Kuipers' debut young adult novel in 2007,
Life on the Refrigerator Door, the Sheffield Libraries Choice Award and the Grand Prix de Viarmes. The audio version of the novel was narrated by
Amanda Seyfried and
Dana Delany in 2007. It was adapted for theatre and staged in London, England, in 2014 and in
Paris, France, in 2016.
Life on the Refrigerator Door is told through a series of notes and post-its written from a mother to her fifteen-year-old daughter before and during a family crisis. Kuipers' second young adult novel in 2010,
The Worst Thing She Ever Did (
Lost For Words in the U.S.), sold in 9 territories and won the Arthur Ellis Award, Best Juvenile/YA Crime Book 2011 and the OLA White Pine Official Selection 2011. This novel deals with confronting past tragedy and is set in London, England.
40 Things I Want To Tell You was published in 2012 and rights were sold in Germany, Greece, Denmark and Croatia. It won a Saskatchewan Book Award for Young Adult Literature in 2013 and was a 2013 Young Adult Honour Book for the Canadian Library Association. Kuipers' third novel is about a teenage writer of an on-line advice column for teenagers, who is unable to follow her own good advice. In 2014, three books by Kuipers were published.
The Death of Us, a young adult novel, is a coming of age story about two young girls involved in a deadly car accident. As well,
The Best Ever Bookworm Book, by Violet and Victor Small, a book for children illustrated by Bethanie Murguia, and
Lost and Curious Things, an interactive
ebook, were published. In 2015, Kuipers' short story,
Ten Minutes, "the raw, beautiful story of a young woman's journey towards self-awareness and wellness" was released. Two more books by Kuipers were published in 2016:
Violet and Victor Write the Most Fabulous Fairytale, again with illustrator Bethanie Murguia, as well as
Secrets of the Badlands, an interactive ebook. In 2017, Kuipers released another young adult novel,
Me (and) Me, about a rising rock star, forced to make a terrible choice "and in that moment her world splits into two distinct lives". Kuipers' non-fiction has been published in
Easy Living Magazine, the
Sunday Telegraph and the
Bristol Review of Books. She has been an invited lecturer and workshop leader at several festivals, including
Montreal Blue Met Festival, Brisbane Festival of Literature,
The Word on the Street Saskatoon,
Wordfest Calgary, and
The Vancouver Writers Fest, and was keynote presenter at the
Saskatchewan Festival of Words in 2010. In 2008, she won the Saskatchewan Lieutenant Governor's Artists Award '30 Below' for young artists. In 2010, she spent a year as Saskatoon Public Library Writer in Residence, working with community groups, individuals, Kuipers worked with software developer, Rich Lowenberg, to create the first Writing Tips App for iPhone, which went on to be the second bestselling app in the Educational Apps Listings in both the US and Canada in 2010. == Published works ==