awards, fellowships, mentorships
2022 Lambing Flat FAW Cherry Festival Writing competition - Highly Commended (poetry)
2022 Flying Islands Press Poetry Manuscript competition - Longlisted.
2022 South Coast Writers Centre writers residential retreat Bundanon, NSW - Awarded Fellowship.
2022 South Coast Writers Centre (SCWC) Poetry Award - Longlisted.
2021 Australian Catholic University Prize for Poetry - Shortlisted.
2021 Queensland Poetry Festival Emerging Older Poets Mentorship Award - Shortlisted.
2020 June Shenfield National Poetry Award - Winner.
2020 Varuna 'Writing Fire Writing Drought' - Awarded Fellowship.
2020 Queensland Poetry Festival Emerging Older Poets Mentorship Award - Runner-up/Highly Commended.
2020 Ethel Webb Blundell Award, Society Women Writers of WA - Commended.
2019 Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers’ Centre - Awarded Fellowship.
2019 The Booranga Prize (poetry) - Shortlisted.
2019 StoryFest (short story) - Longlisted.
2018 Copyright Agency Ltd Best Poem in Meniscus Vol. 6(2) -
2018 Glen Phillips Poetry Prize -
2018 Queensland Poetry Festival Emerging Older Poets Mentorship Award
- Runner-up.
- Runner-up.
2018 Ethel Webb Blundell Literary Award, (SWWofWA) - 2nd place
2018 Reading in Colour writing competition, South Coast Writers'
Centre - Winner.
Centre - Winner.
2017 The Booranga Prize (poetry) - Shortlisted.
2014 Patron’s Prize for Poets, Peter Cowan Writers’ Centre (PCWC) - Highly Commended.
2013 Glen Phillips Poetry Prize - Highly Commended.
2006 A.C.T Writing & Publishing Awards - Runner-up (Frieda and the Cops).
2001 Marian Eldridge Award for Emerging Women Writers - Winner.
2000 Writing in the Southern Tablelands Mentorship, SCWC - Awarded.
1999 Marjorie Graber-McInnes Short Story Award, ACT Writers' Centre - Runner-up.
