- Leo Award, Best Screenplay “Life, Above All: 2011
- Leo Award, Best Screenplay “A Shine of Rainbows” 2010
- AATE Distinguished Play Award, “Kindness” 2009
- Lifetime Membership, Playwrights Guild of Canada, for his “outstanding contribution to Canadian Playwrighting and Theatre”
- Red Maple Honor Book “The Dirt Eaters” 2004
- Sheila A. Egoff Award (BC Book Prize) “Skud” 2004
- Writers Guild of Canada: Top Ten Award “Torso” 2003
- VIFF Best Screenplay, “Long Life, Happiness and Prosperity” 2002
- Robert Wagner Award, best screenplay, “White Lies” Columbus Int’l TV Festival 1998
- Career Achievement Award, Vancouver Professional Theatre Alliance 1998
- Gemini Award, best writing in a Dramatic Program “Little Criminals” 1997
- Writers Guild of Canada: Top Ten Award “Little Criminals” 1997
- British Columbia Film Award “Leo” for best screenplay “Little Criminals” 1996
- Chalmers Award for “The Short Tree” 1995
- Scott Newman Award for “Maggie’s Secret” 1990
- AYA (International Arts for Young Audiences) Award, 1989
- Chalmers Award, 1987, for “Skin”
- British Theatre Award, 1986, for “Invisible Kids”
- Jesse Awards: director of four plays receiving “Best Production for Young Audiences” at the Vancouver Theatre Awards. 1984: One Thousand Cranes; 1985: Not So Dumb; 1986: Skin; 1987: Night Light.
- CBC Literary Award, 1985, for “The Short Tree and the Bird That Could Not Sing.”
- Hopwood Award, Fiction. University of Michigan, 1972
- Writers Digest Award, 1973
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