Awards

2022 awardee QRAA Ekphrastic Challenge, My Athenaeum.
2021 inaugural AAALS Poetry Prize (poem to be published in Antipodes 35.1)
2020 Finalist, joanneburns microlit award
2019 Finalist, joanneburns microlit award
2019 Varuna Poetry Residency
2019, Long List, Vice-Chancellors Poetry Prize
2015 inaugural Philip Bacon Ekphrasis Award
2014, Long List, Newcastle Poetry Prize
2014, Short List, FourW poetry prize
2013, Long List, Montreal Poetry Prize
2013 Hawthornden Fellow, Scotland.
An Absence of Saints was shortlisted for the 2010/2011 Mary Gilmore Award.
2011 Wesley Michel Wright Prize for an extract of poems in a published collection from An Absence of Saints.
2010 Anne Elder Poetry Award for a first book of poetry first published in Australia was given to An Absence of Saints.
2009 Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize for an unpublished manuscript of poetry for An Absence of Saints.