AWARDS & RECOGNITION
- 2020 Bank Street Best Book for Pumpkin Orange, Pumpkin Round
- The International Book Award for Best Cover Design for La Brigantessa (Designer: Val Fullard)
- The Miramichi Reader's "The Very Best!" Book Award for Best Cover Art for La Brigantessa
- Finalist, Northern Lit Award for La Brigantessa
- Finalist, Canadian Authors Association Fred Kerner Book Award for La Brigantessa
- Was awarded Gold* for La Brigantessa in the Historical Fiction Category of the Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY AWARDS) in April 2019 (*It was a tie with John Thorndike for his novel: A Hundred Fires in Cuba, published by Beck & Branch)
- Third Place Winner in Canadian Authors Association “National Voices” Fiction Contest, Vancouver Branch in 2016
- Was awarded an Ontario Arts Council Writer’s Reserve Grant for “Zach Collection,” a series of stories for children, February 2008
- Won an OECTA (Ontario English Catholic Teachers’ Association) Best Practice Award for Essay: Reflections on Death and Life, Elementary Division, June 2007
- Was awarded an Ontario Arts Council Writer’s Works-In-Progress Grant for manuscript entitled La Brigantessa: The Life of a Female Brigand, August 2006
- Won an OECTA Best Practice Award for Essay: Helping Pupils Who Grieve, Elementary Primary Division, June 2005
- Won first prize in the Northern Life Short Story Contest, Sudbury, ON, January 2005
- Won an OECTA Best Practice Award for Article Reflecting on Practice: My Picture Program, Elementary Division, June 2004
- Won an OECTA Best Practice Award for Article Reflecting on Practice: The Circle of Love, Elementary Primary Division, June 2002
- One of 40 semi-finalists for the 3rd Annual Chapters/Robertson Davies Prize 2001
- One of 50 semi-finalists for the 2nd Annual Chapters/Robertson Davies Prize 2000
- 2nd Prize for “Cycles,” a short story in the Northern Life Short Story Contest, Sudbury, ON, November 1999
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