grants & awards

• Canada Council Literary Arts Development Grant (1997)

• Hawthornden Fellowship (1998)

• Canada Council Creative Writing Grant (1999)

• Unpublished manuscript Sophie's Blood wins the The H.R. (Bill) Percy Novel Prize (2001)

• Canada Council Creative Writing Grant (2002)

• Canada Council Creative Writing Grant (2005)

• Canada Council Creative Writing Grant (2007)

• Short Story collection Evidence shortlisted for the 2009 Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Prize

• Short Story collection Evidence wins 2009 Margaret and John Savage First Book Award

• Short Story collection Evidence runner-up for the 12th Annual Danuta Gleed Literary Award

• Short Story collection Evidence wins silver medal at the 2009 Independent Publisher Book Awards (Short Story Fiction category)

• Short Story collection Evidence shortlisted for the 2009 ReLit Awards (Short Fiction category)

• Canada Council Travel Grant (2010)

• Hawthornden Fellowship (2010)

• The Crimes of Hector Tomas wins Trade Fiction Book of the Year at the 2013 Alberta Book Publishing Awards

• Canada Council Creative Writing Grant (2016)

• Perfect World shortlisted in the book design category at the 2017 Alberta Book Publishing Awards.

• A Dark House and other stories shortlisted for the Alistair MacLeod Prize in Short Fiction at the 2020 Atlantic Book Awards.

• A Dark House and other stories shortlisted for the 2020 Miramichi Reader Best Short Fiction Award.

• A Dark House and other stories shortlisted for the 2020 Relit Awards.

• The Confessions of Joseph Blanchard wins the 2022 Guernica Prize.