

Selected Awards and Press
2024
artsnb Creation Grant
Barbara Deming Memorial Fund Inc. Grant
The Kenyon Review- Developmental Editing Fellowship for Emerging Writers- Fiction Finalist
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2023
The Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2023- Longlisted for "Aabirah Sees a Bird"
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2022
"Winter Writers Retreat" Literary Residency Scholarship (Banff Centre for the Arts)- Fiona Mee Foundation Endowment
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2021
Explore and Create Research and Creation Grant for Literature (Canada Council for the Arts)
The Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2021- Longlisted for "Date Night"
Carve Magazine Prose & Poetry Contest 2020- Winner for "The Girl with Precise Interests"
2020
Quebec Writers' Federation Playwriting Prize 2020- Finalist for Sania The Destroyer
Explore and Create Research and Creation Grant for Literature (Canada Council for the Arts)
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2019
Research and Creation Grant for Literature (CALQ- Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec)
Nominated by Joyland for the Journey Prize (nominated story: “A Dull Yellow Presence”)
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2018
Professional Development Grant for Writers (Canada Council for the Arts)
"Writing Studio" Literary Residency Scholarship (Banff Centre for the Arts)- Rogers Communications Endowment Fund
Play Sania The Destroyer chosen for 2018-2019 TNB production season (50th Anniversary season of Theatre New Brunswick’s Young Company Tour)
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2017
Nominated by The Fiddlehead for the Pushcart Prize (nominated story: “Dead Pumpkin”)
Nominated by The Fiddlehead for the Journey Prize (nominated story: “Dead Pumpkin”)
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2016
Young People’s Theatre Grant (A National Theatre for Young Audiences (TYA) Play Creation Initiative):
To adapt my short story “Dead Pumpkin” into a stage production in consultation with TNB artistic director Thomas Morgan Jones and dramaturg of Young People’s Theatre Stephen Colella
Nominated by The Fiddlehead for the Journey Prize (nominated story: “A Fixed Image”)
Shortlisted for the Room Magazine Fiction Contest (for the story “Parc Ex”)
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2015
SLS Disquiet Fellowship/Longlisted for the SLS Disquiet Literary Contest for the story "Baba Jaan" (Disquiet International Literary Program)
Concordia University Conference and Exposition Award
Concordia University Student Conference Travel Support Award
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2014-2015
Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Master’s Scholarship (SSHRC- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council)
Concordia University Merit Scholarship
Concordia University Entrance Award
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2013
Professional Project Grant (Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council)
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2011
Newfoundland and Labrador Arts and Letters Award for "Bloody Heels" (Senior Division Poetry)