Awards and Recognitions
2025 Alistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction Shortlist
2024 King Charles III Coronation Medal
Have made a significant contribution to Canada or to a particular province, territory, region or community of Canada, or have made an outstanding achievement abroad that brings credit to Canada
2024 Carnegie Medal of Excellence in Fiction Winner for The Berry Pickers
The Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction were established in 2012 to recognize the best fiction and nonfiction books for adult readers published in the U.S. in the previous year.
2024 Crime Writers of Canada Best Crime First Novel Winner for The Berry Pickers
Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence were established in 1984 and are presented annually by the CWC.
2024 Dartmouth Book Award Winner for The Berry Pickers
Established in 1988, the Dartmouth Book Awards honour Nova Scotia literature and recognize the valuable contribution writers make to our cultural heritage.
2023 Barnes and Noble Discovery Prize Winner for The Berry Pickers
The Barnes & Noble Discover Prize for the most exceptional debut novels published in 2023.
2024 Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award Shortlist for The Berry Pickers
One prize is awarded each year for a novel or a book of short fiction that was written by a full-time resident of Atlantic Canada and published and/or distributed for the first time in Canada in the year prior
2023 Amazon (US) Best Books of Second place
"Debut novelist Amanda Peters explores the lengths we go to for love, the cancerous impact of lies, and the unbreakable bonds of family. For fans of Celeste Ng and Ann Patchett, this quietly beautiful book will break, then mend, your heart." —Sarah Gelman, Amazon editorial director
2023 Writers Trust Atwood Gibson Award Shortlist for The Berry Pickers
The Atwood Gibson Prize recognizes writers of exceptional talent for the best novel or short story collection of the year.
2021 Rising Star program from The Writers Trust of Canada
The Writers’ Trust Rising Stars program is a multi-faceted career development program that recognizes talented authors in the early stages of their careers.
Mentored by Katherena Vermette
2021 Indigenous Voices Award Winner Unpublished Prose English
The IVAs were established in 2017 to support and nurture the work of Indigenous writers in lands claimed by Canada. The Indigenous Voices Awards aim to support Indigenous literary production in its diversity and complexity.
Story: Waiting for the Long Night Moon
2018 Finalist Indigenous Voices Awards Unpublished Prose in English
The IVAs were established in 2017 to support and nurture the work of Indigenous writers in lands claimed by Canada. The Indigenous Voices Awards aim to support Indigenous literary production in its diversity and complexity.
Story: Pejipug