2017 | Sociological Review Foundation | travel bursary & graphic novel Workshop
Manchester Digital Laboratory (UK)

2015 | Autodesk Pier 9 four-month curated artists residency program (San Francisco, USA)

2012 | Best Exhibit (dissertation work) University of Dundee (Scotland)
2011 | Institute of Medical Illustrators | student scholarship


2011 | Institute of Medical Illustrators | Pat Turnbull travel award
 (UK)
2009 | Ontario Arts Council | exhibition assistance grant
 (CA)
2008 | Xeric Foundation | self-publishing assistance grant

 (USA)
2008 | Ontario Arts Council | emerging artist grant

 (CA)
2005 | Book Publishers’ Professionals Association | scholarship (CA)

2025 | Comic Invasion Festival Berlin | “’Mirror, mirror, on the page’: Chronicling Inner and ‘Other’ worlds in comics” (workshop leader on comics creation – in German)
2024/25 | ‘Comic als Kommunikationsmittel’ | guest lecturer on creating comics as part of the course ‘Graphic Medicine und Psychiatrie: Einsatz von Graphic Novels in der medizinischen Ausbildung und Patientenversorgung‘ | Universität Magdeburg (in German)
2022 | Anarchic scribbles with ballpoint pen: a drawing workshop and ode to the bicycle | Freilauf Fahrrad Festival (Berlin) (in German)
2019 | ‘a Dialect of Images: Examining the translation of text to comic in an adaption of Kafka’  | (seminar workshop leader) | Freie university (Berlin) (in German)
2018 | ‘Sisyphus in graphic narrative and the academy: building bridges between practise and theory in artistic research’ | Drawing Yourself In and Out of It: 2nd International Comics Conference | speaker. | (Amsterdam)
2018 | ‘Constructing Space, Building Place: Topographies of Comics and Visual Narration’ poster presentation 
University of Cologne (DE)
2018 | ‘Illustrating and illuminating 
the space between process 
and product in graphic narratives’ | 
Graphic Medicine conference | Center for Cartoon Studies (White River Junction, Vermont, USA)
2017 | Sketching in Practise Symposium | workshop leader | Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, CA)
2017 | ‘An Alphabet of Peripatetic Lines: on reading (and ‘writing’) wordless stories‘ | (workshop leader) Graphic Medicine conference (Seattle, USA)
2017 | Sociological Review Foundation Graphic Novel Workshop
Manchester Digital Laboratory (UK)
2017 | ‘Understanding wordless comics’ | Anatomy of the Image conference
speaker | Monash university (Melbourne, AUS)
2016 | Transitions: New directions in Comic Studies | workshop leader
University of London | Birbeck College | (London, UK)
2016 | Pathography and Graphic Medicine: The Genres of Pathographics
workshop | Freie university (Berlin)
2009 | ‘No Rules, No Budget, All Fun! How and why you should make comics’
invited panelist | Word on the Street literature festival (Toronto)
2007 | Nuit Blanche “Graphic Novel Cabaret” (event organized by the Toronto Public Library and the Beguiling) | invited panelist (Toronto)
2007 | Art Gallery of York University and 
“The Spot” community centre
workshop (leader)  in DIY, small press, comics 
and book-making (Toronto)

2025 (upcoming) | Bad Weather (Remembrance of Therapy Past) (comic) | Carte Blanche magazine
2021 | Anatomy of the Medical Image (contributor) | Brill press
2018 | PathoGraphics: Narrative, Aesthetics, Contention, Community (interview and comic) | Penn State university press
2011 | The Beginning is the End 
| contributing illustrator (X-Lab Gallery)

2010 | No More Potlucks 10 (magazine | contributing illustrator)
2010 | Descant literary journal (dance issue)

2006-10 |  Brick Literary Journal 
issues 77/78/ 81-85

2009 | nomediakings.org | 
a self-publishing comics primer
2009 | Top Shelf 2.0 | guest artist

2006-08 |  Kiss Machine magazine

2008 | Queer Zines | survey anthology by Philip Aarons and AA Bronson of Printed Matter NY (collage/illustrations)

2008 | THIS magazine | ”[Read This] TeaTime“

2008 | Rue Morgue (issue 79) | “Blood in Four Colours” spotlight on The Details 

2007 | Broken Pencil magazine (issue 37) | 
The Haircut (excerpted)

2007 | Broken Pencil magazine (issue 35)
 The Alteration (reviewed)

2007 | Geist magazine issue 66

2021 – present | Talkin’ Taboos
discussion event series curator/facilitator
2019 – 2020 | Death Café
discussion group | event co-organiser/facilitator

2025 | Nantes Writers Workshop (week-long intensive creative writing)
2025 | Berlin Writers Workshop (creative writing II)
2024 | Berlin Writers Workshop (creative writing I)