WRITING CONTESTS AND AWARDS
2021 – Finalist for the Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction for Peacekeeper’s Daughter: A Middle East Memoir
2021 – Winner, 2021 Doula Support Foundation’s Birth Story Contest (2nd place) for “Winter Rose”.
2020 – Winner, The New Quarterly’s Edna Staebler Award for Personal Essay (2nd place) for “Terrorist Mythologies”.
2019 – “Terrorist Narratives” (first published in Malahat Review) selected and published in Best Canadian Essays of 2019 (forthcoming)
2018 – Finalist in CANSCAIP’s 2018 Writing for Children Awards for “All Alone, War Pigeon” (picture book category)
2017 – Honourable Mention in subTerrain’s 2017 Lush Triumphant Literary Awards for “Sanctuary” (essay published in Fall 2018)
2016 – Honourable Mention in Room Magazine’s 2016 Fiction Contest for “Garbarge Girl” https://roommagazine.com/writing/garbage-girl
2016 – Finalist in Ruminate Magazine’s Spiritual Non-Fiction Contest for “Heaven’s Gate”
2015 – “Beirut Bombing” (first published in EVENT) selected and published in Best Canadian Essays of 2015
2015 – Finalist in Writers’ Union of Canada Short Fiction Contest for “Carrying War”
2014 – Nominated for a National Magazine Award for the creative non-fiction essay “The Twelfth Year”. Grain Vol. 41.1, Fall 2013
2014 – Nominated for a Western Magazine Award for “The Twelfth Year”. Grain Vol. 41.1, Fall 2013
2014 – Shortlisted in Top Ten for EVENT Magazine’s Creative Non-Fiction competition for “Beirut Bombing”
2012 – Long-listed for the Writers’ Union of Canada Writing for Children Competition for Touch the Moon (picture book category)
2002 – Top Ten Finalist for EVENT Magazine Creative Non-Fiction Contest #15 for “The Twelfth Year”
GRANTS 2015 Canada Council for the Arts grant for “The Twelfth Year” memoir project
MEMBERSHIPS
Quebec Writing Federation
CANSCAIP