Awards
- 2nd Place Winner of the Short Grain Fiction Contest (Grain, 2024)
- Winner of the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award (Atlantic Book Awards, 2023)
- Finalist for the ReLit Award for Fiction (ReLit Awards, 2023)
- Shortlisted for the Joy Kogawa Award for Fiction (Surrey Muse Awards, 2022)
- Longlisted for the Bridge Prize (University of Lethbridge, 2022)
- Shortlisted for the Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest (Geist, 2022)
- Shortlisted for the Annual Fiction Contest (The Fiddlehead, 2020)
- 1st Place Winner of the Sheldon Currie Fiction Prize (The Antigonish Review, 2018)
Press
- ReLit Awards announce 2023 long shortlists (Quill & Quire, September 25, 2023)
- Dal grad wins $30k literary prize for powerful debut novel (Dal News, Aug. 18, 2023)
- Meet the Halifax author writing about queer joy (The Coast, June 29, 2023)
- Author from Niverville Wins Literary Award for Debut Novel (The Citizen, June 23, 2023)
- Novelist from Manitoba wins award (CTV Morning Live Winnipeg, June 15, 2023)
- The speech that stole the show at this year’s Atlantic Book Awards (The Coast, June 8, 2023)
- Finalists announced for 2023 Atlantic Book Awards (Quill & Quire, Apr. 12, 2023)
- Recording of Free Press Book Club Livestream (Winnipeg Free Press, Feb. 27, 2023)
- Byggdin brings debut novel to book club (Winnipeg Free Press, Feb. 17, 2023)
- Why I Wrote This Book (The Miramichi Reader, Feb. 6, 2023)
- Review of Wonder World by K.R. Byggdin (ROOM Magazine, Jan. 15, 2023)
- Top 22 of ’22: Our Books of the Year (49th Shelf, Dec. 12, 2022)
- Here are the 12 local books that topped our reading lists in 2022 (The Coast, Dec. 5, 2022)
- Examiner Book Club: Wonder World by K.R. Byggdin (Halifax Examiner, Jul. 12, 2022)
- Top 10 reads for Pride month (Toronto Star, Jun. 21, 2022)
- Small Press Bookwatch (Midwest Book Review, Jun. 1, 2022)
- K.R. Byggdin’s debut novel tackles quest for belonging (Saltwire.com, May 1, 2022)
- A Narrative of Hope: New Novel Celebrates Rural Diversity (The Citizen, Apr. 27, 2022)
- “Wonder”‑ful launch: FASS student celebrates debut novel (Dal News, Apr. 27, 2022)
- Recording of Wonder World‘s Winnipeg launch (McNally Robinson Booksellers, Apr. 23, 2022)
- 5 Menno Lit Books to Look for in Spring 2022 (Mennotoba, Apr. 22, 2022)
- Niverville expat returns to Southeast with debut novel (The Carillon, Apr. 21, 2022)
- 5 Questions with Author K.R. Byggdin (Mennotoba, Apr. 18, 2022)
- Podcast Episode 75: K.R. Byggdin (The Tideline with Tara Thorne, Apr. 14, 2022)