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2006   First prize, dramatic script, Aphasia, Newfoundland and Labrador Arts and Letters Competition. Aphasia is a one-act play set mostly in Moscow just before the signing of the German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact. Young polyglot and MI6 agent Temerity West makes contact with NKVD agent and Beria man Khabra Berendei. The two remain loyal to their visions of statehood but fall in love; power and their mutual misuse of it beats them down.

2005   Finalist, Grimm Canada-UK Short Story Competition, "I may tell all my bones," included in The shadow side of grace.

2004   David Adams Richards Award for "Obliged to drink bad water," included in The shadow side of grace.

2004   Finalist, Writers' Union of Canada Short Prose Competition for Developing Writers, "Accidentals," included in The shadow side of grace.

2001   Playwrights' Atlantic Resource Centre Moveable Feast, Peter's Accent. (Funding collapsed and the Moveable Feast workshopping did not go ahead.) Peter's Accent is a three-act play set mostly in London in 1593. Christopher Marlowe stuggles to retain integrity and finally the peace and life of a dear friend against espionage rivalries and political and linguistic instability.

2000   First prize, dramatic script, Peter's Accent, Newfoundland and Labrador Arts and Letters Competition.

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