honors.

[WRITING AWARDS]

Ontario Community Newspapers Association — 2024 BNC Awards, 2nd place in News Writing (May 2025).

Ontario Community Newspapers Association — 2023 BNC Awards, 2nd place in News Writing (May 2024).

Canadian University Press — 2023 John H. MacDonald Awards, 1st place in Op-Ed Writing (Jan 2024).

Youth Journalism International — 2022 Excellence in Journalism Awards, 2nd place in Theater & Film Review (Jan 2022). 

Youth Journalism International — 2022 Excellence in Journalism Awards, 2nd place in Book Review (Jan 2022). 

Bow Seat — Tenth Annual Ocean Awareness Contest, Distinguished Honorable Mention for Poetry & Spoken Word, (Nov 2021).

University of Waterloo — Goose Week Writing Contest, 1st place for Short Story (Aug 2021).

The New York Times — 2021 New York Times Podcast Contest, Honorable Mention (July 2021).

The New York Times — 2021 New York Times Summer Reading Contest, 2nd place (July 2021).

Alliance for Young Artists & Writers — 2021 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, Silver Key for Critical Essay, Region-at-Large division (Jan 2021)

The New York Times — 2020 New York Times Summer Reading Contest, 2nd place (Aug 2020).

Write the World — Album Review Competition, 1st place (Nov 2019).

[ACADEMIC AWARDS/SCHOLARSHIPS]

University of Waterloo Department of English — Albert Shaw Annual Poetry Award (Mar 2025).

University of Waterloo Department of English — English Society Creative Writing Award for Poetry (Mar 2025).

University of Waterloo Department of English — Olive Carrick Scholarship in English (Apr 2024).

St. Jerome’s University — Betty Headley Senior Essay Award (Mar 2025).

University of Waterloo Department of English — Olive Carrick Scholarship in English (Apr 2024).

Benard & Associates — Benard & Associates Scholarship (July 2021).

University of Waterloo — President’s Scholarship of Distinction (May 2021).

Bank of Montreal — BMO Undergraduate Entrance Scholarship (May 2021).