HONOURS
I’m a writer, teacher, filmmaker and pro-wrestler.
These are some of my awards.
Photo: Jack Hinks
Literary Awards (Books)
Shortlisted for the Nelson Ball Prize, The End Is in the Middle, 2023.
Shortlisted for the ReLit Award for Poetry, The End Is in the Middle, 2023.
Longlisted for the LCP Raymond Souster Award, The End Is in the Middle, 2022.
Shortlisted for the ReLit Award for Short Fiction, Wave Forms and Doom Scrolls, 2022.
Finalist for the Foreword Indies: Short Stories, Wave Forms and Doom Scrolls, 2021.
Shortlisted for the ReLit Award for Poetry, Fauxccasional Poems, 2016.
ReLit Award for Poetry (Awarded to the Best Book of Poetry Published by an Independent Publisher), Predicting the Next Big Advertising Breakthrough Using a Potentially Dangerous Method, 2007.
Anne Szumigalski Poetry Award (Saskatchewan Book Award for Best Book of Poetry), Predicting the Next Big Advertising Breakthrough Using a Potentially Dangerous Method, 2006.
Shortlisted for the Brenda MacDonald Riches First Book Award (Saskatchewan Book Awards), Predicting the Next Big Advertising Breakthrough Using a Potentially Dangerous Method, 2006.
John V. Hicks Award (Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild Award for Best Unpublished Manuscript), Predicting the Next Big Advertising Breakthrough Using a Potentially Dangerous Method, 2004.
Literary Awards (Individual Works)
Longlisted for The Fiddlehead’s Ralph Gustafson Prize for the Best Poem, “Lift,” 2019.
Runner-up for The Puritan’s Thomas Morton Prize: Poetry, “Folderol,” 2018.
Runner-up for The New Quarterly’s Peter Hinchcliffe Fiction Award, “Humanity’s Wing,” 2018.
Honourable Mention for The New Quarterly’s Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest, “Don,” 2018.
Honourable Mention for The New Quarterly’s Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest, “Spring,” 2018.
Honourable Mention for International Festival of Authors: Battle of the Bards. Toronto, ON. 30 Mar. 2016.
Won The Puritan’s Thomas Morton Prize: Fiction, “1 Dog, 1 Knife,” 2014.
Won the CCWWP Writing Contest: Poetry, “The Taliban Are the Most Famous Poets in America,” 2014.
Won the Matrix Lit Pop Award, “Desire (5 Poems),” 2010.
Shortlisted for the Matrix Lit Pop Award, “Assemble, Like So,” 2009.
Won the EYE Weekly Short Story Contest, “What Is Missing,” 2008.
Shortlisted for the PRISM international National Short Fiction Contest, “The Great Thinker,” 2006.
National Finalist in CBC’s National Poetry Face-Off, “T-Shirts and Toys,” 2005.
Honourable Mention in National Magazine Awards, “An Experiment in Form,” 2003.
Teaching Awards
Received UTSC Teaching Award in the Associate / Full Professor category, 2025.
Named one of four UTSC Professors of the Year by The Underground, 2011-12.
Film & Screenwriting Awards
Nominated for Best Experimental Short Film. Wave Form. Yorkton Film Festival, 2021.
Semi-Finalist, Filmmatic Horror Screenplay Awards, “Story Horror,” 2021.
Nominated for Best Experimental Short Film. Wave Form. Cinema on the Bayou Film Festival, 2021.
Won Intertoto Award (Best in Block). Humanity’s Wing. Videodrunk Film Festival, 2020
Won Best Experimental Short Film. Wave Form. Arizona Underground Film Festival, 2020.
Nominated for Best Experimental Short Film. Wave Form. Great Lakes International Film Festival, 2020.
Shoot Your Short Screenplay Competition Top 100, “Poemb,” 2020.
Semifinalist for Screencraft’s Short Screenplay Competition, “Poemb,” 2019.
Peter Gerresten Film Award (Given by Ryerson University’s Chang School of Continuing Education) for Best Achievement in Motion Picture Production II: Fiction Film, In the Style of the Masters for Source Direct (Produced, Directed, and Wrote in Style of David Lynch), 2015-16.
Peter Gerresten Film Award (Given by Ryerson University’s Chang School of Continuing Education) for Best Achievement in Motion Picture Production II: Fiction Film, Team Project for The Makeover (Sound and Editing), 2015-16.
Pro Wrestling Awards
Kings of the Six Tag Team Champion with Durag. Superkick’d Pro Wrestling Rock Show, April 2026-Present.