grants and awards

2022 | Inaugural John Rowe Writers-in-Residence with Quinn Eades, University of Sydney

2021–2025 | Connecting Asia-Pacific Literary Cultures: Grounds, Encounter and Exchange, ARC Discovery Project DP210102478 | $367,341

2020–2022 | SingLit Station, Singapore | WrICE $135,000

2019 | Scribe & Varuna Fellowship Award

2019 | Nominated US Pushcart Prize, ‘Towards skin’

2017 | DISRUPT, Melbourne Knowledge Week, City of Melbourne | $3,000

2017 | Shortlisted for the Filipino 37th National Book Awards for PRESS: 100 Love Letters

2017–2018 | WrICE (Phase 2), Copyright Agency Asia-Pacific Partnership, Copyright Agency Cultural Fund | $75,000

2016–2017 | NAVA Australia Council, Australian Artists Grant, No Notes (this is writing) | $1,000

2016–2017 | New Colombo Plan Intercultural Collaborative Creative Writing Studio, Study Tour to China | $59,400

2016–2017 | City of Melbourne Women Writers in the City | $17,000

2015 | Outstanding Field: Artistic Research Emerging from the Academy at the VCA

2014–2017 | Copyright Agency Asia-Pacific Partnership, Copyright Agency Cultural Fund | $225,000

2014 | Writing Fellowship, Tyrone Guthrie Arts Centre, Ireland

2013–2014 | Copyright Agency Asia-Pacific Partnership, Copyright Agency Cultural Fund | $50,000

2013 | International Nonfiction Writers Fellowship, School of English and Philosophy, University of Iowa, Iowa, supported by Copyright Australia and University of Wollongong

2012 | Shortlisted for the 2012 Colin Roderick Literary Award for Bite Your Tongue

2011–2013 | StoriesNOW, Copyright Agency Cultural Fund | $100,000

2010 | Writers-in-residence, Copyright Agency | $90,000

2009 | Examiners’ Commendation for Outstanding Thesis, University of Wollongong

2006–2007 | Joint Artists Residency: Schloss Haldenstein, Switzerland, with the artist/cartoonist Judy Horacek, School of Art, ANU and Canton of Graubunden

1999 | The Secret Life of Canberra, FoCA99, Myer Foundation

1999 | Writing for Theatre Project with BITS Theatre Co and The Company, artsACT

1997 | Professional Development Grant, Melbourne Writers Festival, Monstalvat, ArtsACT

1996 | ACT Book of the Year for Imago

1996 | ACDU: Under $10,000 Category, Round 1, New Writers Fellowship at Varuna | $10,000

1995 | ANUTech Reporter Short Story Award, ‘Swimming breaststroke with pink plastic fish’ ‘Swimming breaststroke again with pink plastic fish’ | $2,500