2018 – Joint winner of the Kobzar Literary Award for Unbound: Ukrainian Canadians Writing Home
2023 – shortlisted for Alberta Book Publishers Association for Ghosts in a Photograph: A Chronicle
1988 – Alberta Achievement Award
2002 – Golden Jubilee Medal (50th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth’s Coronation)
2002 – Canadian Conference of the Arts Honorary Life Member
2005 – Alberta Centennial Medal
2006 – City of Edmonton’s Salute to Excellence Award
2008 – Writers' Guild of Alberta Golden Pen Lifetime Achievement Award
2009 – City of Edmonton’s Arts & Culture Hall of Fame
2010 – Writers' Trust of Canada Matt Cohen Award: In Celebration of a Writing Life
2009 – Canadian Authors’ Association Alberta Branch “Exporting Alberta” Award
2010 – Sophia Institute Society of Fellows admission
2012 – Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Medal
2018 – Writers' Union of Canada Life Membership