POETRY AWARDS

• Norma Epstein Foundation Award for Poetry ("Somewhere Between"), University of Toronto, 1965.
  
• The Book Cellar Mother's Day Poem Competition, Winner ("Mrs. Lin"), 1982.
  
• Canadian Authors Association (Alberta) Competition, Sonnet Category, Third Prize ("I want to twist your face into the dark"), 1983.
  
• Arts Scarborough City Poetry Contest, First and Grand Prize ("Gathering"), 1987.
  
• People's Poetry Contest, Second Runner-up ("Night Highway, Freezing Rain"), 1996.

POETRY HONOURABLE MENTIONS

• Canadian Authors Association ("Cheerleader Practice"), 1979; ("Rachel: A Feline Fable" and "In My Morning Bed"), 1980; ("Life Class: Three Views" and "Plaza: Late December"), 1981; ("Brass Tacks, Baby" and "Second Thoughts"), 1982; ("Salon, Saturday Morning"), 1988; ("Waiting", pseudonym Sam Thomas), 1989.
  
• Nova Scotia Poetry Awards ("Into Another Sky"), 1989.
  
• Sandburg-Livesay Anthology Contest ("Kosovo" and "Srebrenica Suite"), 1999.

POETRY FINALIST

• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Writing Competition (poems), 1986.
  
• The League of Canadian Poets National Poetry Contest ("Srebrenica Suite"), 1994.
  
• The People's Poem Contest ("Night Highway, Freezing Rain"), 1996.

POETRY GRANTS

• Ontario Arts Council Writers' Reserve/Cormorant Books, The New Quarterly, Penumbra Press ("Tempora" poems), 1993/1994.
  
• Ontario Arts Council Writers' Reserve/Greey de Pencier ("Magic Boots" and other children's poems), 1994/1995.
  
• Ontario Arts Council Works in Progress ("Petra" poems), 2002/2003.

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