AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS
Toronto Book Award (winner) - On The Shores of Darkness There Is Light 2016
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
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Nellie Award, Best Radio Drama - Attached 1988
CBC Literary Competition (winner) - Mortal 1987;
Prix Italia (nominated) - Mortal 1987.
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 (winner) - Mortal 1987;
Prix Italia (nominated) - Mortal 1987.