AWARDS
2020 – shortlisted for The Horne Prize for the essay, The Silent Pandemic
2020 – ROOM FOR A STRANGER long listed for the Miles Franklin award
2020 – ROOM FOR A STRANGER longlisted for the ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year
2020 – ROOM FOR A STRANGER shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards (Multicultural award)
2020 – ROOM FOR A STRANGER longlisted for the Booktopia Favourite Australian Book
2018 – shortlisted for The Horne Prize for the essay, All the Other Stories
2018 – AUSTRALIA DAY winner of the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction
2018 – AUSTRALIA DAY shortlisted for the Indie Book Award for Debut Fiction
2018 – AUSTRALIA DAY longlisted for the Dobbie Literary Award
2018 – AUSTRALIA DAY longlisted for the ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year
2018 – AUSTRALIA DAY long listed for the ABIA Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year
2017 – AUSTRALIA DAY shortlisted for the 2017 Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction
2016 – Winner of the 2016 Griffith REVIEW Novella Project
2016 – Winner of the 2016 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Unpublished Manuscript
2016 – Longlisted for the Fish Short Story Prize and the Fish Flash Fiction Prize
2016 – Runner up in the short story section of the Rhonda Jankovic Literary Awards
2016 – Shortlisted and commended in the inaugural Deborah Cass Prize for writers from migrant backgrounds
2016 – Shortlisted in the Margaret River Press Short Story Competition
2015 – Highly commended prizewinner in The Bridport Prize
2015 – Highly commended in The Tasmanian Writers’ Prize
2015 – Shortlisted in The Hal Porter Short Story Competition
2015 – Commended in the FAW Angelo B Natoli Short Story Award
2015 – Longlisted for the Fish Short Story Prize
2014 – Longlisted for the [untitled] short story competition
2013 – Highly commended in The Ada Cambridge Biographical Prose Prize
2010 – Runner up in the Grace Marion Wilson Emerging Writers’ Competition
2009 – Highly Commended in the inaugural Lord Mayor’s Creative Writing Awards
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