Awards and Nominations


Scotiabank Giller Prize (long-listed) - Lemon  2010
Trillium Book Award (nominated) - Lemon  2010
The ReLit Award (nominated) - Lemon  2010
The ReLit Award (nominated) - Planet Reese 2007
The ReLit Award (nominated) - Blind Night  2005
K. M. Hunter Artists' Award - Blind Night  2001
The ReLit Award (nominated) - The Barking Dog  2000
Toronto Arts Foundation Protege Award for Writing - Teaching Pigs to Sing  1996;
Governor-General's Award For Fiction (nominated) - Teaching Pigs to Sing  1996;
 WH Smith/Books in Canada First Novel Award (nominated) - Alex & Zee  1995;  
Nellie Award, Best Dramatic Performance by an Actor in Radio - Cordelia Strube 
in Attached  1988
Nellie Award, Best Radio Drama - Attached  1988
CBC Literary Competition - Mortal   1987;
Prix Italia (nominated) - Mortal  1987.
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