- 2014 Guest Author for Cantilevers: Journal of the Arts
- 2013 Grand Prize Winner of Origami Zoo Press's Tweet-Sized Fairy Tale Contest.
- 2013 Winner of Figment.com's "Find Your Inner Strength: The Sweetest Dark Flash" contest for Here Is a Heart
- 2013 Winner of Figment.com's "Time Between Us" contest for Afternoon at Noodledom Palace.
- 2012 Winner of Figment.com's "Probability of Miracles" contest for Skeleton Friend
- 2011 Winner of Figment.com's "Let Them Eat Figs" contest for The Princess & Her Shadow
- 2011 Winner of Figment.com's "Serial Contest" for Flour House
- 2011 Runner Up of Figment.com's "New Years" contest for Disappear
- 2010 Wesley Ryals Award in Fiction
- 2009 Student Writing Award in Fiction
- 2007 First Place in Science Fiction & Fantasy Writing Award
- 2007 Runner Up in TOKYOPOP's Alex Unlimited Contest
- January 2015. "Episode 46: A Swoon Reads Author" podcast by Jane from Doing It By the Book.
- June 2014. "Interview with Kimberly Karalius" by Riley from Book Blog!
- February 2014. "Fav Five Friday #1 + Blogger of the Week" by Namie of Good Morning Lovely.
- November 2013. "Quick Five with Kimberly Karalius" by Tania Lasenburg of Motifink.
- February 2013. "Our Writers: Kimberly Karalius" by White Ash Literary Magazine.
- October 2011. "The Friday Fig: Kimberly Karalius" by Anande Sjoden on her blog, Honey and Snow.
- July 2011. "The Magical (Serialized) Imagination of Kimberly Karalius" by LiAnn Yim on her blog (aka the amazing Linna Lee on Figment).
