Awards
Grants
- Artist with Disability Grant (Literature): $10,000 Australia Council of the Arts Period: 1 July 2014
30 October 2015 Project: Fragments of the Lurgi: A Mosaic (cross-genre)
Fellowships
2014
- Dorothy Hewett Flagship Fellowship (Poetry) Varuna Writers’ Centre, Katoomba (NSW) Project: Fragments of the Lurghi
2001
- Emerging Writer-in-Residence Fellowship Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers Centre Greenmount (WA) Project: Notes from the Devil's Sidewalk
mentorships
2018
- Olvar Wood Mentorship (October-December) Mentor: Inga Simpson Project: Fragments through the Epidemic
2007
- Emerging Writer (February - August) Mentor: Dr David Reiter (Interactive Press) Project: The Scarlet Moment (Poetry)
2002 & 2003
- Northern Rivers Writers Centre Residential Mentorship Mentor: Marele Day
Project: Notes from the Devil's Sidewalk
Prizes and Awards
2019
- Conspiracy of Skin (Poetry( Highly Commended, Wesley Michel Wright Prize
2017
- 'The Book of Night' Highly Commended, Adrien Abbott Poetry Prize
2014
- ‘Call of the Crow’ Longlisted, InkTears Short Story Competition, UK
- 'Translations through Grief’ Longlisted, Fish International Poetry Competition, Ireland
2013
- ‘Call of the Crow’ Highly Commended, Trudy Graham-Julie Lewis Literary Award for Prose,
Peter Cowan Writers’ Centre (WA)
2012
- ‘Magpies’ Honourable Mention Single Poem Category, 16th Annual Prose and Poetry Prize The New Writer (UK)
2010
- ‘Python Bends’ Commended, All Poetry Competition (Kitchen Table Poets) (NSW)
- Winter Quiet (Chapbook) Commended, Poetry Idol/Whitmore Press Manuscript Prize (Vic)
2009
- ‘Meeting’ (Poetry) Highly Commended, Feast Literary Competition (SA)
2008
- ‘Doors’ (Poetry) 3rd Prize Feast Literary Competition (SA)
- ‘The Good Chair’ (Poetry) Highly Commended, Feast Literary Competition
- 'Doors’ (Poetry) Highly Commended, Shoalhaven Literary Award, FAW Shoalhaven Regional
2007
- These Scarlet Moments (Poetry manuscript) Long-listed, Interactive Press Picks Awards (Qld)
2005
- ‘Every Friday Night’ (Short Story) Honourable Mention, Denis Butler Literary Awards, FAW
Hunter and Lake Macquarie Regional
2001
- ‘Scent of Melancholy’ Commended, Poetry to 24 Lines, FAW Far North Coast Regional Literary Competition.
2000
- ‘Choristers, St. Carthage’s Cathedral, Lismore’ Commended, New England Review Poetry Competition
- 'This Scarlet Moment’ Highly Commended, Poetry to 80 Lines, FAW Far North Coast Literary Competition
- 'Dear John’ Commended, Poetry to 80 Lines, FAW Far North Coast Regional Literary Competition
1998
- ‘The Time of the Nightwalkers.’ Hodder Headline Regional Writers Prize, Queensland Pride/Silver Wheat Society Short Story Competition
1992
- ‘The Black Swan of Trespass’ (Short Story) Highly Commended, Terry Bell Memorial Competition for Literature (NSW)