Shortlisted Newcastle Poetry Prize

Highly Commended

2022 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize: Foxstruck and Other Collisions.

Shortlisted

2022 ACU Prize for Poetry Competition

‘Poem with bent interior’ shortlisted in the 2022 ACU Prize for Poetry Competition.

Winner

Blue Knot Foundation Award

Thankyou Blue Knot Foundation for the work you do.

Longlisted

2021 Kuracca Prize for Australian Literature longlist

Overland Literary Journal

Second Prize

MPU Annual International Poetry Competition Awards ($500)

‘The Semiotics of Arrival’

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Shortlisted

MPU Annual International Poetry Competition

Winner

Peter Steele Poetry Award

Inaugural Poetry Prize in recognition of excellence achieved from a doctoral candidate at Melbourne University who has successfully submitted a thesis in the last five years containing poetry or verse novel elements.

Live recording of acceptance speech via facebook

Winner

Venie Holmgren Environmental Poetry Prize

Shortlisted

UK Aesthetica Creative Writing Awards

Second Prize

Newcastle Poetry Prize

Shortlisted

Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize

Winner

University of Canberra Health Poetry Prize, for the poem ‘The Glimpse’.

Highly Commended

FAW Anne Elder Award, for a first book of poetry.

Commended

Rhonda Jankovic Literary Awards, for the poem ‘My baby’s been crying’.

Third Prize

Newcastle Poetry Prize, for ‘Two Blue-Black Crows’.

Long Listed 

University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor’s Poetry Prize

Highly Commended Second Place

AAWP Most Outstanding Postgraduate Conference Paper

Australian Postgraduate Award

Highly Commended Second Place

AAWP Most Outstanding Postgraduate Conference Paper

Australian Postgraduate Award

Australian Postgraduate Award

Felix Meyer Scholarship

M.A. Bartlett Research Scholarship

Melbourne Abroad Travelling Scholarship

Graduate Research in Arts Travel Scheme Award

Second Prize (joint winner)

MPU International Poetry Competition, for ‘my singing empty hands’.

Australian Postgraduate Award

First Prize (poetry)

Page Seventeen Short Story and Poetry Competition, ‘Dreaming in Auslan: A Study in Yellow and Grey’.

First Prize (poetry)

Writing the Forbidden MPU Open Reading Poetry Award Wheeler Centre, ‘Flow, Repetition, Decay’.

Highly Commended (poetry)

Martha Richardson Memorial Prize, for ‘The Bridge’.

Highly Commended

John Masefield Poetry Prize, for the ‘Bellbird Gully’.

Highly Commended

Eastern Regional Libraries National Poetry Writing Competition, for ‘Gone Fishing’.

Long Listed

Fish International Poetry Competition (Ireland)

Australian Poetry Foundation Wollongong Writing Residency Bursary

First Prize

UNE Literary Awards (Open Poetry Section), for ‘Unborn Child’.

Chancellor’s Letter of Commendation for Outstanding Academic Achievement

First Prize (Fiction)

Uni Books South Australian Short Story Competition (Student Section), for ‘Drowning, Not Waving’.

Chancellor’s Letter of Commendation for Outstanding Academic Achievement