Awards

2023 – Commendation in the Victorian Community History Awards – for A Darker Shade of Moonlite.

2022 – Winner of the Special Book Award from 2020 as a part of the ACT Notable Awards 2022 for On A Barbarous Coast.

2022 – Shortlisted for an Aurealis Award for Science Fiction Novella, The Cruise to the End of the W0rld
2020 – Winner of the Roly Sussex Short Story Prize for the Lost Journal of Edmund Kennedy.
2019 – Winner of the ACT Writing and Publishing Awards, non-fiction book, for Backseat Drivers
2019 – Sortlisted for the ACT Writing and Publishing Awards for a fiction novel, Years of the Wolf
2019 – Shortlisted for the Aurealis Award for a Horror Novel for Years of the Wolf
2018 – Shortlisted for the Carmel Bird Digital Literary Award for a collection of short stories, Everybody Loves a Good Cook Book.
2018 – Shortlisted for the Victorian Community History Awards for Backseat Drivers
2018 – Shortlisted for the Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize for The Great Explorer.
2018 – Shortlisted for the Overland Fair Australia prize for Saw as we came in on both points of the Bay.
2016 – Tasmanian Writing Award, for the story No Man is an Island.
2015 – Victorian Community History Award for Ned Kelly Under the Microscope
2015 – ACT Writing and Publishing Award, for Uncle Adolf
2010 – Shortlisted for the ACT Writing and Publishing Awards, for Futures Trading.
2008 – Antarctic Arts Fellowship.
2006 – Queensland Premier’s Award (Steele Rudd Short Story anthology), for a Funny Thing Happened at 27,000 Feet.
2004 – Shortlisted for the Queensland Premier’s Award (Steele Rudd Short Story anthology award), for the Princess of Cups.
1999 – ACT Chief Minister’s Book of the Year Award for Unwritten Histories.
1998 – First Prize in the Max Harris Literary Awards, the story Ned Kelly’s Son.
1997 – Canberra Critics Circle award for literature.
1994 – Shortlisted for the Australian/Vogel Award for an unpublished manuscript for Of One Blood.