Susan’s work is supported by grants from Calgary Arts Development and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts.
Nominee, Best Short Story, Prix Aurora Awards, 2022, “The Only Road,” Shapers of Worlds, V.II, Shadowpaw Press, 2021.
Winner, Best YA Novel, Prix Aurora Awards (2021). Flights of Marigold, Laksa Media Groups, 2020.
Winner, Best YA Novel, Prix Aurora Awards (2020). Bursts of Fire, Laksa Media Groups, 2019.
Finalist, Best Short Fiction, Prix Aurora Awards (2019). “For A Rich Man To Enter,” InterGalactic Medicine Show, Issue 62.
Finalist, Best Related Work, Prix Aurora Awards (2019). Shades Within Us: Tales of Migrations and Fractured Borders, edited by Susan Forest and Lucas K. Law, Laksa Media.
Winner, Best Related Work, Prix Aurora Awards (2018). The Sum of Us: Tales of the Bonded and Bound, edited by Susan Forest and Lucas K. Law, Laksa Media.
Winner, Book Publishers of Alberta Award (2017). Strangers Among Us: Tales of the Underdogs and Outcasts, edited by Susan Forest and Lucas K. Law, Laksa Media.
Winner, Best Related Work, Prix Aurora Awards (2017). Strangers Among Us: Tales of the Underdogs and Outcasts, edited by Susan Forest and Lucas K. Law, Laksa Media.
Finalist, Prix Aurora Awards (2014). “The Gift,” The Urban Green Man: An Archetype of Renewal, edited by Adria Laycraft and Janice Blaine, EDGE Publishing.
Finalist, Prix Aurora Awards (2012). “Turning It Off”, Analog Magazine.
Winner, The Galaxy Project (2011). “Lucy.” Award juried by Robert Silverberg, David Drake, and Barry Malzberg. Published by Rosetta Books.
Notable Online Story Finalist, StorySouth Million Writers Award (2010). “Orange,” AE SF Review.
Finalist, Prix Aurora Awards (2009). “Back,” Analog Magazine.
Finalist, Robin Herrington Short Story Contest (2005). “Immunity,” In Places Between.
Winner, Children’s Choice Book Award (1990). The Dragon Prince, Gage Educational Publishing.