Poetry, prose, and writing for the screen

• 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.
• 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.

Awards and Recognitions

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