Published Work
Novels
Short Stories & Essays
- Short story “Carve” in Meanjin, Autumn 2023
- Short story “Let Them Eat Cake” in The Saturday Paper, January 2023
- Short story “Churn” in The Saturday Paper, July 2022
- Article on ocean swimming in The Guardian, June 2022
- “Bendalong”, Openbook, Summer 2021
- “Jingle Bell Sock”, The Big Issue, December 2021
- “Cultivating Resilience by Protecting Vulnerability“, Writing NSW, August 2021
- “A Snail’s Place”, The Big Issue, March 2021
- “The Baby Store”, Newcastle Short Story Award Anthology, May 2020
- “The Burning”, Meanjin Blog, January 2020
- “Dummy”, Griffith Review 64: The New Disruptors, April 2019
- “Her history, my silence”, Choice Words, Allen & Unwin, March 2019
- “The Hunt“, The Big Issue Fiction Edition, August 2018
- “In the Dunes”, Sydney Noir, Akashic Books, 2018, and Brio Books in Australia
- “The Call of the Stars”, Backstory Journal, Issue Four, 2017
- “Five Star”, published in Kill Your Darlings, April 2017
- “On Ice”, published in Kill Your Darlings No. 19, October 2014, reprinted in Best Australian Stories 2015
- “The Arizona Bar”, published in Sleepers Almanac X, Sleepers Publishing, October 2015
- “There’s so much you have to know”, published in the Sleepers Almanac No. 9, Sleepers Publishing, April 2014
- “On listening to Gillian Welch” published in Readings Monthly, April 2014
- “Sao”, published in the Review of Australian Fiction, March 2014
- Essay on wisdom in Finding our place: thoughts on love, hope and belonging, The Benevolent Society’s 200th anniversary book, November 2013
- “Kid-Free”, published in the Sleepers Almanac No. 8, Sleepers Publishing, March 2013
- “Hot Air Balloon”, published in the 2007 UTS Writers Anthology, What You Do and Don’t Want
Some of my reviews and other journalism
Awards & Grants
- Awarded a Varuna Fellowship Writing Retreat 2023
- Winner of the 2020 Blake-Beckett Trust Scholarship from the Australian Society of Authors
- “The Burning” shortlisted for the Woollahra Digital Literary Award, 2020
- Established Writer-in-Residence at the Katharine Susannah Prichard Writer’s Centre in Perth, October/November 2020
- Shortlisted for the Text Prize for YA and Children’s Writing, 2019
- Shortlisted for the Overland Fair Australia Prize in Fiction, 2017
- Winner of the Historical Novel Society Australasia Short Story Prize, 2017
- Recipient of an Australia Council for the Arts Individual Arts Project Grant in 2016 for third novel
- Recipient of a Career Fund grant from the Copyright Agency to attend the 2016 Tin House Summer Workshop in Portland, Oregon
- What Was Left Shortlisted for the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal 2014
- What Was Left Longlisted for the Voss Literary Prize 2014
- Runner-up in the NSW Writer’s Centre Varuna Fellowship 2013
- Awarded a Varuna Fellowship Writing Retreat 2013
- Author of winning essay for Parenting Media Association Awards in “Personal Essay” category 2011
- Shortlisted for the Varuna Publisher Fellowship Awards 2011