In 2018, his book Ten Birthdays won the Romantic Novelists' Association award for Young Adult Novel of the Year.
In March 2023, he wrote an article for The Bookseller, entitled Autism can be a huge publishing strength—and challenge[3] about how he was an adult when he discovered he was autistic.
[10][11] In September 2012, Pan Macmillan announced they had acquired a "fantasy trilogy for young adults",[12] the Silver Blackthorn series, Meanwhile, when the same publisher released the fourth Jessica Daniel book, Think of the Children, it became Amazon UK's no.1 ebook pre-order in February 2013, with the paperback peaking at number 19 on the UK chart.
[13] In August 2013, The Bookseller reported that Pan Macmillan had bought two more books[14] from Wilkinson, including a standalone crime novel, Down Among The Dead Men; and Something Wicked, a spin-off from the Jessica Daniel series.
[22] It also acquired "World All Languages rights for two more addictive psychological thrillers, plus the coming-of-age novel Truly, Madly, Amy"[23] A year later, the publisher said they had "signed a four-book mystery series with bestselling author Kerry Wilkinson".
The company also signed "a pair of linked books, about a girl who goes to a teenage sleepover: but when she wakes up, her friends have vanished.
[31] Wilkinson sponsors the annual short story competition for young writers in his home town of Frome.