Member, Associated Writing Programs. (Present).
Phi Beta Kappa Society. (2009 – Present).
"The Letter" selected in 100 Other Distinguished Stories, Best American Short Stories 2012. (2012 – 2012).
Finalist for the Steven Turner Award for Best Work of First Fiction, Texas Institute of Letters. (2012 – 2012).
Notable Books of 2011, The Story Prize. (2012 – 2012).
5 Recommended Books, Boston Globe. (2011 – 2011).
Best of 2011 - Book by Texas Author Published in Last 12 Months, Fort Worth Weekly. (2011 – 2011).
Pushcart Nomination for "Makedonija" published in Five Chapters, Pushcart Prize. (2011 – 2011).
Dissertation Committee Member, English. (2023 – Present).
Dissertation Committee Member, English. (2023 – Present).
Dissertation Committee Chair, English. (2022 – Present).
Dissertation Committee Chair, English. (2022 – Present).
Dissertation Committee Member, English. (2022 – Present).
Dissertation Committee Chair, English. (2020 – Present).
Dissertation Committee Chair, English. (2020 – Present).
Dissertation Committee Chair, English. (2019 – Present).
Dissertation Committee Chair, English. (2020 – November 27, 2023).
Dissertation Committee Chair, English. (2019 – April 2023).
Master's Thesis Committee Chair, English. (2020 – 2022).
Dissertation Committee Chair, English. (March 2021).
Dissertation Committee Chair, English. (October 2018 – March 2021).
Master's Thesis Committee Chair, English. (2016 – November 2020).
Master's Thesis Committee Member, English. (March 2020).
Dissertation Committee Member, English. (February 2018 – March 2020).
Dissertation Committee Member, English. (November 2019 – February 2020).
Dissertation Committee Member, English. (2018 – 2019).
Dissertation Committee Chair, English. (2015 – 2019).
Master's Thesis Committee Chair, English. (September 1, 2017 – October 21, 2019).
Dissertation Committee Chair, English. (2016 – February 2019).
Dissertation Committee Chair,"A Novel," English. (2014 – October 2018).
Dissertation Committee Chair, English. (2016 – April 2018).
Master's Thesis Committee Chair, English. (2016 – 2017).
Dissertation Committee Member,"A Novel," English. (2015 – 2017).
Master's Thesis Committee Chair, English. (2016 – 2016).
Master's Thesis Committee Member, English. (2016 – 2016).
Dissertation Defense Committee Chair, English. (2015 – 2016).
Dissertation Committee Chair,"A Novel," English. (2013 – 2016).
Dissertation Committee Chair,"Down and Out: Novel," English. (2015 – 2015).
Dissertation Committee Chair,"Derivation: Novel," English. (2015 – 2015).
Dissertation Committee Chair,"Bass Reeves: A Novel," English. (2015 – 2015).
Master's Thesis Committee Chair,"No Paper Cowboys: Stories," English. (2015 – 2015).
Master's Thesis Committee Member,"Stories," English. (2015 – 2015).
Dissertation Committee Chair,"Patrol: A Novel," English. (2014 – 2014).
Dissertation Committee Chair,"Gray City: Stories and a Novella," English. (2014 – 2014).
Dissertation Committee Member,"Dissertation: Novel," English. (2014 – 2014).
Master's Thesis Committee Chair,"The Angular Degrees of Freedom: Stories," English. (2014 – 2014).
Master's Thesis Committee Chair,"Werewolves and Time Machines: Stories," English. (2014 – 2014).
Master's Thesis Committee Member,"Thesis: Collection of Stories," English. (2014 – 2014).
Master's Thesis Committee Chair,"Infinite Hallways: Parabola Heretica and Other Journeys," English. (2013 – 2013).
Undergraduate Honors Thesis,"Honors Thesis," English. (2013 – 2013).
Dissertation Committee Chair,"After the Planes: Novel," English. (2012 – 2012).
Master's Thesis Committee Chair,"Thesis: Collection of Stories," English. (2012 – 2012).
Master's Thesis Committee Member,"Collection of Stories," English. (2012 – 2012).
Dissertation Committee Member,"Set for Life: A Novel," English. (2011 – 2011).
Master's Thesis Committee Chair,"Thesis: Collection of Stories," English. (2011 – 2011).
Master's Thesis Committee Member,"Thesis: Collection of Essays and Stories," English. (2011 – 2011).
Master's Thesis Committee Member, English. (2011 – 2011).
Master's Thesis Committee Chair,"Thesis: Collection of Stories," English. (2010 – 2010).
Master's Thesis Committee Chair,"Thesis: Short Stories," English. (2009 – 2009).
University Distinguished Teaching Professor: Renewal, UNT, Office of the Provost. (January 18, 2024 – Present).
CLASS Advisory Board Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching, UNT, CLASS Advisory Board. (September 19, 2019 – Present).
University Distinguished Teaching Professor, UNT, Office of the Provost. (September 1, 2019 – Present).
Nominated for: J. H. Shelton Excellence in Teaching Award 2017, Department of English. (2017 – Present).
Kesterson Award for Outstanding Graduate Teaching, UNT. (2013 – 2013).
Honor Professor, Student Government Association (UNT). (2011 – 2011).
Penkov, M. N. (Author & Presenter), Sofia International Literary Festival, A River In the Labyrinth: A Conversation with Miroslav Penkov, moderated by Zachary Karabashliev, Sofia, Bulgaria, Bulgaria. (2023 – ).
Penkov, M. N. (Author & Presenter), The Rolex Arts Festival, Fiction and Locality in a Global Context: Miroslav Penkov in conversation with his Greek translator Akis Papantonis, Rolex SA, Athens, Greece, Greece. (2023 – ).
Penkov, M. N. (Author & Presenter), The Rolex Arts Festival, The Rolex Arts Initiative: Literature: A conversation with writers Miroslav Penkov, Collin Barret, Julia Lee, Julián Fuks, Edem Awumey., Rolex SA, Athens, Greece, Greece. (2023 – ).
Penkov, M. N. (Panelist), Small Countries in Big Literatures, Reading and Talk with Josip Novakovich, Miroslav Penkov, Stacy Mattingly, Elizabeth Kostova Foundation, Bulgarian Consulate General New York City, United States of America. (2017 – 2017).
Penkov, M. N. (Author), Rolex Arts Weekend, On Literary Influences, A Conversation with Michael Ondaatje, Rolex SA, Mexico City, Mexico. (2015 – 2015).
Penkov, M. N. (Author), Rolex Mentor and Protege Arts Initiative, Stork Mountain, a presentation, Rolex SA, Geneva, Switzerland, Switzerland. (2014 – 2014).
Penkov, M. N. (Other), AWP, Writing a Short Story Collection., Minneapolis, MN, United States of America. (2015 – 2015).
Penkov, M. N. (Other), AWP, The MFA in Academia, United States of America. (2010 – 2010).
Penkov, M. (Panelist), Rolex Arts Weekend, Do we have the right arts education? Homi Bhabha, William Kentridge, Miroslav Penkov, Tatiana Bilbao, Fergus Linehan, and Sir Anish Kapoor., Rolex SA, Deutsches Theater, Berlin, Germany, Germany. (2018 – 2018).
100 Notable Stories - "Black Water, Plum Rain.", The Best American Short Stories 2020. (October 2020 – Present).
The Golden Knight (First Place Award) for best feature film debut for "A Picture With Yuki", XXIX International Film Forum “Zolotoy Vityaz” 2020. (September 2020 – Present).
Best Fiction Feature for "A Picture with Yuki", IV Ibiza International Festival of Independent Film – Ibizacinefest. (February 2020 – Present).
The Critics Guild Award to Feature Film (A Picture With Yuki), Union of Bulgarian Filmmakers. (October 2019 – Present).
A Special Mention for Feature Film Debut (A Picture with Yuki), Golden Rose Film Festival. (September 2019 – Present).
Audience Award for films from the International and the Balkan competitions (A Picture With Yuki), Sofia International Film Festival 2019. (March 2019 – Present).
Nominated for: Semi-Finalist, VCU Cabell First Novelist (for Stork Mountain). (June 1, 2017 – Present).
Nominated for: Teacher Scholar Award, UNT. (2017 – 2017).
Nominated for: Longlist - The Center for Fiction’s First Novel Award, The Center for Fiction. (2016 – 2016).
Literature Protege - Rolex Mentor and Protege Arts Initiative, mentor Michael Ondaatje, Rolex. (2014 – 2015).
Early Career Award for Research and Creativity, Office of Research and Economic Development, UNT. (2014 – 2014).
Research Excellence Award, College of Arts and Sciences, UNT. (2014 – 2014).
"East of the West" selected for the 2013 Best American Nonrequired Reading, Best American Series. (2013 – 2013).
Institute for the Advancement of the Arts Faculty Fellow, UNT, Institute for the Advancement of the Arts.. (2012 – 2013).
Finalist for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, The Stanford University Libraries and the William Saroyan Foundation. (2012 – 2012).
Research Initiation Grant, UNT. (2012 – 2012).
Winner of the BBC International Short Story Award 2012 with "East of the West", The British Broadcasting Corporation. (2012 – 2012).
"East of the West" selected for the 2012 PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories. (2011 – 2011).
Junior Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, UNT. (2011 – 2011).
Junior Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, UNT. (2010 – 2010).
Research Initiation Grant, UNT. (2010 – 2010).
"Buying Lenin" selected for inclusion in The Best American Short Stories 2008, Best American Short Stories 2008. (2008 – 2008).
Eudora Welty Prize in Fiction, The Southern Review. (2008 – 2008).
Committee Member, Personnel Affairs Committee (PAC). (September 2018 – Present).
Member, Graduate admissions in Creative Writing. (August 2009 – Present).
Committee Member, Poetry Search Committee. (September 2022 – May 2023).
Committee Member, Creative Nonfiction Search Committee. (October 2021 – May 2022).
Committee Member, Fiction Search Committee. (October 2021 – May 2022).
Committee Member, Creative Nonfiction Visiting Assistant Professor Search Committee. (May 2021 – June 2021).
Committee Chair, Fiction Search Committee. (September 1, 2019 – November 15, 2019).
Other, American Literary Review. (September 2016 – September 2018).
Other, Executive Committee (EC). (August 2014 – September 2018).
Other, American Literary Review. (May 2015 – May 2016).
Other, American Literary Review. (May 2015 – May 2016).
Committee Member, Job Search Committee. (September 2015 – March 2016).
Other, American Literary Review. (September 2009 – September 2015).
Other, IAA Steering Committee. (2013 – 2014).
Other, IAA. (2013 – 2013).
Other, American Literary Review. (May 2011 – December 2011).