Bite Your Tongue has been shortlisted for the 2012 Colin Roderick Award.

The Colin Roderick award is presented annually by the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies at James Cook University and recognises ‘the best book in Australia which deals with any aspect of Australian

The judges, Professor Donat Gallagher, Professor Peter Pierce, and Associate Professor Stephen Torre, were impressed by the high quality of the titles submitted and by the wide range of modes, styles, subjects and innovative approaches in the 2011 publications. The short list was chosen from an exceptionally strong and varied field and comprises poetry, prose fiction, memoir, historical biography and literary exploration.