Category: Competitions and Awards
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2024 Poetry Shortlist Woollahra Digital Literary Award
I am shortlisted in the poetry category of the 2024 Woollahra Digital Literary Award. You can read my poem ’23 Vignettes on the Rental Crisis’ that was published in Island Online and vote in the Readers’ Choice Award.
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2024 Australian Jewish Book Award Winner
I was awarded The Jewish Independent Young Jewish Writers Award as part of the 2024 Shalom Australian Jewish Book Awards for my second poetry collection Anxious in a Sweet Store (Upswell, 2023). The idea for the theme and title of my second poetry collection Anxious in a Sweet Store began two months before the launch of my first poetry collection Amnesia Findings, in…
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2023 QUT Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award
I was awarded the 2023 QUT Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award in recognition of an outstanding contribution to knowledge and excellence in higher degree research for my PhD Braided Memoir, Twine, and Psychiatric Survivor Storytelling: Converging Narrative Medicine, Mad Studies, and Transmediality. You can read my thesis here and buy the memoir I wrote as the…
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Finalist: 2024 Queensland Literary Awards
I am a finalist in the Queensland Literary Awards, in the category ‘the Courier Mail People’s Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award’ for my memoir How to Knit a Human (2024, NewSouth). If you enjoyed reading my book you can vote for it on State Library Queensland’s website anytime before 5pm, Thursday 15 August…
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Shortlist: 2024 Australian Jewish Book Awards
I have been shortlisted in the 2024 Shalom Australian Jewish Book Awards in the Jewish Independent Young Jewish Writers Award category for my book Anxious in a Sweet Store (2023, Upswell). This second illustrated poetry collection braids two parts of my identity in my writing – my Jewish culture and lived experience within mental health.…
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Shortlist: 2023 Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest Award
Thank you to judges Maxine Beneba Clarke, Cassandra Atherton, and Jeanine Leane for shortlisting me in the 2023 Helen Anne Bell bequest. Congratulations to the two other shortlisted poets: Angela Gardner and Holly Friedlander Liddicoat and to the winner Svetlana Sterlin. I was very grateful and honoured to have been shortlisted for my unpublished collection…
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2023 Fryer Library Fellow
I am grateful to have been awarded the 2023 Fryer Library Fellowship, where I will research the Rudolf Pekarek Papers held in the UQ Fryer Library Collection. More details about my project and the fellowship can be found here.
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2022 Brisbane Portrait Prize Finalist
I’m excited to be a finalist again in the Brisbane Portrait Prize for my self-portrait ‘Layers and Light’. Take a look at the online gallery and vote for your favourite in the people’s choice! The finalists exhibition will be held at the Brisbane Powerhouse from 29 September to 30 October 2022. You can book your…
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Playlab Theatre’s 2022 Incubator Program
I feel very lucky to be selected as part of Playlab Theatre’s 2022 Incubator program, where I will participate in workshops with five other wonderful playwrights (Amy Chien-Yu Wang, Felicity Morton, Kurt Duval, Michael Sams, and Tammy Weller). I am excited to receive feedback and support in drafting my own play over the coming year,…
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Red Room Poetry Fellowship Shortlist 2022
I feel honoured to be shortlisted for the Red Room Poetry Fellowship 2022, among so many poets I admire. Congratulations to: Shastra Deo, Scott-Patrick Mitchell, Jessica Wilkinson, Jill Jones, Rozanna Lilley, Bonny Cassidy, Anne Casey, Heather Taylor Johnson and Audrey Molloy. Further details are over at Red Room Poetry here. My sincere thanks to the…