• 2024 | Finalist for the Montreal International Poetry Prize, judged by A.E. Stallings • 2023 | Winner of a Critics’ Desk Award from ARC Poetry magazine for a review of Stephen Collis’ A History of the Theories of Rain • 2023 | Finalist for the Alberta Magazine Awards - Emerging Writer • 2022 | Finalist for the Montreal International Poetry Prize • 2022 | Shortlisted for the Malahat Review’s Open Season Awards - Fiction, judged by Zilla Jones • 2021 | Winner of the Ritter Sport Film Award (Berlin), co-writer for the short film, Colour Study, available on CBC Gem, with screenings at TIFF and elsewhere. • 2021 | Finalist for the Mitchell Prize for Faith and Poetry • 2021 | Winner of the SAAG (Southern Alberta Art Gallery) Arts Writing Prize • 2021 | Finalist for the National Magazine Awards - Poetry • 2020 | Poetry shortlisted for the Bridport International Creative Writing Prize (UK), judged by Mimi Khalvati • 2020 | Autofiction nominated by Carte Blanche for the Pushcart Prizes • 2020 | Poetry nominated by Poetry Northwest for the Pushcart Prizes • 2018 | Honourable Mention for the Humber Literary Review’s Emerging Writers Fiction Contest, judged by Cherie Dimaline and Ayelet Tsabari • 2018 | Longlisted for the Fiddlehead’s 2018 Short Fiction Prize, judged by Kerry-Lee Powell • 2018 | Finalist for the Alberta Magazine Awards - Poetry • 2016 | Finalist for the National Magazine Awards - Poetry
Port of Being|| Finalist for the 2019 City of Vancouver Book Award || Finalist for the 2019 BC and Yukon Book Prizes (Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize) || Shortlisted for the 2019 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award || Longlisted for the 2019 Pat Lowther Memorial Award || Winner of the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry
Residencies
• 2021 | Gushul Studio Residency (Fiction) Recipient of the 2021 Southern Alberta Art Gallery Poetry and Prose Prize. Received a month-long residency for fiction at the Gushul Studio. • 2021 | Deer Lake Artist Residencies (Fiction) Received residency for the month of June at the postwar-era Baldwin House to work on the fourth draft of my novel. • 2020 | Banff Centre for the Arts | Writing Studio (Fiction) Accepted with scholarship. Residency cancelled due to pandemic. • 2019 | Banff Centre for the Arts | Autobiography and Fiction with Electric Lit Accepted with scholarship. Completed six chapters of my novel.
Fellowship Recognitions
• 2020 | David T.K. Wong Fellowship (Fiction) An excerpt from my novel in progress was longlisted for the £26,000 international fellowship at the University of East Anglia (UK). • 2019 | Iceland Writers’ Retreat (Fiction) Excerpts from my novel received an honourable mention for the Iceland Writers’ Retreat Award.
