Poetry and Prose Awards

First Prize, 2025 Kingfisher Poetry Prize, Pulp Literature Press, Poem: My Preschool Teacher Rips Tape from the Roll

Nomination, Best of the Net 2026: Poem: Restoration

Second Prize, Muriel’s Journey Prize 2024: I want to sit on my silence

Third Prize, North Shore Writers Association Contest 2024, Poem: We Will Be Foreigners in our Daughter’s Land

Honorable Mention, North Shore Writers Association Contest 2024, Prose: My Sister Helen

Shortlist, CV2 Foster Poetry Prize 2023, Poem: Sometimes it’s like standing behind bulletproof glass

Shortlist, Freefall Magazine, Annual Prose and Poetry Contest, 2023 Poem: I Picture My Father That Day With My Dove

First Place, Quagmire Magazine, Inaugural Poetry Contest, 2023 Poem: On the Helpless Grass

Honourable Mention, Rainbow Publishers, Raven Chapbooks Contest, 2023 Chapbook: Season of Silence

Nominee, National Media Awards Foundation, National Magazine Awards, 2022 Poem: For Preserving Loss

Second Prize, Sunshine Coast Writers and Editors Society, Beachcombers Contest, 2022 Poem: On Top of Cross Rock, a Coyote

Third Prize, Sunshine Coast Writers and Editors Society, Beachcombers Contest, 2022 Poem: Still There

Shortlist, The Malahat Review, Far Horizons Award for Poetry, 2022 Poem: Restoration

Honourable Mention, Off Topic Publishing, May Contest, 2022 Poem: Nobody to Hold Her Back

Finalist, Sunspot Literary Journal, Geminga contest, 2022 Poem: Some Days I Can Taste

Select Readings

Reader at Mississauga Literary Festival, September 2025 with support of the The Writers Union of Canada and Canada Council Feature Reader at Electric Mermaid, 2024, Char’s Landing, Port Alberni
Feature Reader at Spoken Ink, 2023 Burnaby Writers’ Society, virtual
Feature Reader at Art and Words, 2023 Sunshine Coast Writers and Editors Society with support of the The Writers Union of Canada and Canada Council, Gibsons Public Market, Gibsons, B.C.
Reader, Good Stories Live Here, 2022 Sunshine Coast Arts Council and Sunshine Coast Writers and Editors Society with support of The Writers Union of Canada and Canada Council, Sunshine Coast Arts Centre, Sechelt, B.C.
Reader, B.C. and Alberta Associate Member Reading 2022, League of Canadian Poets, virtual

Writing From the Body Workshops

Private Groups, Gibsons, B.C., 2017-present
Federation of BC Writers, Spring Writes, Nanaimo, B.C., 2018
Gibsons District Public Library, Gibsons, B.C., 2018
Arts Building, Gibsons, B.C., 2017
Gibsons Community Centre, Gibsons, B.C., 2016
Britannia Community Centre, Vancouver B.C., 2016

Volunteer Work

Volunteer, Federation of BC Writers, 2024 – present Initiator and Co-Facilitator, Memoir Writing Group, Gibsons, B.C., 2019-present
Co-Facilitator, International Poetry Critique Group, virtual, 2022-present
Initiator and Facilitator, Fiction Critique Group, Gibsons, B.C., 2019-2022
Regional Rep / Director, Federation of B.C. Writers, 2018-2020

Professional Memberships

The Writers Union of Canada……………………………………………………………………………2022-present
League of Canadian Poets………………………………………………………………………………..2021-present
Sunshine Coast Writers and Editors Society…………………………………………………… 2021-2023
Federation of BC Writers………………………………………………………………………………….2016-present