Tom Sheehan has won a Silver Rose Award for Excellence in the Art of the Short Story, from American Renaissance for the Twenty-first Century (ART), for a short story, "The Man Who Hid Music," in the New Works Review; a nomination from Paumanok Review for Pushcart XXVII for "The Dumpmaster's Boy" in a recent issue; and nomination for inclusion in The Zine Yearbook for sites with less than 5000 circulation ("The Boy Who Got Stuck under the Warren Avenue Bridge" in Snowbound). His first novel, "Vigilantes East," was just released by Publish America and is available through Amazon or Barnes & Noble.