2025

RBC / PEN Canada New Voices Award Finalist

Explore and Create Research and Creation Grant for Literature (Canada Council for the Arts)

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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)