Scott has been awarded three national writing fellowships in his country, the Philippines. These include the Ateneo National Writing Workshop, the UST National Writing Workshop, and a fellowship given by the alumni of Iowa’s International Writing Program. His works have appeared in The Best Asian Short Stories 2019 and 2020 anthologies, Salt Hill, SAND Journal, The Chaffin Journal, and elsewhere. In 2019 he received two Pushcart Prize Nominations, one from Salt Hill and the other from The Chaffin Journal. He lives in Boracay Island where he is working on his first novel.