- Poem “Breaking variations: on the death of the eldest sibling” longlisted for the 2019 CBC Poetry Prize
- Short story “Rapunzel” shortlisted for the 2019 SIWC Short Story Contest
- Manuscript for novel Giantess longlisted for Guernica Prize for Literary Fiction, August 2019
- Beyond Mile Zero: The Vanishing Alaska Highway Lodge Community wins a gold award in the 2017 Foreword Indies, non-fiction travel book category
- Beyond Mile Zero: The Vanishing Alaska Highway Lodge Community receives a 2018 silver IPPY award in the Travel Essay category
- Lily Gontard and Mark Kelly awarded the Yukon Historical Museums Associations’ Innovation, Education and Community Engagement Award for 2017
- Emerging Northern Writers and Artists Fund, Northern Public Affairs 2016
Happenings in my creative world