Hopkinson was the recipient of the 1999 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer[15] and the Ontario Arts Council Foundation Award for Emerging Writers.[16]
Brown Girl in the Ring was nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award in 1998, and received the Locus Award for Best First Novel.[17] In 2008, it was a finalist in Canada Reads, produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.[18]
Midnight Robber was shortlisted for the James R. Tiptree Jr. Memorial Award in 2000[19] and nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2001.[20]
Skin Folk received the World Fantasy Award and the Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic in 2003.[21]
The Salt Roads received the Gaylactic Spectrum Award for positive exploration of queer issues in speculative fiction for 2004, presented at the 2005 Gaylaxicon. It was also nominated for the 2004 Nebula Award.[22]
In 2008, The New Moon's Arms received the Prix Aurora Award (Canada's reader-voted award for science fiction and fantasy)[23] and the Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic,[24] making her the first author to receive the Sunburst Award twice. This book was also nominated for the 2007 Nebula Award for Best Novel.[25]
In 2016, Hopkinson received an Honorary Doctor of Letters from Anglia Ruskin University.[26][27] In 2020, she was named the 37th Damon Knight Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.[3] In 2022, her Broad Dutty Water: A Sunken Story was awarded the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for the best science fiction short story published the previous year, from the University of Kansas Center for the Study of Science Fiction.[28]
