awards

  • The Pearl Prize 2025

    The finalists for next year’s Pearl Prize have been announced, and I’m thrilled to be on the list. Now in its second year, The Pearl Prize is presented with Osborne and Fawkner Publishing and supported by Midsumma Festival. All fifteen finalists will be published in The Pearl Prize 2025 anthology, available during Midsumma. This is

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  • It’s a huge thrill and honour to have been a finalist in this year’s Queensland Literary Awards. Broken Rules and Other Stories was one of five books shortlisted for the University of Southern Queensland Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection. Thanks so much to the judges and everyone involved in the awards. I

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  • Double the cheer

    Congratulations to Transit Lounge on two of their titles making the shortlists for this year’s Queensland Literary Awards. Details here. A doubly good reason to celebrate!

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  • I’m over the moon that Broken Rules and Other Stories has been shortlisted for this year’s University of Southern Queensland Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection. To see the five shortlisted books and read the judges’ comments on them, click here. More information on the Queensland Literary Awards can be found at State

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