Awards
2022
Winner of the Martha Richardson Poetry Prize: Every Heart Sings, Ballarat.
2020
Winner of the Martha Richardson Poetry Prize: Bee Hives at Night
2017
Winner of the Vox Bendigo Fyffe Award for Poetry: Epic
2014
Shortlisted for the ABR Peter Porter Poetry Prize: The Olivet Discourse
Shortlisted for the Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize: Pantomime
Highly Commended in the Axel Clark Memorial Poetry Prize: Lignocaine
Commended in the Tabor Adelaide Creative Writing Awards: That Afternoon Room
2013
Shortlisted for the ABR Peter Porter Poetry Prize: Prophecy
Recipient of an Australia Council New Work grant (developing): The Apocalypse Awards
2011
Winner of the Verandah Literary Award: Made from the Matter of Stars
Winner of the FAW Di Cranston Award: How the Goose Broke Open
Shortlisted for the Newcastle Poetry Prize: The Lullaby Pregnancies
2010
Winner of the Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize: endtime
2008
Highly Commended for the Bruce Dawe Poetry Prize: The Last Day
Recipient of an Australia Council New Work grant (developing): How The Goose Broke Open
2007
Winner of the Woorilla Poetry Prize: gently against the grain
Winner of the Bauhinia Literary Awards: Slater Bug/Fremantle Lunatic Asylum
2006
Recipient of an Australia Council New Work grant (emerging): The Ghost Poetry Project
2005
Recipient of an Australian Society Authors mentorship program
2004
Winner of the Melbourne University Postgraduate Prize for Poetry: Not Dead Just Gone to Battle
Winner of the Crash Test Drama reading series: Cable Car of Death (short play)
Winner of the Martha Richardson Poetry Prize: Bee Hives at Night
2017
Winner of the Vox Bendigo Fyffe Award for Poetry: Epic
2014
Shortlisted for the ABR Peter Porter Poetry Prize: The Olivet Discourse
Shortlisted for the Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize: Pantomime
Highly Commended in the Axel Clark Memorial Poetry Prize: Lignocaine
Commended in the Tabor Adelaide Creative Writing Awards: That Afternoon Room
2013
Shortlisted for the ABR Peter Porter Poetry Prize: Prophecy
Recipient of an Australia Council New Work grant (developing): The Apocalypse Awards
2011
Winner of the Verandah Literary Award: Made from the Matter of Stars
Winner of the FAW Di Cranston Award: How the Goose Broke Open
Shortlisted for the Newcastle Poetry Prize: The Lullaby Pregnancies
2010
Winner of the Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize: endtime
2008
Highly Commended for the Bruce Dawe Poetry Prize: The Last Day
Recipient of an Australia Council New Work grant (developing): How The Goose Broke Open
2007
Winner of the Woorilla Poetry Prize: gently against the grain
Winner of the Bauhinia Literary Awards: Slater Bug/Fremantle Lunatic Asylum
2006
Recipient of an Australia Council New Work grant (emerging): The Ghost Poetry Project
2005
Recipient of an Australian Society Authors mentorship program
2004
Winner of the Melbourne University Postgraduate Prize for Poetry: Not Dead Just Gone to Battle
Winner of the Crash Test Drama reading series: Cable Car of Death (short play)