awards, fellowships, mentorships
2024 ACT Literary Awards / Marion (Poetry Books) - Shortlisted, sifting fire writing coast
2022 Lambing Flat FAW Cherry Festival Writing competition (poetry) - Highly Commended
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 Poetry Award - Longlisted
2021 Australian Catholic University Prize for Poetry - Shortlisted
2021 Queensland Poetry Festival Emerging Older Poets Award - Shortlisted
2021 StoryFest (short story) - Shortlisted
2020 June Shenfield National Poetry Award - Winner
2020 Varuna the National Writing House 'Writing Fire Writing Drought' - Awarded Fellowship
2020 Queensland Poetry Festival Emerging Older Poets Award - Runner-up/Highly Commended
2020 Ethel Webb Blundell Award (poetry) 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 (poetry) (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 ACT 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, South Coast Writers Centre - Awarded
1999 Marjorie Graber-McInnes Short Story Award, ACT Writers' Centre - Runner-up
