About Keili
Keili Bartlett is an award-winning journalist based on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia. She is currently pursuing her Master’s degree in Creative Nonfiction Writing and Publishing from the University of King’s College, and is available for freelance opportunities. Her favourite stories happen outside.
Keili has lived up and down the east coast of Canada and the United States, in two states and five provinces. As a graduate of the Bachelor of Journalism Honours program at the University of King’s College (Halifax), Keili focused her studies on online and audio storytelling. She has worked for CBC in England and central Newfoundland, created content for Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, and worked on two issues of Where Canadian Rockies magazine. In 2017, she moved to British Columbia to work for community newspapers in Prince Rupert, then Victoria, Squamish, and Sechelt.
For five consecutive years, small but dedicated newsrooms Keili worked in earned the top spot for Newspaper Excellence in their respective categories at the BC & Yukon Community News Association’s Ma Murray Awards. Her coverage of coastal communities has earned provincial and national accolades:
October Haze. Shot for Coast Reporter, October 2022
In 2023, Keili earned a silver Canadian Community Newspaper Award for her agricultural report about a regenerative farm planted in downtown Sechelt. She also was awarded a silver Ma Murray for a photograph she took of a kayaker’s profile against a blazing orange sunset glowing through the hazy smoke of wildfires.
In 2022, Steven Chua and Keili earned a silver award from the Canadian Community Newspaper Awards (via News Media Canada) for their feature story on people living in vans, “Home is where you park it”.
In 2020, an editorial team Keili was part of earned a gold Ma Murray Award for a multimedia story about police training.
In 2018, Keili earned a gold Ma Murray alongside the Prince Rupert Northern View team for their multimedia feature story about Hammy the Deer’s celebrity status.
Her byline has also appeared in Coast Life, Discover Squamish, Whistler magazine, Wishes Wedding magazine, Pemberton Visitors Guide, alumni publications and more.