Selected awards:
1998: Nominated for the Alberta Writers’ Guild Book of the Year, the George Bugnet Award for Night Train to Nykøbing.
1996: Alberta Writers’ Guild Best Poetry Award (Stephan G. Stephannson Award for Poetry) for Exiles Among You
1996: Alberta Writers’ Guild Best Fiction Award, the George Bugnet Award, for The Rose Garden
1995: Anne Malena’s translation, La maraude, of The Prowler by Kristjana Gunnars nominated for Governor General’s Award for Translation (English into French)
1992: Nominated for the Alberta Writers’ Guild Book of the Year Award for The Substance of Forgetting.
1991: Nominated for Governor General’s Award for Nonfiction for Zero Hour
1990: Nominated for the Alberta Publisher’s Association 1989 Book of the year Award for The Prowler.
1990: Nominated for the W.H. Smith/Books in Canada 1989 First Novel Award for The Prowler
1989: The McNally Robinson Manitoba Book of the Year for The Prowler
1988: 2nd place, CBC Literary Prize for Poetry, for cycle of poems included in Carnival of Longing
Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild Annual Literary Awards, Third prize, poetry. 1980.
Also:
Ontario Arts Council Awards 1981, 1984.
Manitoba Arts Council Awards 1983, 1985.
Manitoba Arts Council Senior Arts Award 1985.
Alberta Foundation for the Literary Arts 1986, 1987.