Awards
- Leo Award, Best Screenplay (with Vic Sarin & Catherine Spears) "A Shine of Rainbows" 2010
- AATE Distinguished Play Award "Kindness" 2009
- Lifetime Membership, Playwrights Guild of Canada, 2007, for his “outstanding contribution to Canadian Playwriting 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
- 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
- Leo Award (British Columbia Film Award), 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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