 Finn won the 2005 Cimmerian Awards for Outstanding Achievement, Best Essay (for “Fists of Robert E. Howard” from "The Barbaric Triumph"), and the Emerging Scholar plus the 2007 Awards for Outstanding Achievement, Book By A Single Author (for "Blood & Thunder") and Outstanding Achievement, Website (along with Leo Grin, Rob Roehm and Steve Tompkins for The Cimmerian blog).In 2013, 2014 and 2016 Finn was named one of the top movie critics in Texas by the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors awards.Finn is a managing editor for Skelos