Awards (selected)

• Alberta Playwrights Network Lifetime Membership, Script Salon, 2025
• Fortuna’s Choice, Muriel’s Journey Poetry Prize, “The Evangelist,” 2025
• Canadian National Playwriting Competition (Finalist) Riverkeeper, 2024
• Judith Royer Playwriting (Finalist) Riverkeeper, 2022
• Alberta Playwriting Competition (Finalist) Riverkeeper, 2021
• Jane Chambers Award (Finalist) Riverkeeper, 2020
• International Flash Fiction (First Prize), “The Potato Thief,” 2021

• Exporting Alberta Award, Winning Chance: Stories, 2020–Canadian Authors’ Association–Alberta Branch
• High Plains Book Award, Short Stories, Winning Chance: Stories, 2020
• Edmonton Book Prize (Finalist), Art Lessons, 2017
• Alberta Readers’ Choice Award (Finalist), Art Lessons, 2017

• Voaden National Playwriting Competition (Finalist), Last Chance Leduc, 2015

 

• Alberta Playwriting Competition, Grand Prize, Last Chance Leduc 2013 –
  

  Alberta Playwrights Network

• Radio Play Competition (Second Place), Abby’s Place 2011 – Sussex Playwrights, U.K.

• Short Story (runner-up), Art Lessons 2010 – Aberta Views

• Rosie (Best Motivational), Getting Out, Staying Safe 2008 – AMPIA

• Pitch to Play, Lily of the Prairie 2006 – Workshop West Theatre

• Write to Win (Hon. Men.), Coal Valley 2004 – Alberta Playwrights Network

• Good to Go, Cowboy Boots 2003 – Female Eye Film Fest, Toronto

• National Screenwriting, Cowboy Boots 2000 – Praxis Centre, Vancouver

• National Screenwriting, Abby’s Place 2000 – Praxis Centre, Vancouver

• Alberta Screenwriting, Abby’s Place 1997 – Television and Film Institute

• Alberta Screenwriting, Cowboy Boots 1996 – Television and Film Institute

• Alberta Playwriting, Rosa’s Garden 1994 – Alberta Foundation for the Arts

• Alberta Write for Radio, Going to the Dump 1994 – CBC Radio

• Alberta Write for Radio, Magpie 1993 – CBC Radio