- Drowning Lessons voted one of the four favourite Trillium winners in Open Book's "Favourite Titles from the Past 24 Years" contest, 2012
- WildCare Tasmania Nature Writing Prize, 2009
- The LBJ: Avian Life, Literary Arts (Reno, NV). The Sparrow Prize for Prose, 2008
- CV2, two-day poem contest. Second prize, 2007
- Prairie Fire, creative non-fiction contest. First prize, 2006
- The Trillium Book Award for Poetry, Drowning Lessons, 2005
- Arc (Ottawa), 7th Annual Poem of the Year Contest. First prize, 2002
- Arc (Ottawa), 6th Annual Poem of the Year Contest. Second prize, 2001
- Grain Magazine, 12th Annual Short Grain Contest, Prose Poems. Second prize, 2001
- Scholarship for the Writing Studio (poetry) at the Banff Centre, Fall 1998.
- Sage Hill Writing Experience, Saskatchewan. Myrna Kostash Scholarship in Creative Non-Fiction, Aug. 1997
- CV2, poetry competition. Second prize, 1997
- Ontario Arts Council, Writers' Reserve Grant (sponsored by Books In Canada), Jan. 1997
- Saskatchewan Writers Guild, Colony Committee. Half the Saskatchewan Story Scholarship, Summer 1996
- Ontario Arts Council, Writers' Reserve Grant (sponsored by Wolsak & Wynn), Fall 1995
- Ontario Arts Council, Writers' Reserve Grant (sponsored by Brick Books), Fall 1994
- Ontario Arts Council, Arts Writers Project Grant, March 1990
- Governor-General's Silver Medal, University of Toronto, 1966
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