2021

• First Place Winner, Columbia College Chicago Young Authors Contest (Poetry) – Ghazal For K (May 2021)
• Honorable Mention, Walt Witman Student Poetry Contest – Archery Lesson With Your Fake Father (May 2021) 
• Runner up, Animal Heart Press Chapbook Contest — TW·EYE·LIGHT (Mar 2021)
• Honorable Mention, 2021 Coastal Art & Poetry Contest — Briny Cravings In a Dream (Mar 2021)
• 1st Place Winner and Finalist, F(r)iction Fall Poetry Contest — Under the neon of nightmarket selected by poetry judge Rachel Mennies (Mar 2021)
• First Place Winner, Fitzgerald Museum Student Literary Contest — THIS SIDE, REIMAGINED (Mar 2021)
• ​Silver Key (x4), Honorable Mention (x2), Scholastic Art & Writing Awards

2020

• Pushcart Prize Nominee, Perhappened Magazine — haibun for everything that dies this summer (Nov 2020)
• Pushcart Prize Nominee, Knight's Library Magazine — Lineage (Nov 2020)
• 2nd & 3rd Place, PTSA Annual Reflections Award, Literature Category (Poetry) — Escapade and Lost Things (2020)​​
• National Winner, JUST POETRY National Poetry Quarterly — monsoon season (Jul 2020) 
• Full Tuition Merit Scholarship, Cherry Tree Young Writers' Conference ​(Jul 2020)
• Finalist, Pulitzer Center Fighting Words Poetry Contest — River War (Jun 2020)
• Best Written Piece, Braille Institute Creative Expressions Contest — smudge (May 2020)  

 ​​“This beautiful poem [Kim's poem "This Side, Reimagined"] speaks directly into the legacy of Fitzgerald's literature and unfinished buildings. In an intertextual key, the poet converses across time with F. Scott's novel, creating sparks with each enjambment. In looking at war, the poem revises what man learns from it, turning the usual lesson on its head while placing this in the context of Fitzgerald's life. Daring and revolutionary in a soft way - in a way that challenges the modality and aggression of war itself - Kim recontextualizes the past in lyric." - Judge Alina Stefanescu (THIS SIDE, REIMAGINED)