Literature Awards, Grants & Honors

Awards

(academic)
Valedictorian, Fredericton High School 1974
Scoudouc Continuing Education Award, 1983
Fredericton Foundation Scholarship, 1983-84
President's Full Tuition Scholarship 1984-85
Frances M. McLaughlin Scholarship 1985-86
Prizes for first, second and third year English
Dr. Desmond Pacey Memorial Scholarship for excellence in literature for senior student (St. Thomas)
Dean's List, St. Thomas 1984-87
O'Brien Foundation Fellowship in the amount of   7,000 towards graduate work.
Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada Special Master of Arts Scholarship (SHRCC), 1987SHRCC), 1987
Queen's Fellowship, (one of three awarded in Canada),1987-88

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Awards/Grants

(literary)
N.B. Writer's Federation President's Award for first prize for an unpublished collection of adult poetry 1988 ( later to become basis for In this House Are Many Women )
Canada Council Arts Grant "B" (1988)
Atlantic Bookseller's Choice Award for Sleeping Dragons All Around 1990
Mr. Christie's Children's Book Award for There Were Monkeys in My Kitchen 1993
Canadian Authors Association Mariana Dempster Award for contribution to Children's Literature 1995
Anne Connor Brimer Award for Mabel Murple 1996
Nova Scotia Arts Council Grant 1997
Silver Birch Award Ontario's children's choice for If You Could Wear My Sneakers   2000
Hackamatack Award ( Atlantic children's choice award for If You could Wear My Sneakers ) 2000
Queen's Medal.
Vicky Metcalf Award for body of work in children's literature 2000
Winner of the Saskatchewan Snow Willow Award for The Gravesavers
Winner, CBC Young Canada Reads for The Gravesavers.

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Honors

Honorary Doctor of Letters St. Mary's
Honorary Doctor of Letters Acadia

* Other books shortlisted for numerous other awards. In recent years, If I Had a Million Onions nominated for Silver Birch and Hackmatack, The Gravesavers first runner up for Ontario Red Maple, shorlist and honor for CLA book of the year award , Manitoba Books for Children, B.C. Rocky Mountain Award.
Many works on Canadian Children's Book Centre Our Choice List.  
In 1998, three Fitch books listed on top ten list of Canadian Children's Books, Ottawa Citizen.