Jeff's poem “Sound Painter” won the Editor’s Choice Award in the 2-Day Poem Contest, a national poetry contest.
Soapstone Signs won first prize in the The Writers’ Union of Canada’s Children’s Writing Competition.
Not only was Soapstone Signs recommended by the Canadian Children’s Book Centre as a Best Book for 2015, it was the only Early Chapter Book to receive a Red Star denoting a title of exceptional caliber.