1984 Western Magazine Award for Fiction ("Never Tears For California")

1985 Canadian Fiction Magazine Annual Contributors' Prize ("Scent of Young Girls Dying")

1987 Okanagan Fiction Award ("China")

1990 CBC Canadian Literary Award (First Prize) ("Peggy Lee In Africa")

1993 CBC Canadian Literary Award (Second Prize) ("Wild Dogs")

1995 National Magazine Award Nomination ("Frozen Blood")

1996 Western Magazine Award for Fiction ("The Last Casanova of Regina")

2002 Relit Award Nomination for Short Fiction (The Truth About Love)

2003 Prairie Fire Short Fiction Awards (1st Honorable Mention) ("Hieroglyphics I")

2004 Lorian Hemingway Short Story Award (Second Prize) ("Beggars")

2005 Prairie Fire Creative Non-Fiction Prizes (Honorable Mention ) ("The Secret Language")