AWARDS

Jon Whyte Essay Contest, Alberta Literary Awards, 2012

Short listed, Prism magazine non-fiction award, 2011

Winner Jon Whyte Essay Contest, Alberta Book Awards, 2000

American Heart Award for Fiction

Western Magazine Awards for Fiction

Short listed, James H Gray award for non-fiction, Alberta Literary Awards, 2010

Short listed, Howard O'Hagan award for a collection short fiction, Alberta Book Awards, 2000

Short listed Writers Union of Canada postcard story contest

GRANTS

Alberta Foundation for the Arts, 2003, 2001

Banff Centre, Wired Writing Studio, 2001-2002

Books

Magazines and Anthologies

Acclaim (England), vol. 2, #4, 1995

Albertaviews, Sept 2000

Alberta Rebound, Ed. A. van Herk NeWest Press, 1990

Boundless Alberta, Ed. A. van Herk NeWest Press, 1993

The Capilano Review, series 2:13, 1994

Dandelion, 1989.

The Dinosaur Review, Spring, 1988

Fresh Tracks: Writing the Western Landscape, Ed. P. Banting, Polestar Press, 1998

The Issues Collection - Families in Transition, T. Fenwick, McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1994

The Issues Collection - Travel and Tourism, J. Wowk, C. Mayne, McGraw-Hill Ryerson 1995

Kaleidoscope: Exploring the Experience of Disablity through Literature and the Fine Arts

(U.S.A.), Nos 33, 1996 and 48, 2004

The Malahat Review, #167, summer 2009

The New Quarterly, #`122, Spring 2012

Other Voices, vol. 1, #3, 1990, Vol. 7, #4, 1994 and vol. 11, #1 1998

Prairie Fire, vol. 12, #2, 1991

Prism, vol 49:3, 2011

Room magazine, vol:4, 2009

Room of One's Own, 18:4, 1995

Shy: The Anthology, Edited by N.K. Lewis and R. Altrows, University of Alberta Press, 2012

Walk Myself Home. An Anthology to End Violence against Women. Edited by A. Routley Caitlin Press, 2010.

Zygote, vol. 2, #4, 1995

Waiting, Edited by R. Altrows and J. Sedivy, University of Alberta Press, 2018,

You Look Good for Your Age, Edited by R. Altrows, University of Alberta Press, 2021