Recognitions

2017    First Place, Okanagan Short Fiction Contest, for “The Island.”
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2016    Third Place, Prairie Fire Fiction Contest, for “Clearwater.”

2015    Honorable Mention, Room Fiction Contest, for “Vagina Dentata.”

2012    First Place, Okanagan Short Fiction Contest, for “Billeh and the Bee Man.”

2012    Longlisted, Best Canadian Poetry in English: 2012.  Ed. Carmine Starnino and Molly Peacock.

2012    Editor’s Choice, Arc Poem of the Year Contest, for “Uses for a Mole.”

2012    Shortlisted, CBC Short Fiction Contest, for “The Burgess Shale.” (Q&A)

2012    First Place, Okanagan Short Fiction Contest, for “Billeh and the Bee Man.”

2009    Shortlisted, Dorothy Livesay prize (BC Book Prize for best book of poetry) for Water Strider.  (Top five poetry books in BC in 2008.)

2009    Longlisted, Relit Poetry Awards, for Water Strider.

2008    Longlisted, Best Canadian Poetry in English: 2008.   Ed. Stephanie 

Bolster & Molly Peacock, for “Long Beach.” 

2008    Shortlisted, Okanagan Short Fiction Contest, for “Clearwater.”

2007    First Place, Okanagan Short Fiction Contest, for “The Canoe.”

2005    Co-winner, Geist Magazine Short Fiction Contest, for “That Ersatz Thing”

2005    Third Place, Arc Poetry Magazine Poem of the Year Contest, for “Cock Pheasant”