Awards

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AWARDS and GRANTS:

Kwantlen PD Fund Award, 2006;

B. C. Arts Council Level II Award, 2003;

Canada Council Arts Grant, 1999-2000;

Praxis Film Development Fellowship,  1996-97;

Praxis Film Development Fellowship, 1994-95;

Telefilm Canada Cross-Over Writers Program 1994; 

B.C. Cultural Services Project Grant 1992;   

National Leadership Award for Artistic Achievement, 1991;

Multiculturalism Canada Grant March 1988; 

Canada Council Explorations Grant 1985‑86; 

Bankson Long Fiction Award for novel, SCISSORS, 1984; 

B.C. Cultural Assistance Scholarship (1983‑84); 

Graduate Assistantship U.B.C. (1983‑84); 

B.C. Cultural Assistance Scholarship (1982‑83); 

Gordon Woodward Memorial Scholarship (1982‑83);

Harry & Hilda Smith Foundation Scholarship (1982‑83); 

Burnaby Writers Society Scholarship (1981‑82)

FINALIST FOR: 

PREMIO INTERNAZIONALE DIEGO VALERI (2002) for literary translation for poetry collection Traveling in the Gait of a Fox;

GERALD LAMPERT AWARD for poetry collection Mating In Captivity (1994);

COMMONWEALTH PRIZE 1990 - BEST FIRST NOVEL (Canada/Caribbean Division) for Thrice Upon A Time, 1990;

JOHN GLASSCO TRANSLATION PRIZE (1987) for poetry collection Devour Me Too, 1987;

CBC/SATURDAY NIGHT COMPETITION 1998 (fiction category);

CBC/SATURDAY NIGHT COMPETITION 1997 (fiction category);

CBC/SATURDAY NIGHT COMPETITION 1996 (personal essay category);

CBC/SATURDAY NIGHT COMPETITION 1995 (fiction category);

CBC COMPETITION 1988 (poetry category).