2022
- Fishbowl Residency, Queensland Writers Centre
2021
- Queensland Writers Fellowship, QLAs, State Library of Queensland, to write “Preserving: Stories”
- Griffith Review Emerging Voices Competition, longlisted for “Send in the Clowns”
- Newcastle Short Story Award, finalist for “Umbilical”
- Australian Shadows Awards, short fiction category, shortlisted for “Let Shadows Slip Through”
- Australian Shadows Awards, short fiction category, shortlisted for “Needles”
2020
- 2020 ASA Award Mentorship Program, winner, to develop “Songs of All Poets”
- UQP Writing Mentorship, shortlisted for “Kismet”
2019
- Arts Queensland Individuals Fund grant through the Queensland Government, for a Short Story Mentorship
2017
- Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers Centre Fellowship
- Newcastle Short Story Award, finalist for “Onze Heures Moins Dix”
2016
- Bath Novel Award, longlisted for “Songs of all Poets”
- Bath Novel Award, longlisted for “An Emu War” [later published as The Secrets at Ocean’s Edge]
2015
- QWC/ Hachette Australia Manuscript Development Program, for “Songs of all Poets”
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