Denatured: Stories of Change, chapbook, chosen for publication in ELJ Editions‘ Grieving Hope.

Longlisted for Fractured Lit Ghost, Fable, and Fairy Tales Prize, 2024.

This Bud’s for You longlisted for the SmokeLong Quarterly.

After Grief longlisted for the The Welkin Mini 2024.

Flight nominated for The Pushcart Prize by Kelp Journal.

Fish out of Water nominated for The Pushcart Prize by Gone Lawn Journal.

What Happened to Meg? nominated for Best Small Fictions 2024 by Milk Candy Review.

Mrs. Wilcox longlisted for The Smokelong Workshop Prize.

The Truth of It longlisted for The Smokelong Grand Micro Competition.

Awarded residency at Dorland Mountain Arts, November 2023.

How to Survive a Hurricane recognized as Highly Commendable by Oxford Flash Fiction Prize 2023.

Adrift named 2023 Anthology Winner by Fractured Lit.

Upside to Gravity included in Awakenings: Stories of Body & Consciousness.

Cleaning House longlisted for Wigleaf Top 50 2023.

Awarded residency at Dorland Mountain Arts, December 2022.

Cleaning House nominated for Best Microfiction 2022 by Reckon Review.

Soar nominated for Best of the Net 2022 by FlashFlood.

Awarded second place 2021 Society of Professional Journalist/Hawaii Online News Reporting for this story in National Geographic about Wisdom the Laysan albatross.

How to Change the Oil on the Car nominated for Best Microfiction 2021 by FlashFlood.

Named Storyknife Fellow, September 2021.

Awarded Honorable Mention. Best Shortform Science Writing: July – December 2020. News, Investigative, or Data (601 – 1400 words), for this story.

Recognized in Notable Travel Writing of 2019 by The Best American Travel Writing, series editor Jason Wilson, guest editor Robert MacFarlane, for this story.

Named runner-up 2017 Society Professional Journalist/Hawaii Best Features Blog for Tracking Twain.

Named inaugural Storyknife Fellow, 2016.

Named National Tropical Botanical Garden Environmental Journalism Fellow, 2016.

Named Winner 2016 Society Professional Journalist/Hawaii Best Features Blog for Malama Monk Seal Voyage: A Journey into Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument to Save Endangered Hawaiian Monk Seals. Judges’ comment: “These blogs were real page-turners (figuratively, not literally). A fascinating read of Kim Rogers’ adventures chronicling a ship’s quest to save Hawaiian monk seals. An incredible trip interestingly told.”

Awarded Dinkelspiel Scholarship, Squaw Valley Community of Writers, 2010.

Awarded Eloise Klein Healy Scholarship, Antioch University Los Angeles, 2005.