National Magazine Award (Gold) • BC/Yukon Book Prize Winner • Three Junior Library Guild Gold Standards • Governor General's Literary Award Finalist • TD Canadian Children's Book Award Finalist • City of Victoria Children's Book Prize Three-Time Finalist •  Chocolate Lily Book Award Six-Time Finalist • ​Two Kirkus Books of the Year • Eight-Time Canadian Children's Book Centre (CCBC) Best Book • A NYPL Best Book of the Year • An Air/Space Smithsonian Book of the Year 

Select honours

Work for adults
  • First Place, Poetry, Atlantic Writing Competition
  • Gold, National Magazine Award
  • Wasp, selected for Best Canadian Poetry 2019 (Biblioasis)
  • Shortlist, Barren Poetry Contest - Hazel, 16, Eats Blackberry Pie
  • Second Place, Short Story Challenge, NYC Midnight
  • Honourable Mention, Novel, Atlantic Writing Competition
  • Finalist, Far Horizons Award, The Malahat Review
  • First Place, Victoria School of Writing Postcard Fiction Contest

Work for children and teens

B.C./Yukon Book Prize
  • Winner, Genius Jolene, 2021
  • Finalist, Nevers, 2020

Award finalists
  • Hackmatack Children's Choice Award – Star Sailor, 2027; Nevers, 2020
  • Sunshine Coast Writers and Editors Society Book Awards for BC Authors 2026, Star Sailor
  • Chocolate Lily Award – The Secret Office, 2025; Genius Jolene, 2022; Nevers, 2021; Great Googlini, 2020; Black Gold, 2019; Blackberry Juice, 2018; Seeing Orange, 2013
  • City of Victoria Children’s Book Prize – Union, 2023; Nevers, 2020; Skylark, 2014
  • TD Canadian Children's Literature Award 2023, Kunoichi Bunny
  • Silver Birch Express Award – Genius Jolene, 2021; A Boy Named Queen, 2018
  • Rocky Mountain Book Award – Nevers, 2021; A Boy Named Queen, 2018
  • Governor General's Literary Award in Young People's Literature – Nevers, 2020
  • Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic – Nevers, 2020
  • Schwartz Children's Book Award – A Boy Named Queen, 2017
  • Manitoba Young Readers' Choice – A Boy Named Queen, 2017
  • Diamond Willow Award – A Boy Named Queen, 2017

Best-of-year and commended lists
  • Children's Literature Assembly (CLA) Notable Children’s Books in the Language Arts, 2026, Star Sailor
  • Telling Tales Reading List 2025, Star Sailor
  • Ontario Library Association (OLA) Best Bets, Star Sailor, 2025; Helen's Birds, 2019
  • 49th Shelf Kids Top Grade: Canlit for the Classroom, Star Sailor, 2025; Secret Office, 2024; Union, 2022
  • BookPal Outstanding Works of Literature (OWL) Awards - Education: Elementary School 2024, Secret Office
  • BC Books for Schools 2022, Union
  • New York Public Library Best Books for Kids 2022, Kunoichi Bunny
  • Bank Street College of Education, Best Books 2022, Kunoichi Bunny; Slick, 2011
  • Canadian Children's Book Centre (CCBC) Best Books for Children and Teens 
    • STARRED: Star Sailor, Kunoichi Bunny, Genius Jolene, A Boy Named Queen, Double Play, Seeing Orange
    • Commended: Secret Office, Union, Not For Sale, Skylark, Windfall, Slick
  • Two STARRED Kirkus Middle-Grade Books of the year, The Great Googlini 2018, A Boy Named Queen 2016
  • The Globe and Mail 100 books that shaped 2019, Helen's Birds
  • Air & Space/Smithsonian Best Children's Books of 2019, The Moon is a Silver Pond
  • Junior Library Guild selections: Helen's Birds, A Boy Named Queen, Double Play
  • CBC Books, Best Books of 2016, A Boy Named Queen
  • Quill and Quire Books of the Year 2016, A Boy Named Queen
  • Cooperative Children's Book Center Best of 2016, A Boy Named Queen
  • VOYA Top Shelf for Middle School Readers 2013, Double Play
  • Canadian selection, Silent Books Collection (IBBY), Helen's Birds
  • Commended, ALA Rainbow Book List – Genius Jolene
  • TD Summer Reading Club, A Boy Named Queen