About Keili
Keili Bartlett is an award-winning journalist based on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia.
After the better part of a decade reporting the news in coastal, underreported communities, Keili found herself pitching more and more stories took her into nature and interviewing scientists. Between town council meetings and breaking news, she decided to pursue more in-depth reporting on the environment. In 2025, Keili graduated from the University of King’s College with her master’s in Creative Nonfiction Writing and Publishing. During her studies, Keili received a Canada Graduate Scholarships - Master’s Program research grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) as well as the Linda Souter Humanities Award from the Canadian Federation of University Women. During her master’s, Keili attended a three-week Mountain Writers Intensive residency at the Banff Centre.
Keili has lived up and down the east coast of Canada and the United States, in two states and five provinces. Since graduating with her Bachelor of Journalism (Honours) from the University of King’s College (Halifax), Keili has worked for CBC in England and central Newfoundland, created content for the 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, 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, Pemberton Visitors Guide, alumni publications and more. Her favourite stories happen outside.