Awards, etc.

Listed chronologically:

2006

Tesseracts 9, an anthology of Canadian-authored science fiction and fantasy edited by Geoff Ryman and myself, wins Canada's Aurora Award for science fiction and fantasy.
Six Impossible Things, a radio anthology of fantastical fiction edited by Joe Mahoney and myself and produced by Joe Mahoney, is shortlisted for the Aurora Award.

$The award was for an essay I wrote about the experience of running into the path of a moving car at ten years old and fracturing my leg.$

2005

So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction and Fantasy, edited by Uppinder Mehan and myself (cover image by Ho Che Anderson!), is shortlisted for Canada's Aurora Award.

2004

The Salt Roads is shortlisted for the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award for black writing.
The Salt Roads wins the Gaylactic Spectrum Award (for GLBTQ themes in science fiction and fantasy).

2003

Skin Folk wins the Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic.
Skin Folk also wins the World Fantasy Award.
The Salt Roads is on the Final ballot for the Nebula Award.

2002

2001

Midnight Robber is shortlisted for the Sunburst Award.
Midnight Robber is on the Final ballot for the Nebula Award.
Midnight Robber and stories from Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction earn four of eleven shortlist positions for the James R. Tiptree Jr. Award.
Midnight Robber is shortlisted for the Philip K. Dick Award.

2000

Midnight Robber is a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.

1999

Winner, John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.
Brown Girl in the Ring listed in the New York Public Library's annual recommendation publication "Books For the Teen Age."
Brown Girl in the Ring wins Locus Award, First Novel Category.

1998

Recipient, Ontario Arts Council Foundation Award for Emerging Writers.
Brown Girl in the Ring shortlisted for the Philip K. Dick Award and the James Tiptree Junior Award.

1997

Winner, Warner Aspect First Novel Contest (prize was publication of novel "Brown Girl in the Ring"), judged by author C. J. Cherryh and by Warner Aspect.

1994

Short story Midnight Robber tied for second place in the 1994 Short Prose Competition for Developing Writers, sponsored by the Writers' Union of Canada.