Awards

Grants:

*2013-2014 Ontario Arts Council Writers’ Reserve

*2012-2013 Ontario Arts Council Writers’ Reserve

Writing Awards for Poetry

*2007 Ted Plantos Memorial Award

*2011 Editor-in-Chief Choice Award from Mobius Magazine

*1st place, The Ontario Poetry Society’s Golden Grassroots Poetry Chapbook Award for the manuscript Chalk Dust Clouds, 2017

*1st place, The Ontario Poetry Society’s (TOPS) No Matter What Shape Your Poem is Contest 2005 and The Lah Dee Dah Dee Dah Poetry Contest 2009

*1st place, The Adult Poetry Category, The Lake Winnipeg Writers’ Group (LWWG) Write on the Lake Contests in 2018 and 2019

*1st place, The Sarnia-Lambton Alzheimer Society “Forget Me Not” Writing Contest (Adult Poetry) 2013; 2nd place in 2012

*2nd place, Canadian Poetry Association (CPA) Annual Membership Poetry Contest 2006

*2nd place in Adult Category, 2007 Dan Sullivan Memorial Poetry Contest

*2nd, 3rd and runner-up prizes in The Ontario Poetry Society 2014 Ultra Short Poem Competition

*2nd prize and an honourable mention award in The Ontario Poetry Society The Ghastly Gruesome Poetry Contest 2022

*3rd place in the Big Pond Rumours 1st Annual Chapbook Contest for the manuscript Drawing From Experience, 2017

*3rd place and an honourable mention award in the Brooklin Poetry Society 4th Annual Poetry Contest 2021

*3rd place in Individual Poem Category, Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick (WFNB) 2010 Literary Competition

*3rd place in Adult Category, 2006 Toward the Light Poetry Contest

*3rd place in The Ontario Poetry Society’s 2014 The Food for Thought Poetry Competition and 3rd place for the 2016 Arborealis Prize for Poetry.

**Shortlisted in FreeFall 2008 Prose and Poetry Contest

*Finalist in the West End Writers 2009 Writing Contest

*Third Honourable Mention in The Ontario Poetry Society’s Golden Grassroots Chapbook Award 2013

*Third Honourable Mention in Mobius Magazine’s the fourth Dr. Zylpha Mapp Robinson International Poetry Award Contest

*Third Honourable Mention in The Traditional Verse Category of the Craigleigh Press 2016 Poetry Contest

*Honourable Mention awards in various other contests: Ascent Aspirations Magazine Anthology Five Poetry Competition 2008; Big Pond Rumours Poetry Contest Summer 2006 and their Winter 2019 Contest; The Binnacle’s Annual Ultra-Short Competitions 2010 to 2012 and 2014 to 2017; Canadian Author’s Association (Niagara Branch) The Saving Bannister anthology contest 2011 and 2015, 2020 and 2022; Canadian Poetry Association (CPA) Annual Membership Poetry Contest in 2006 and 2007; Dr. William Henry Drummond Poetry Contest 2015 and numerous contests organized by The Ontario Poetry Society 2004 to 2019 and 2022.

*Runner-up prize in the LWWG Write On The Lake 2019 contest.

*Judges Selections award from Canadian Author’s Association (Niagara Branch) The Saving Bannister anthology contests in 2004, 2007 to 2012, 2015, 2019, 2020, and 2022; the Cranberry Tree Press Themed Poetry Anthology Contests in 2006 to 2008; The Dr William Drummond Poetry Contest 2019; and The Ontario Poetry Society’s Sparkle and Shine Poetry Contest 2014, The Epic Proportions Poetry Competition 2016; the Food for Thought Poetry Competition 2015, The Picture Perfect Poetry Chapbook Anthology Contest in 2015, and The Ultra Best Short Verse Contests in 201?, 2020 and 2021

UPDATED: October 28, 2022