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=== Recognitions & Awards ===
* In 2008, he won first place in the Annual Fiction Writing Contest held by ''North Shoreian Magazine'' with his short story “The Trees of Evermore”.<ref name="auto6">{{Cite web |title=Lord of the Dome |url=https://www.judahmahay.com/lord-of-the-dome/ |access-date=2024-08-06 |website=Judah Mahay, Author |language=en-US}}</ref>
* In 2009, his short story "Lord of the Dome", first published in ''New York Twist Magazine'', won the WeMakeYourMovie Contest to be made into a short student film.<ref name="auto4"/>
* In 2009, he was awarded a grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts, provided by the East End Arts Council, to support his Watermill Grimoire project at the Watermill Center.<ref name="auto"/>
* From 2009 to 2012, he served as a preliminary judge for ''[[storySouth]]’s'' [[Million Writers Award]] from 2009 to 2012.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-08-05 |title=Million Writers Award notable stories of 2011 |url=https://www.jasonsanford.com/jason/2012/05/20/million-writers-award-notable-stories-of-2011 |access-date=2024-08-06 |website=Jason Sanford |language=en-US}}</ref>
* In 2010, he was accepted to a two-week residency at [[Robert Wilson (director)|Robert Wilson]]’s [[The Watermill Center|Watermill Center]], during which he wrote the Watermill Grimoire comprised of several character-driven vignettes inspired by artifacts from the Watermill archive.<ref name="auto"/><ref name="auto1"/>
* In 2013, Mahay was recognized by the Long Island Council for the Arts in Freeport for his contributions to the arts community on Long Island.<ref name="auto3"/>
* In 2016, obtained his MFA in Creative Writing & Literature from Stony Brook Southampton with the unpublished novel ''Body Insurance'' as his MFA thesis.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Short Biography |url=https://www.judahmahay.com/biography/ |access-date=2024-08-09 |website=Judah Mahay, heAuthor |language=en-US}}</ref>
* In 2024, received an Honorable Mention in the [[Writers and Illustrators of the Future|Writers of the Future Contest]] for his unpublished novelette, ''The Sky Gilded Gray''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Labaqui |first=Joni |date=2024-07-17 |title=Writers of the Future 2nd Quarter Winners Announced for Volume 41 |url=https://writersofthefuture.com/writers-of-the-future-2nd-quarter-winners-announced-for-volume-41/ |access-date=2024-08-06 |website=Writers & Illustrators of the Future |language=en-US}}</ref>
=== Current Projects ===
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