honours & Awards

JOURNALISM

Winner (Silver) for the 2022-2023 Alberta Magazine Award, Editorial Package, for “Crisis,” Edify

Finalist for the 2022-2023 Alberta Magazine Award, Feature Writing: Long, for “Rural Frontiers,” New Trail

Finalist for the 2021-2022 Alberta Magazine Award, Editorial Package: Print, for “The Rural Issue,” Alberta Views

Finalist for the 2019-2020 Alberta Magazine Award, Profile, for “Seeing into the future,” The Yards

Winner (Gold) of the 2018-2019 Alberta Magazine Award, Service: Lifestyle, for “High Society,” Avenue Edmonton

Selected for Best Canadian Essays 2019 (Biblioasis), for “The High and Lonesome Sound,” originally published in Eighteen Bridges

Finalist for the 2018-2019 Alberta Magazine Award, Alberta Story, for “The High and Lonesome Sound,” Eighteen Bridges

Finalist for the 2018-2019 Alberta Magazine Award, Feature Writing: Long, for “The Life of Pie,” Avenue Edmonton

Finalist for the 2015-2016 Alberta Magazine Award, Service: Lifestyle, for "The Best of You," Alberta Venture

COPYWRITING & COMMUNICATIONS

Award of Excellence, Publications, International Association of Business Communicators Gold Quill Award 2024, for The Build, PCL’s Employee Magazine

Award of Excellence, Internal Communications, Society for Marketing Professional Services Marketing Communications Award 2024, for The Build, PCL’s Employee Magazine

Award of Distinction, Copywriting, Ad Club of Edmonton Awards 2020, for “Vikings: Beyond the Legend” for Royal Alberta Museum 

Winner, Best in Show, Ad Club of Edmonton Awards 2020, for “Vikings: Beyond the Legend” for Royal Alberta Museum

Award of Distinction, User Experience, Ad Club of Edmonton Awards 2020, for “Vikings: Beyond the Legend” for Royal Alberta Museum

Winner, Advertising Campaign, Ad Club of Edmonton Awards 2020, for “Vikings: Beyond the Legend” for Royal Alberta Museum

Winner of the 2019 Anvil Award, Poster, for “Cannabis Canadiana” map for Emerald Health Therapeutics

Award of Distinction, Poster, Ad Club of Edmonton Awards 2019, for “Cannabis Canadiana” map for Emerald Health Therapeutics

Shortlisted for the Communication Arts 2019 Illustration Contest, for “Cannabis Canadiana” for Emerald Health Therapeutics

ACADEMIC

Nominated for the University of Alberta ENGL Senior-level Prize in Canadian Literature, Department of English and Film Studies 

Winner of the University of Alberta WRITE 200-level Prize in Nonfiction Writing, Department of English and Film Studies