 His short story, "Last Inning", won the 1999 Arthur Ellis Award for best short mystery fiction.Another story, "Reasons Unknown", won the Okanagan Award for Best Literary Short Fiction in early 1999.His first Barry Gilbert mystery, "Cold Comfort", was nominated for the Arthur Ellis Award for best mystery novel, and his science fiction novel, "The Meek", was a finalist for the prestigious U.S. John Campbell Memorial Award for Best SF Novel of 2001.