The Clothesline Swing won the Independent Publisher Book Awards' Golden Medal in the LGBT category,[7] as well as the Canadian Authors Association's Fred Kerner Award for Best Overall Fiction Book in 2017,[8] was picked among The Globe and Mail's 100 Best Books 2017,[9] and was number 7 of the Toronto Star Top 10 Books of 2017.[10] It was long listed on the CBC's Canada Reads 2018 contest,[11] shortlisted to the Forest of Reading's Evergreen Award 2018,[12] shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award Gay Fiction category in 2018, and longlisted for Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic.[13]