Awards
Anthologies
The Vancouver Sun’s Year’s 20 Top Books:Where the Nights are Twice as Long, David Eso and Jeanette Lynes, editors, Goose Lane Rich in loss and endings (longevity too), the love letters of poets are erotic, sometimes erratic, proclamations in the name of love.
Nominated for a 2015 Lambda: Outer Voices, Inner Lives, a collection of LGBTQ writers over 50, ed Mark McNease and Stephen Dolainski (my contribution: the short story “Just Be Glad You Have Heels”)
Books
Weekend: Relit longlist 2018
Hunger: The Ferro-Grumley Awards shortlist; Lambda Literary Awards longlist
Body Rain: Pat Lowther Award shortlist
July Nights: VanCity Award shortlist; BC Book Prize shortlist
Going Santa Fe: 1997 Canadian Poetry Chapbook Award
Mondays are Yellow, Sundays are Grey: MIND Book Award finalist; VanCity book award shortlist; Mind Book Prize shortlist
Jessica’s Elevator: BC School Library Purchase Plan
Stories
2020:
The Pride, Writer’s Digest Short Story Contest, 2nd prize
Abbad, the Duck, Mogford Food and Drink short story contest longlist
2018:
The Gravity of Rocks, Prism International longlist, 2018
2017:
I’ve Got God On Speed Dial, CBC short story contest, 2017
2015:
Battery,CBC Canada Writes cnf long list, 2015
Battery, Lit Pop, 2015, winner, judge: George Saunders
The River of Running Sand, Bristol Short Story Prize, 2015, short list
The Night SS Sloan Undid His Shirt, Exile Carter V Cooper Award, short list
The Storm Chasers, H E Francis Award, 2015, long list
The River of Running Sand, CBC Literary Awards, 2015, long list
2014:
The Ninth Foot, Summer Literary Seminar, Russia, 2014, finalist
The Ninth Foot, Prism International short fiction contest short list, 2014
Smiley, CBC Literary Award, fiction, first prize winner, 2014
older:
Wart’s Ugly, Carve Magazine finalist, 2004
Social Discourse: 1944, Pushcart Prize nomination, 2004
The Lost Boy, CBC Literary Awards, first prize, fiction, 2003
Many People Have Been Gored, Room of One’s Own story contest finalist, 2003
Sperm King, Prism International first prize, 2003
Do You Want Whiskey? Canadian Authors Association contest short list, 2003
Easter, Fish story contest finalist, 2002
Half Waikiki, CBC/En Route contest finalist, 2002
Travel Tips for Girls, Prism International, third prize, 2001
Wax Brains, The New Quarterly, honourable mention, 2001
A Drosophila’s Wings, Real Writers (UK), shortlisted, 2000
Summer Literary Seminar, Russia, 2000, finalist
Summer Literary Seminar, Russia, 2000, finalist
Fat Ankles, Fish Short Story Prize, shortlisted, 1999-2000
Tightrope, Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society contest, finalist, 2000
Anemones, Exotic Erotic Writing Contest runner-up, 1999
Just Be Glad You Have Heels, Stand (UK) fifth place, 1999
Tightrope, Serpentine, Honorable Mention, 1999
Fat Ankles, CBC Literary Awards finalist, 1999
Faulkner Award semi-finalist, 1999
Cretins, H. E. Francis Award finalist, 1999
Canadian Literary Awards short-listed, 1998
Winter, sub-Terrain runner-up, 1998
Graduation, Journey Prize contributor, 1998
Wax Brains, Fish finalist 1998
Territory, This Magazine first prize winner, 1998
How to Have Heart Disease (Without Really Trying), Best American Short Stories Distinguished Story, 1997
Goombay Smash, Prism short fiction first prize winner, 1998
DNA, Thistledown young adult story contest Finalist 1995
How to Have Heart Disease (Without Really Trying), Prism short fiction winner, 1995
Hunger, Paragraph erotic short fiction First 1995
frequent CBC Literary Competition Finalist through the years
Prism short fiction Honourable Mention 1994
Accusation, Prism short fiction winner 1993
Easter, Federation of BC Writers short fiction First 1992
Prism, short fiction finalist, 1991
Grain short-short Finalist 1990
Death in One Another’s Arms, Yellow Silk Best Story of the Year 1988
Death in One Another’s Arms, Pushcart Prize Honourable Mention 1988
Poetry
poem, Game Show, Best Canadian Poetry, 2020
poem, I Am a Scar, Falling, CBC Poetry Prize longlist 2018
poem, Wish You Were Here, Best Canadian Poetry 2016
poem, The Small White Heel, Arc Poem of the Year shortlist
poem, Lesbian Sex, The Montreal Prize longlist
Survivor, finalist ARC contest, 2002
Mr and Mrs Mouse, Summer Literary Seminars, Russia, third prize 2000
Vermilion, Outlaw Editions Chapbook Competition, finalist, 1999
Delor Street, New Letters (University of Missouri) fourth place, 1999
Crescendo, Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society, semi-finalist, 1999
This New Country, Atlanta Review Int’l Merit Award Winner, 1999
Stand honorable mention, 1998
luby’s cafeteria, killeen, texas, Stand, 5th. Prize, 1998
League of Canadian Poets Finalist 1997
Tilden Canadian Literary Awards, Finalist, 1996
Stephen Leacock Poetry Competition, Certificate of Merit, 1995-96
Special Needs, Prairie Fire long poem Honourable Mention 1994
League of Canadian Poets Finalist 1991
Elemental, Absolut Vodka finalist 1991
Non-fiction
The Dead Green Man, Notable, Best American Essays 2021
Splinter, second place, cnf contest The Malahat Review
The Dead Green Man, Event, winner, Non Fiction Contest, 2020
The Nothing Between Your Legs, from Autostraddle, Notable Essay, Best American Essays, 2019, ed Rebecca Solnit
Skinning the Rabbit, from The Sun, Notable Essay, Best American Essays, 2018, ed Hilton Als
Never Say I Didn’t Bring You Flowers, from Full Grown People, Notable Essay, Best American Essays, 2016, ed Jonathan Franzen
Waiting for Dierdre, finalist, CBC Canadian Literary Awards 2004
Being Jane Hamilton, Grain, co-winner Long Grain of Truth, 2002
Being Jane Hamilton, Missouri Review Editors’ Awards runner-up, 2002
Being Jane Hamilton, Prism Maclean Hunter contest shortlist, 2002
Permanent Wave, Prism Maclean Hunter contest shortlist, 2002
On the Piano, Pirate’s Alley Faulkner contest, finalist, 2001
21 Questions, Creative Non-Fiction Walter V Shipley contest, 2001
Girls Like Me (Or Not), Creative Non-Fiction Walter V Shipley contest, 2001
Permanent Wave, Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Award finalist, 1998
Permanent Wave, Belle Lettres, Essay First, 1996
Tilden Canadian Literary Awards, Finalist, 1996
Federation of BC Writers Finalist (humour) 1995
Walking on the Ancestors, Event First 1995
Tilden Finalist 1995
CBC Literary Competition Finalist 1989
Citations
“Piñata,” poem, Poetry in Transit, BC public transit, 1997
“Tulips,” story, Bravo! TV, produced for broadcast in 1996
“Graduation,” story, shortlisted, Journey Prize.
“Goombay Smash,” story, Best Canadian Short Stories
“Territory,” story, shortlisted, Journey Prize
Canadian Who’s Who
“How to Have Heart Disease (Without Really Trying),” story, distinguished, Best American Short Stories, 1997
“Death in One Another’s Arms,” story, cited, Pushcart Prize, 1989
Eaton Hamilton 
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