Awards & Notables

Prose

🌟 1st Prize Nonfiction • Victoria Writers’ Society • 2025 Writing Contest

🌟 1st Prize Nonfiction • Royal City Literary Arts Society 🇨🇦 • 2020 WriteOn! Contest

🌟 3rd Prize Nonfiction • Royal City Literary Arts Society 🇨🇦 • 2022 WriteOn! Contest

  • Honourable Mention • Women on Writing • 2024 Q2 Creative Nonfiction Essay Contest
  • Semi-Finalist • CutBank • 2023 Flash Prose Contest
  • Short List, Fiction • Federation of BC Writers 🇨🇦 • 2017 Summer Fiction Contest
  • Long List, Micro Nonfiction • Sunspot Literary Journal • 2022 Geminga Contest

Nominations

  • Pushcart Prize • Literary Namjooning • 2024 Prose “Alpine Strawberries”
  • Best Microfiction • Emerge Literary Journal • 2023 Prose “Old, Worn, Loved”
  • Best of the Net • The Bitchin’ Kitsch • 2022 Cover Photography “Tracks”

Contest Judge

  • Nonfiction • Royal City Literary Arts Society 🇨🇦 • 2023 WriteOn! Contest
  • Nonfiction • Royal City Literary Arts Society 🇨🇦 • 2021 WriteOn! Contest

Haiku & Poetry

PRIZES:

🌟 Best in British Columbia • 2024 Haiku Invitational • Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival 🇨🇦

🌟 Award of Excellence • 2023 Setouchi-Matsuyama International Photo-Haiku Contest 🇯🇵

🌟 2nd Prize • 2025 Kiyoshi & Kiyoku Tokutomi Memorial Haiku Contest • Yuki Teikei Haiku Society 🇯🇵

🌟 2nd Prize • 2020 Little Iris International Haiku Contest • Three Rivers Haiku Association 🇭🇷

🌟 3rd Prize • 2022 Betty Drevniok Award • Haiku Canada 🇨🇦

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