Awards, Publications & Residencies

    • Winner of the 2025 Finding Beauty Poetry Prize — As a matter of great importance

    • Highly Commended for the South Coast Writers Centre 2025 Poetry Award — Conditions for metamorphosis

    • Commended for the Woorilla Poetry Prize — Meeting feral ends

    • Shortlisted for the Robert Gray Prize for Poetry — When I could walk again

    • Nominated for Best of the Net by The Hopper — I arrived at the body

    • Longlisted for the Newcastle Short Story Award — What’s a few tomatoes?

    • Best of Australian Poems — When the world ends, there will be singing

    • Nature-Human Dialogues — It is not hard to touch a face

    • Meanjin 84.2 — A brown dog runs the shoreline

    • Nominated for the Pushcart Prize by The Hopper – I arrived at the body

    • Highly Commended for the South Coast Writers Centre 2024 Poetry Award – After my friend died, I took her to the aquarium

    • Shortlisted for the Heroines Women's Writing Prize – A thousand bells

    • Longlisted for the Frontier Poetry 2024 Nature & Place Prize – From Dumfries to Edinburgh & Elsewhere

    • Emerging Writers’ Festival Featured Artist – A feather landing

    • RUSSH Literary Showcase Finalist – The Girl and the Riverweed

    • Australian Poetry Anthology Vol. 11 – Another dream about a good man

    • Griffith Review 83: Past Perfect – Pentax ME Super

    • Cordite: TREAT – El Gatito

    • Blue Bottle Journal – No room in a heron's beak

    • Glassworks – Andalucía en octubre & Lessons from a whippet on a springtime walk

    • Shortlisted for the 2023 Woorilla Poetry Prize – From the banks, or a bough

    • Longlisted for the 2023 South Coast Writer's Centre Poetry Award – From the banks, or a bough

    • Shortlisted for the Joyce Parkes Women's Writing Prize – A Thousand Bells

    • The Suburban Review Hills Hoist Vol. 3 – After I have packed up your things

    • Winner of the 2022 Joyce Parkes Women’s Writing Prize – Rapunzel

    • Shortlisted for the 2022 Joyce Parkes Women's Writing Prize – I fed my femininity to an ocean bird

    • Shortlisted for the 2022 South Coast Writer's Centre Poetry Award & Wollongong Art Gallery Prize – What I would tell you, if you asked

    • Westerly 67.2 – Exhumation

    • Australian Poetry Anthology Vol. 9 – Someplace

    • Fine Print Magazine Issue 28 – Constellations of Significance

    • Aniko Magazine Issue 3 – A walk in the rain

    • Humana Obscura Issue 4 – My soul crawls back to the riverbank

    • Runner-up in the Judith Rodriguez Open Section of the 2021 Woorilla Poetry Prize: An Ontology of Morning

    • Runner-up in Baby Teeth Journal's Blackout Poetry Competition

    • South Coast Writers' Centre Anthology, Legacies: Reflections on home

    • Baby Teeth Journal: Gathering

    • Block Party Magazine Issue 1: Devorarme

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