• Third Place, London Magazine Short Story Contest, for
  Claim to Fame, 1994
• The Journey Prize for Long Man the River, 1994
• The Canadian Association of Authors Jubilee Prize for
  The Uncharted Heart, 2001

• A Cry of Bees, Viking Press (New York), 1970

• Constant Fire, Oberon Press, 1995
• The Uncharted Heart, Knopf Canada, 2001

~short stories

The Atlantic Monthly

• Aquero, December 2002

• The Raven Mocker, 13, 3, 1993
• Magical Thinking , 11, 1, 1991
• The Teddy, 15, 4, 1995
• The Fourth Day of July, 16, 4, 1996
• Traplines, 17, 2, 1997
• Bad Men Who Love Jesus, 86, 2003

• Discriminatio Spirituum, 40, 41, 1991

• Moving Violation, 91, 1992
• Rivals, 98, 1994
• The Babysitter, 128, 2002

• Past Due, 72, 1, 1992
• Strays, Summer 1999
• Rumours of His Death, Summer 2000
• Imposters in Love, Summer 2001

• Longman the River, 17,3, 1993
• Dancing Sally, 18, 2, 1994
• The Wild Boy, 20, 4, 1997
• Lightning, 23, 1, 1999
• Poison Pen, 25, 4, 2002
• The Puny Column, 27, 1, 2003

• The Rose Girl, 112, 1995

• The Last Dalliance of Catspaw County, Spring 1996, No. 187
• The Sweet Bye 'N Bye, Summer 1997, No. 192

• The Lover of Thornton Avenue, 2:26, Winter 1996-1997

• The Uncharted Heart, 49,Spring/Summer, 1998
• The Prospector's Boot, 50, Spring/Summer issue, 1999

• The Ice Woman, Winter 1997-1998, Vol. 18, No. 4.,
  (Finalist for Western Magazine Foundation Awards 1999)

• Claim to Fame, Fall 1998, Vol. 21, No. 3

• Metallica, Spring 1999.
• The Dream House, Spring 2000
• The Oak Secretary, Fall 2003
• Alabaster, Summer 2004

• Paper Son, Winter 2000.

• The Heifer, Vol.32, No. 2, Summer 2001
• The Gallery Vol.33, No. 3, Fall 2002

• Wedding Belles, Vol. 13, 2002

• The Bargain Hunter, Autumn 2003, Issues 2&3

• The Uncharted Heart, Best American Short Stories of 1999, Houghton-Mifflin
• Discriminatio Spirituum, Voices and Echoes Anthology, Studies in Women and Religion, Vol. 4, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1997
• Longman the River, Journey Prize Anthology, McClelland and Stewart ,1994
• Longman the River, Best Canadian Short Stories of 1993, Oberon, 1994
• Longman the River, Young Bloods, Exile Editions, 2001
• The Heifer, Best American Short Stories of 2001, Houghton-Mifflin, 2002
• The Bockles, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror,
  St Martin's Press, 2002
• Aquero, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, St Martin's Press, 2003
• Aquero, The Canadian Gothic: Tales of Unease from Pre-Confederation to the Present, Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2002
• Lightning, Bluffs: Northeastern Ontario Stories from the Edge, Your Scrivener Press, May 2006

• Offshore Fishing, Canadian Author and Bookman, 66,2, 1991

• Idea of Story, Interview with Veronica Ross, paragraph, 12,3, 1990, reprinted in The Power to Bend Spoons, forthcoming from Mercury Press.
• Essential Furniture of the World, Interview with Douglas Glover, paragraph, 13,1, 1990; reprinted in The Power to Bend Spoons, forthcoming from Mercury Press
• The Wise Old Woman of the Woods, The New Quarterly, 13,3, 1993

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