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Canada Council for the Arts, Oct. 2021-Oct. 2022
• Earned $25,000 research and creation grant for the novel Below Daylight.

Deer Lake Artist Residency, Burnaby, BC, Jul. 2021
• Selected writer-in-residence for two weeks at Eagles Estate, the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts.

Canada Council for the Arts, Oct. 2020-Oct. 2021
• Earned $25,000 research and creation grant for the novel Junior Slump.

PLAYA Writing Residency, Summer Lake, OR, Feb. 2020
• Selected writer-in-residence for one month at PLAYA’s arts and sciences colony.

Finalist, Hunger Mountain‘s Katherine Paterson Prize, 2020, 2018
• Small-Town Terrestrials was a 2020 YA finalist.
• Below Daylight manuscript was one of two 2018 YA finalists.

Finalist, CANSCAIP Writing for Children Competition, Nov. 2019
• Junior Slump manuscript was one of two finalists in the YA category.

Canada Council for the Arts, Oct. 2019-Oct. 2020
• Earned $24,000 research and creation grant for the novel Small-Town Terrestrials.

Writing Between the Vines Writing Residency, Oliver, BC, Mar. 2019
• Selected writer-in-residence for one week at Tinhorn Creek Vineyards.

First Place, CANSCAIP Writing for Children Competition, Nov. 2018
• Small-Town Terrestrials earned the first-place $750 prize.

Writing Between the Vines Writing Residency, Sonoma Valley, CA, Mar. 2017
• Selected writer-in-residence for one week at Moshin Vineyards, plus public reading.