Awards

2019
Winner- Best Documentary, Nickel Independent Film Festival for It Was All So Wonderful: The Everyday Magic of Mary Pratt 

Winner- Audience Choice Award, Nickel Independent Film Festival for It Was All So Wonderful: The Everyday Magic of Mary Pratt 

Winner- Best Newfoundland & Labrador Film, Nickel Independent Film Festival for It Was All So Wonderful: The Everyday Magic of Mary Pratt 

Nominee- Best Feature Length Documentary,  Canadian Screen Awards for Immaculate Memories: The Uncluttered Worlds of Christopher Pratt 

Nominee- Best Canadian Documentary, RIFFA- Regina International Film Festival for It Was All So Wonderful: The Everyday Magic of Mary Pratt 


2018
Winner- Best Original Score, Nickel Independent Film Festival for Immaculate Memories: The Uncluttered Worlds of Christopher Pratt 

Nominee- Best Canadian Documentary, RIFFA- Regina International Film Festival for Immaculate Memories: The Uncluttered Worlds of Christopher Pratt 

Nominee- Best Experimental Short Film, Silver Wave Film Festival for Aliment Roots 


2017
Winner- Best Canadian Feature Film, RIFFA- Regina International Film Festival for I Heard the Birch Tree Whisper in the Night 

Winner- Audience Choice Award, Nickel Independent Film Festival for I Heard the Birch Tree Whisper in the Night 

Winner- Best Music Video, Cardiff International Film Festival for Baby 


2015
Nominee- Canadian Screen Awards, Best Writing in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series for The Slattery Street Crockers  

Nominee- Golden Firebird Award, Best Short Film, Hong Kong International Film Festival for It Was Sunny the Day I Killed Her  


2011
Winner- Kodak Best Atlantic Short Film, Atlantic Film Festival for I'm 14 and I Hate the World  

Nominee- Maverick Movie Award, Best Screenplay for I'm 14 and I Hate the World 



2009
Nominated- International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for Blackstrap Hawco 



2008
Nominated- Commonwealth Writers Prize for Blackstrap Hawco 
Nominated- Giller Prize for Blackstrap Hawco 



2007
Winner- Rogers Writers Trust Fiction Prize for Inside
Winner- The Winterset Award for Inside
NominatedInternational IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for Inside



2006
Nominated- Giller Prize for Inside 


2005
Winner- Libro del Mare (Italy) for The Town That Forgot How To Breathe



2004
Winner- Raddall Atlantic Fiction Prize for The Town That Forgot How To Breathe


1993
Nominated- Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award for Brud 


1991
Nominated- Commonwealth Writers Prize for Directions for an Opened Body



Misc. Nominatations

1991 Air Canada Award- Most Promising Canadian Writer Under 30

1994 Western Magazine Award (short story): "Into the Places
          of Those Lost"

1994 CBC Literary Award (short story) "Merciful Hope"

1999 CBC Literary Award (short story) "No Better a House"