Shortlisted
Australian Crime Writers Association
2018 Ned Kelly Award – Best First Crime

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Winner
2018 Indie Book Awards – Debut Fiction

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Shortlisted (Honourable Mention)
2018 Australian Book Industry Awards
Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year

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Shortlisted
2018 Australian Book Industry Awards
Literary Fiction Book of the Year

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Winner
2016 CWA Debut Dagger (UK)

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Finalist
2017 William Faulkner Creative Writing Prize  (US)
Novel – 'Wimmera'

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Finalist
2017 William Faulkner Creative Writing Prize  (US)
Novel – 'Frankie'

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Finalist
2017 William Faulkner Creative Writing Prize  (US)
Novel-in-progress – 'Kiss Me Quick'

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Shortlisted
2017 William Faulkner Creative Writing Prize  (US)
Short Story – 'The Fox'

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Third Prize
2017 First Novel Prize (UK)
Novel – 'Frankie'

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First Prize
2016 Carve Magazine – Premium Edition Contest (US)

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Commended
Fellowship of Australian Writers – National Literary Awards
2016 Jim Hamilton Unpublished Manuscript Award

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Second Prize
Fellowship of Australian Writers – National Literary Awards
2016 Angelo B Natoli Short Story Award

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Shortlisted
2016 Impress Prize for New Writers (UK)

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First Prize
2016 Darebin Mayor's Award for Writing

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Highly Commended
2016 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript

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Shortlisted
2016 Alan Marshall Short Story Award

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Longlisted
2017 Fish Publishing Short Story Contest

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Longlisted
2017 notJack Writers' Prize

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Honourable Mention
New Millennium Writings (US) – Literary Awards 2017

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Shortlisted
2016 Writers' and Artists' Short Story Competition (UK)

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Fellowship
2016 Melbourne Polytechnic Residential Fellowship

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Fellowship
2016 Varuna Residential Fellowship

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Highly Commended
2016 Rhonda Jankovic Literary Awards

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Runner-up
2015 Books Ireland Short Story Competition

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First Prize
2015 Write Around the Murray Festival
Short Story Award

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First Prize
2015 William Faulkner Literary Competition (US) - Novel Category

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Shortlisted
2015 InkTears Flash Fiction Contest (UK)

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Shortlisted
2015 Santa Fe Writers Project - Literary Awards (US)

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Longlisted
2016 Caledonia International Novel Award (UK)

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Highly Commended
2015 Grace Marion Wilson
Emerging Writers Competition

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Finalist
2015 Radio National Pocketdocs Competition

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Runner-up
2015 Sydney Writers' Room
Short Story Competition

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Third Prize
2015 Odyssey House Short Story Competition

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Longlisted
2015 Flash 500 Novel Competition (UK)

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Finalist
2015 Golden Quill Awards (US) - Flash Fiction

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Shortlisted
2015 Folio Journal (US)
Fiction Prize

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Shortlisted
Seizure 2015
Viva La Novella

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Longlisted
2015 Caledonia International Novel Award (UK)

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Longlisted
2015 Short Fiction Prize (UK)
Short Fiction - the  visual literary journal

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Runner-up
2014 NSW Writers' Centre
Varuna Fellowship

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Highly Commended
Varuna Residential Fellowship 2015

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Runner-up
2014 WRAP Synopsis Prize

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First Prize
2014 City of Rockingham
Short Fiction Awards

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Shortlisted
Cancer Council Arts Awards 2013