Grants have afforded me the time, without the distraction of bills and contracts, to concentrate on my work. I am grateful for the support I have received.
| 2010 | Grants to Individual Artists
City of Barrie. For The Mango Stone. To be completed: August 2010. |
| 2009 | Grants to Individual Artists
City of Barrie. For The Mango Stone. Completed: November 2009. |
| 2007 | Grants to Professional Writers
Canada Council for the Arts. For Masala-Fried Sunfish. Completed: November 2008. |
| 2007 | Works in Progress
Ontario Arts Council. For The Mango Stone. Completed: July 2008. |
| 2005 | Chalmers Arts Fellowship
Ontario Arts Council. For A Game of Dice and The Jungle Book, books 2 and 3 of The Bhārata. Completed: June 2007. |
| 2003 | Chalmers Arts Fellowship
Ontario Arts Council. For Die Cast, book 1 of The Bhārata. Completed: July 2004. |
| 2000 | Works in Progress Grant
Ontario Arts Council. For Project X 1497-1999. Completed: May 2001. |
| Alcuin Award for Book Design
Alcuin Society. For book design and layout, sensory deprivation / dream poetics. |
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| 1999 | Electronic and Spoken Word Grant
Canada Council for the Arts. For Project X 1497-1999. Completed: February 2000. |
| 1998 | Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, Short-list
League of Canadian Poets. Short-listed for best first poetry book, towards the quiet. |
| 1997 | Grants to Professional Writers
Canada Council for the Arts. For Project X 1497-1999. Completed: November 1998. |
| Writers’ Reserve Grant
Ontario Arts Council. For clay lamps & fighter kites. Completed: March 1998. |
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| Grants to Writers
Toronto Arts Council. For Project X 1497-1999. Completed: January 1998. |
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| 1996 | Literary Arts Development Grant, Special Projects
Canada Council for the Arts. For Project X 1497-1999. Completed: November 1997. |
| Writers’ Reserve Grant
Ontario Arts Council. For St Anthony’s Children. Completed: January 1997. |
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| Short Term Grant
Canada Council for the Arts. For untitled fiction. Completed: August 1996. |
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| 1993 | Writers’ Reserve Grant
Ontario Arts Council. For History: my father told me. Completed: February 1994. |
| Explorations Program Grant
Canada Council for the Arts. For History: my father told me. Completed October 1994. |