• Longlisted in the 2024 Love to Read Local Flashscapes Contest for ‘They Came in Search of Riches, Kalgoorlie, 1895’.
  • Longlisted and recognised as a ‘Notable Chapbook’ for ‘Ghosts and Whispers’ in The Masters Review Chapbook Contest, 2023.
  • Finalist in the 2023 NWF/Joanne Burns Microlit Award for ‘Shattered Facades’.
  • Shortlisted for ‘The Rest of her Days’ in the 2020 Rose Frankcombe Short Story Award, Society of Women Writers, Tasmania.
  • Highly Commended for ‘A Fishing Safety Guide for Non-fishers and Fishers’ in The Port Stephens Literature Award 2019.
  • My poem ‘Lost on the Rua DQ Instituto Industrial’ was selected as a winner and finalist in the 2019 In my View competition.
  • Highly Commended for ‘Sword Dance’ in the 2017 Scribes ‘Short Takes’ Prose Competition (Memoir category).
  • Second Prize for ‘The Room They No Longer Enter’ in the 2016 Scribes ‘Short Takes’ Prose Competition.
  • Finalist for ‘The New Millennium’ in the 2016 Tom Howard/John H Reid Fiction & Essay Contest
  • Commended certificate for ‘uh-sim-uh-leyt’ in the 2016 FAWWA Lyndall Hadow-Donald Stuart Short Story Prize
  • Commended certificate for ‘Sweet and Sour’ in the 2015 Peter Cowan Short Story Competition
  • Commended certificate for ‘Black on Black’ in the 2015 Scribes Prose Competition (Memoir category)
  • 1st prize for ‘Billboard’ in the short story category of the 2014 Good Dog International Film Festival
  • Shortlisted finalist for ‘Elizabeth Taylor Eyes’ in the 2014 Peter Cowan 600 Short Story Competition.