[1] In 2015, he was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Editor (Short Form)[2] but subsequently withdrew himself from consideration due to the block voting tactics which had been used to shape the ballot, stating that "I can't in good conscience complain about the deck being stacked against me, and then feel good about being nominated for an award when the deck gets stacked in my favor.
His short fiction has been: included on storySouth's Year's Notable list; reprinted in The Writer's Post Journal's Year's Best issue; a #1 rated story on Zoetrope.com; a preliminary nominee for an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Short Story; and First Prize Winner in Lynx Eye's Captivating Beginnings contest.
[11] Schubert is a regular speaker at SF conventions in the southeastern United States,[12][13] appearing on panels and teaching workshops.
He has taught writing workshops at UNC-Greensboro in Greensboro, North Carolina,[15] for the North Carolina Writer's Network Conference, and at Southern Virginia University in Buena Vista, VA.[16] In 2019, Schubert served as both a fiction editor and a non-fiction editor for the online literary journal South 85.
[20] In those capacities he has interviewed and written about a wide variety of people, ranging from Jeff Kane, Officer in Charge of the Charlotte, NC branch of the Federal Reserve,[21] to African-America icon Maya Angelou.