Awards + Fellowships

• 2025 Writers on the Reef Residency—highly commended

• Varuna International Exchange New Zealand 2025

• Page to Stage — National Theatre of Parramatta + NDIA 2024/25

• Jessica King Fellowship 2024

• Peter Blazey Fellowship 2024

• Parramatta Laureate in Literature 2024—shortlisted

• Alan Marshall Short Story Award 2024—shortlisted

• Create NSW funding 2023

• Testing Grounds collaborative lab 2023

• ASAL / Copyright Agency Writers’ Fellowship 2023

• WestWords Daffodil Cottage Writers Residency 2023

• MacDowell Residency 2022

• ABIA, Small Publishers’ Adult Book of the Award 2022—longlisted

• Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2022—highly commended

• The Writer’s Space Fellowship, Varuna 2021

• Australia Council Arts and Disability grant 2020

• Gill Owen Essay Prize 2020—runner-up

• Kill Your Darlings New Critic Award 2020—runner-up

• New England Varuna Residency 2020—shortlisted

• Cove Park International Residency 2020—shortlisted

• Monash Undergraduate Creative writing prize 2019—winner

• Writers Victoria Publishability Fellowship 2019/20

• Overland Fair Australia Essay Prize 2019—winner

• Griffith Review Varuna Residency 2019

• Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund 2019

• WestWords Emerging Writer Fellowship 2019

• Audiocraft Regional travel scholarship 2019

• RMIT WrICE (Indonesia) 2018

• Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowship 2018

• RMIT Bright Sparks Writing Fellowship (San Francisco) 2018

• Richell Prize 2018—shortlisted

• Next Chapter 2018—highly commended

• Feminartsy writer-in-residence fellowship 2017/18

• Dorothy Porter Award for poets 2017—shortlisted

• Australian Grief & Bereavement writing award 2017—winner

• Bendigo Writers Festival prose prize 2017—winner

• CutCommon Young Writer of the year 2017—runner-up

• The Lifted Brow Experimental non-fiction prize 2017—longlisted

• Writers Victoria Write-ability Fellowship 2017

• Avid Reader Flash Fiction prize 2016—shortlisted

• Margaret River Short Story Competition 2016–longlisted