- 2006 Parliamentary Poet Laureate: John Steffler, 2006-2008
- 2003 Winner: Newfoundland and Labrador Book Awards, for Helix: New and Selected Poems
- 1997 Memorial University Artistic Project Grant.
- 1996 Memorial University Vice-President's Special Grant.
- anada Council Short Term and Travel Grants.
- Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council Year of the Arts Grant.
- 1993 The Joseph S. Stauffer Prize, Canada Council.
- Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Prize.
- W.H. Smith/Books in Canada First Novel Award.
- Memorial University Vice-President's Special Grant.
- Sir Wilfred Grenfell College Principal's Grant.
- Short-listed for the Commonwealth Best First Book Prize.
- Short-listed for the Governor General's Award for Fiction.
- 1991 Canada Council Project Grant.
- 1989 Memorial University Vice-President's Special Grant.
- 1988 Canada Council "B" Grant.
- 1987 Memorial University Vice-President's Special Grant.
- 1986 Nominated for a Silver Medal from the Royal Society of the Arts.
- Ontario Arts Council Award.
- 1984 Memorial University Vice-President's Special Grant.
- Newfoundland Arts Council Award.
- Banff School of Fine Arts Scholarship.
- 1983 Canada Council Project Grant.
- 1981 Memorial University Vice-President's Special Grant.
- Canada Council Project Grant.
- 1978 Canada Council Project Grant.
- 1973 Ontario Graduate Fellowship.
- 1972 Ontario Graduate Fellowship.
- 1971 First prize in the University of Toronto's Norma Epstein Creative Writing Competition.
- University of Toronto's Special Woodhouse Prize for English Studies.
- 1970 Second Prize in the University of Toronto's Norma Epstein Creative Writing Competion.
- University of Toronto Woodhouse Scholarship.
- 1969 University of Toronto William Mowbray Scholarship.
- 1968 University of Toronto Arthur Cohen Scholarship.
- 1966 Ontario Scholarship (Secondary School graduation).
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