for Shadow of a Fox’s Tail
- Shortlisted: The Master’s Review 2020 Summer Short Story Award for The Parts He Missed (later published in the Fish Anthology).
- Winner of the Westcliffe Center for the Performing Arts’ New Rocky Mountain Voices 2012 competition for the one-act play, “Bleach Bone”
- Winner of the Best Storyline Award in the Project Fanboy Awards for the “Fiction Clemens” comic book mini-series, 2008
- Featured script writer in Eisner-nominated anthology, 24Seven vol. 2, 2008
Josh Wagner