Prizes & Awards
2024
2022
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.
2021
Winner
Many thanks to the Blue Knot Foundation for sponsoring this award. All supporters of poets and poetry right now, of feeling deeply and of writing finely, are of inestimable value to the futures of us all, and the world we are responsible for creating together. Very grateful for this unexpected prize, and those who dedicate time and effort each year to put together an inclusive anthology that celebrates what it is to be human, and to heal, as much as to witness the contours and particularities of suffering. Thankyou Blue Knot Foundation for the work you do.
Longlisted
2021 Kuracca Prize for Australian Literature longlist
Second Prize
MPU Annual International Poetry Competition Awards ($500)
‘The Semiotics of Arrival’
Watch live recording here
2020
Shortlisted
MPU Annual International Poetry Competition
2019
Winner
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
2018
2017
2016
Winner
University of Canberra Health Poetry Prize, for the poem ‘The Glimpse’.
2015
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
2014
Highly Commended Second Place
AAWP Most Outstanding Postgraduate Conference Paper
Australian Postgraduate Award
2013
Highly Commended Second Place
AAWP Most Outstanding Postgraduate Conference Paper
Australian Postgraduate Award
2012
Australian Postgraduate Award
Felix Meyer Scholarship
M.A. Bartlett Research Scholarship
Melbourne Abroad Travelling Scholarship
Graduate Research in Arts Travel Scheme Award
2011
Second Prize (joint winner)
MPU International Poetry Competition, for ‘my singing empty hands’.
Australian Postgraduate Award
2010
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’.
2009
Highly Commended
Eastern Regional Libraries National Poetry Writing Competition, for ‘Gone Fishing’.
2006
Long Listed
Fish International Poetry Competition (Ireland)
2003
2002
Australian Poetry Foundation Wollongong Writing Residency Bursary
First Prize
UNE Literary Awards (Open Poetry Section), for ‘Unborn Child’.
1997
Chancellor’s Letter of Commendation for Outstanding Academic Achievement
1995
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