Awards & Events
2026
Judged the 69th Blake Poetry Prize, alongside Kevin Brophy and Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon
2025
Winner - Questions Writing Prize 2025
Shortlisted - South Coast Writers Centre 2025 Poetry Award
Selected for KSP Writers' Centre's Caruso Writer-in-Residence program
2024
Winner - The 68th Blake Poetry Prize
Winner - South Coast Writers Centre and River of Art Festival Flash Fiction Competition
Shortlisted - 2024 Woollahra Digital Literary Award, Poetry section
Featured artist in 'Where Do You Get Your Ideas?' and 'Electric Words: A Poetic Salon' at QPoetry!
2023
Shortlisted - 2023 Booranga Prize for Prose
Longlisted - Mascara Varuna Writers' and Editors' Residency
Highly Commended - Voices of Women's Embellishment Storytellers program
Selected for Express Media's Toolkits: Digital Storytelling program
Featured artist in 'A Voice Appears in the Dark' at the Boundless Festival
Featured artist in 'A Voice Appears in the Dark' and at the launch of the National Young Writers' Festival
2021
Featured artist in 'The Poets' at the Sydney Festival 2021: Requiem
2020
Writing a Novel Scholarship (Sydney) - Faber Writing Academy, Allen & Unwin
Shortlisted - 2020 Woollahra Digital Literary Award, Poetry section
2019
Selected for Carnival of the Bold's Citizen Writes Project
2nd place - Youth In Motion Arts and Writing Competition, 17-21 years section
3rd place - Tommaso Favino Literary Competition, The Dante Alighieri Society Sydney
2018
Youth Award - Literary Nillumbik Ekphrasis Poetry Award
Highly Commended - Word section, University of Sydney Union Creative Awards
Commended - Shepton Mallet Snowdrop Festival, 12-18 years poetry section
2017
Winner - Stonnington Libraries' What's Your Story? Writing Competition, Open age poetry section
Winner - Laura Literary Awards, Youth section
1st & 2nd place, 15-18 years poetry - Imagination Creation Western Union Writing Competition
2nd place, 15-18 years short fiction - Imagination Creation Western Union Writing Competition
3rd place - Young Poets’ Awards, administered by the University of Canberra & the International Poetry Studies Institute
2016
Winner - Joseph Furphy Commemorative Literary Prize, Youth section
2nd place - Katharine Susannah Prichard Short Fiction Prize, Youth section
2015
Shortlisted - Somerset National Novella Writing Competition