Notable books
Shop Class Hall Pass: Facing the Buried Trauma of Sexual Assault
- Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher, Finalist
- Saskatchewan Book Award for Non-Fiction, Finalist
This Side of Light: Selected Poems (1995-2020)
- Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher, Finalist
- Finalist for the 2021 Danuta Gleed Literary Award
- Finalist for the 2022 ReLit Award for Short Fiction
- Shortlisted for the 2021 CWC Best Crime First Novel Award
- Finalist for the 2021 WILLA Literary Award for Original Softcover Fiction
- Shortlisted for the 2021 McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award
- Shortlisted for the 2023 Betty Averbach Foundation Prize for Poetry
- Shortlisted for the 2021 Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book
- Longlisted for the 2021 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award
- Longlisted for the 2021 Fred Cogswell Award for Excellence in Poetry
- Finalist for the 2022 Lansdowne Prize for Poetry
Reverberations: A Daughter’s Meditations on Alzheimer’s
- Shortlisted for the 2020 Louise de Kiriline Lawrence Award for Nonfiction
- Finalist for the Expozine Alternative Press Award for Literary English
- Finalist for the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction
- Winner of the 2020 Fred Kerner Book Award
- Longlisted for the Fred Cogswell Award For Excellence in Poetry
- Winner of the 2020 Lansdowne Prize for Poetry
- Finalist for the Governor General Literary Award for Poetry
- Shortlisted for the McNally Robinson Book of the Year
- Finalist for the 2020 High Plains Poetry Book Award
- Shortlisted for the McNally Robinson Book of the Year
- Shortlisted for the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction
Sea Over Bow: A North Atlantic Crossing
- Shortlisted for the Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher
- Finalist for the Fred Cogswell Award 2019
- Shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award
- Shortlisted for the League of Canadian Poets Pat Lowther Memorial Award
The Last Chance Ladies’ Book Club
- Winner of the High Plains Award for Best Book by a Woman Writer
- Shortlisted for the Regina Public Library Book of the Year Award
- Shortlisted for the City of Regina Book Award
- Shortlisted for the Muslims for Peace and Justice Fiction Award
Spirit of a Hundred Thousand Dead Animals
- Finalist for The Manuela Dias Award for Best Book Design
- Winner of the Rasmussen, Rasmussen and Charowsky Indigenous Peoples' Writing Award
- Winner of the O'Reilly Insurance and The Co-operators First Book Award
- Shortlisted for the Indigenous Voices Award for Most Significant Work of Poetry in English by an Emerging Indigenous Writer.
- Shortlisted for Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher
- Finalist for the 2018 WILLA Literary Award for Poetry
- Beatrice Mosionier Aboriginal Writer of the Year Award Runner-up
- John C. Maxwell Leadership Award
- TJ's Gift Foundation Champion Award
Finding Home in the Promised Land: A Personal History of Homelessness and Social Exile
- Winner of the 2016 James H. Gray Award for Short Non-Fiction
- New Brunswick's Alfred G. Bailey Prize for best poetry manuscript
- Shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award
- Winner of the J.M. Abraham Poetry Award
- Shortlisted for the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction
- Shortlisted for the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award
- Shortlisted for the McNally Robinson Book of the Year
- Shortlisted for the Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher
- Shortlisted for the High Plains Award for Best Book by a Woman Writer
- Shortlisted for the Margaret Laurence Award for fiction
- Shortlisted for the Michael Van Rooy Award for Genre Fiction
Tracks: Journeys in Time and Place
- Nominated for the Creative Nonfiction Collective Readers' Choice Award
Le soleil du lac qui se couche/The Setting Lake Sun (ebook)
- Winner — On The Same Page
- Winner — Prix Champlain
- Winner — Prix Littéraire Rue-Deschambault
- Shortlisted for the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award
- Very Honourable Mention — John Glassco Translation Award
- Shortlisted for the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award
- Shortlisted for the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award
- Shortlisted for the QWF A.M. Klein Poetry Award
- Shortlisted for the Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher
- Shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Award
- Shortlisted for the John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer
- Shortlisted for the Atlantic Poetry Award
- Shortlisted for the Acorn-Plantos Award
From Fire to Flood: A History of Theatre in Manitoba
- Winner of the Manitoba Historical Society Margaret McWilliams Local History Award
- Shortlisted for the Manitoba Historical Society Margaret McWilliams Popular History Award
- Shortlisted for the Anne Saddlemyer Award
- Shortlisted for the Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book by a Manitoba Author
In the First Early Days of My Death
- Shortlisted for the Margaret Laurence Fiction Award
- Shortlisted for the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award
- Shortlisted for the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award
- Shortlisted for the John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer
Black Teeth & Other North End Souvenirs
- Shortlisted for the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award
- Winner of the Governor General's Award for Translation
- Winner of the Grand Prix du Livre de Montréal
- Winner of the Grand Prix du Festival International de La Poesie de Trois Rivieres
Summer of My Amazing Luck: The Play
- Winner of the Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Outstanding New Play Award
- Winner — On The Same Page
- Winner — Prix Champlain
- Winner — Prix Littéraire Rue-Deschambault
- Shortlisted for the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award
- Very Honourable Mention — John Glassco Translation Award
Z: A Meditation on Oppression, Desire and Freedom
- Winner of the Saskatchewan Book of the Year Award
- Finalist for the Manitoba Book Design of the Year Award
The Last Journey of Captain Harte
- Shortlisted for the City of Regina Book Award
- Shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Award
- Shortlisted for the City of Victoria Butler Book Award
- Shortlisted for the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award
- Shortlisted for the Margaret Laurence Fiction Award
A Quiet Night and a Perfect End
- Named one of Quill & Quire's 10 Best Books of the Year
- Heard on CBC Radio's "Between the Covers"
Out of Grief, Singing: A Memoir of Motherhood and Loss
- Globe and Mail "My Book of The Year" Pick 2010
- McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award Finalist
- Alexander Isbister Award for Non-Fiction Finalist