2016 Essay "It Not Only Rises, it Shines,"; won the Edna Staebler Personal Essay contest.
2016 Story, "The Expansion,"; won the Rusty Toque Chapbook competition and is forthcoming in 2017.
2015 The Pull of the Moon won a Bronze Ippy Award and the Victoria Book Prize.
2014 The story "Damage,"; published in Little Fiction, and in The Pull of the Moon, has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
2014 The Pull of the Moon was named as one of The Globe and Mail's Top 100 Books of 2014.
Stories from The Pull of the Moon used in Camosun College Writing course curriculum. The Jealousy Bone has been used as part of Carleton University English course curriculum
2008 Shortlisted for The Rona Murray Award, CACGV.
2006 Writers' Union Postcard Story competition, finalist.
2005 Shortlisted for CBC Literary Competition, Short Fiction category. ("Feeding on Demand,"; since published in my first book, The Jealousy Bone)
2005 Federation of BC Writers Literary Writes Competition (Fiction), third prize.
2004 Writer's Union Short fiction competition, finalist.
2004 Rona Murray Competition, second place, short fiction, CACGV.
Monday Magazine's 2003 Fiction contest, first place.