AWARDS, HONOURS, RECOGNITION

2021 Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master, lifetime honour from Science Fiction Writers of America. Youngest Grand Master and the first woman of African descent

2018 California State University Eagle-Con 2018 Octavia Butler Memorial Award: celebrates an author whose writing exemplifies the spirit of Butler's work

Inkpot Award for achievements in science fiction, from the San Diego Comics Convention.

Novel Brown Girl in the Ring selected by Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada for its “one book, one community” initiative “Dal Reads”

Short story “Money Tree” selected by actor & literacy advocate LeVar Burton for his podcast “LeVar Burton Reads.”

2017 British Fantasy Award for best anthology, “People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction” (Co-editor, original fiction)

2014 Andre Norton (Nebula) Award, YA Category, novel Sister Mine, from Science Fiction Writers of America.

2008 Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, Novel The New Moon's Arms

Canada's Prix Aurora Award, novel The New Moon's Arms

Finalist, Best Novel, Campbell Memorial Award, The New Moon's Arms

Shortlist, Nebula Award for Science Fiction and Fantasy, The New Moon's Arms

Shortlist, the Mythopoeic Award, The New Moon's Arms

2007 Shortlist, Canada Reads, CBC Radio, novel Brown Girl in the Ring

2004 Shortlist, Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Black writers, novel The Salt Roads

Gaylactic Spectrum Award for positive LGBITQ representation in speculative fiction, The Salt Roads

Shortlist, Nebula Award for Science Fiction and Fantasy, The Salt Roads

Honourable Mention, Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, The Salt Roads

2003 Honourable mention, World's Annual Best Fantasy Short Story, eds Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, "Shift"

Honourable mention, World's Annual Best Fantasy Short Story, eds Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, "Delicious Monster"

2002 Honourable Mention, Novels in Creole, Cuba's Casa de las Americas Prize for Fiction, Midnight Robber.

Shortlist, the World Fantasy Award, short story "Something to Hitch Meat To"

World Fantasy Award, short story collection, Skin Folk

Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, short story collection Skin Folk

2001 Shortlist, the Philip K. Dick Award, novel Midnight Robber

Shortlist, the James R. Tiptree Jr Award, Midnight Robber

Shortlist, the Nebula Award, Midnight Robber

Shortlist, the Sunburst Award (Canada), Midnight Robber

Shortlist, the Hugo Award, Midnight Robber

"Best Books for the Teen Age," New York Public Library, Midnight Robber

Shortlist, the James R. Tiptree, Jr. Award, short story "Greedy Choke Puppy"

Honourable Mention, The Year's Best Science Fiction (2000), ed Gardner Dozois, short story "Greedy Choke Puppy"

Honourable Mention, The Year's Best Science Fiction (2000), ed Gardner Dozois, short story "Ganger (Ball Lightning)"

Shortlist, the World Fantasy Award, edited anthology Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction

2000 Notable Book of the Year, New York Times, novel Midnight Robber

1999 John W. Campbell Award, Best New Writer, Science Fiction Writers of America

Best Books for the Teen Age, New York Public Library, novel Brown Girl in the Ring

Locus Award, First Novel Category, Locus Magazine, Brown Girl in the Ring

1998 Ontario Arts Council Foundation Award for Emerging Writers

Shortlist, Philip K. Dick Award, Brown Girl in the Ring

Shortlist, James R. Tiptree Jr Award, Brown Girl in the Ring