Awards, Prizes and Fellowships

Fellowships & Scholarships

2025 Frank Moorhouse Fellow

2023 Kill Your Darlings New Critic Award

2022 Marten Bequest recipient

2022 Peter Blazey Fellow

2021 Kat Muscat Fellow

May-June 2021 Running Dog Micro-Resident

2020-21 Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellow

Runner up 2021 Kill Your Darlings New Critic Award

Highly Commended 2021 Peter Blazey Fellowship

Longlisted for 2020 Penguin Random House WriteNow Program

2019 Felix Meyer Scholarship

Prizes & Awards

Shortlisted for 2025 Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Writing (Poetry) (‘Contrapuntal Facing Houla, Southern Lebanon’)

Shortlisted for 2023 Judith Wright Poetry Prize (‘because a wind blazes’)

Shortlisted for 2024 Peter Porter Poetry Prize (‘Blagaj, Mostar’)

Shortlisted for 2023 Woollahra Digital Literary Award (‘Everything I Don’t Know How to Say / sve što ne znam kako da kažem’)

Highly Commended for 2023 Newcastle Poetry Prize (‘my father sits in a room alone’)

Finalist for Best of the Net 2022 (‘First Year After War’)

Longlisted for 2020 Peach Mag Gold Poetry Prize (‘First Year After War’)

Shortlisted for 2020 Woollahra Digital Literary Award (‘Kin’)

Shortlisted for 2020 Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Writing (‘Conditioned Response’)

Semi-finalist for 2019 Boulevard Nonfiction Contest for Emerging Writers (‘Conditioned Response’)

Shortlisted for 2019 Deakin University Nonfiction Prize (‘A Teleology of Folding, and of Dying’)

Contact

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