Awards

                                                                                                                2025
  • How the Arch Holds the Sky - Shortlisted - Poetry D’Amour
  • Roots - Shortlisted - Bridport Poetry Competition
  • Siren - Shortlisted - Ironbridge Festival Poetry Competition
  • Time of Day - Shortlisted - Ver Poets Competition
  • Casualty - Honourable Mention - Dark Poets Prize 2
  • False Pastoral - Second Prize - Plough Prize
  • - Longlisted - Plough Prize
  • - Longlisted - Plough Prize
  • - Shortlisted - Plough Prize
  • - Shortlisted - Plough Prize
  • The Calendars - Highly Commended - Desmond O’Grady Poetry Competition
  • Street - Wendy Flemming Urban Realist Award - Melbourne Poets Union International Poetry Competition
  • A Field Study of War - Shortlisted - Fiddlehead Poetry Contest
  • A Recording of a Recording - First Prize - The Letter Review
                                                                                                                2024
  • ​In the Botanic Gardens - Shortlisted - Bedford Poetry Competition
  •  - Longlisted - Bedford Poetry Competition
  •  - Longlisted - Bedford Poetry Competition
  • The Other Ghosts - Shortlisted - Spelt Magazine Nature Poetry Competition
  • Spite - Longlisted - Gloucestershire Poetry Society Open Competition
  • briefly, the world - Shortlisted - New Millennium Writings Award 58
  • Shellback - Shortlisted - Dark Poets Prize
  • The Cattle Yard - Third Prize - Poets, Prattlers and Pandemonialists
  • We Reap - Highly Commended - Passionfruit Poetry Prize 2024
  • Cement - Shortlisted - KSP International Poetry Competition
  • The Dam Dries - Winner - Val Vallis Award for an Unpublished Poem
  • The Questionnaire - Shortlisted - Val Vallis Award for an Unpublished Poem
  • - Winner - Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize
  • The Armistice - Highly Commended - Winchester Poetry Competition
  • The Other Ghosts - Shortlisted - Spelt Magazine Nature Poetry Competition
  • - Longlisted - Gloucestershire Poetry Society Open Competition
  • The Plague Bells - Longlisted - Oxford School of Poetry, Poetry Competition
  • Sun Burn - Shortlisted - Wells Festival of Literature Poetry Competition
  • - Longlisted - Bridport Poetry Prize
  • Sonnets with the Moon - Shortlisted - Newcastle Poetry Prize 2024
  • Mourning - Winner - Hunter Writers Centre Award (Grieve)
  • Cause and Effect - Winner (Joint) - Letter Review
  • The Stigmata of Apple Mac - Winner - Ware Poets Open Poetry Competition
  • The Most Wished For - Winner - Fingal Poetry Prize
  • The Turn - Winner - Ros Spencer Poetry Prize
  • The Mortgage - 2nd Prize - Ver Poetry Competition
  • - Longlisted - Fish Poetry Prize
  • - Longlisted - Fish Poetry Prize
  • - Longlisted - Fish Poetry Prize
  • An Open Mind - Shortlisted - Wolverhampton Literature Festival
  • The Next Sunrise - Shortlisted - Wolverhampton Literature Festival
  • A Demonstration of Chaos Theory - Shortlisted - 29th MPU International Poetry Competition
  • Seconds of the Wreck - Winner Martin Downey Jr Urban Realist Award - 29th MPU International Poetry Competition
  • The Bottomless Pit - Shortlisted - 29th MPU International Poetry Competition
  • Collapsing Black Hole Sestina - Shortlisted - Gwen Harwood Prize
                                                                                                                2023
  • The Big One - Winner - Buzzwords International Poetry Competition
  • - Longlisted - Letter Review Poetry Competition
  • The Marriage of General Tom Thumb and Lavina Warren - Shortlisted - ACU Poetry Competition
  • Siege of Bakhmut - Shortlisted - ACU Poetry Competition
  • A Shuttered Candle - Shortlisted - Lane Cove Literary Awards
  • The Burning House Problem - Longlisted - University of Canberra Vice Chancellor’s Poetry Prize
  • Natural Causes - Winner - University of Canberra Vice Chancellor’s Poetry Prize
  • - Longlisted - Bridport Poetry Prize
  • - Shortlisted - Bridport Poetry Prize
  • - Longlisted - Plaza Poetry Competition
  • The ‘Trembling Giant’ - Shortlisted - New Writers Poetry Competition
  • ​The Procedure - Highly Commended - Ros Spencer Poetry Prize
  • Jane Doe - Commended - New Millennium Writings Poetry Prize No. 55
  • A Tour in the Garden of Earthly Delights - Shortlisted - Arc Poem of the Year
  • The ‘Trembling Giant’ - Shortlisted - New Writers Poetry Competition
  • Begats - Winner - New Millennium Writings Poetry Prize No. 54
  • Graduation Day - Shortlisted - Val Vallis Award for an Unpublished Poem
  • Walking the Boundary - Highly Commended - 28th MPU International Poetry Competition
  • The Country Cut - Highly Commended - 28th MPU International Poetry Competition
  •  - Shortlisted - Letter Review Prize
  • The Bees - Winner - Bedford Writing Competition
  • One Hundred Names for Rain - Shortlisted - Bedford Writing Competition
  • Predators - Shortlisted - Bedford Writing Competition
  • - Longlisted (2) - National Poetry Competition
                                                                                                                  2022
  • The Pelican Feeder - Longlisted - Peter Porter Poetry Prize 2022
  • The Flame - 2nd Prize - Martha Richardson Memorial Poetry Prize 2022
  • The Numb Drug - Highly - Commended Martha Richardson Memorial Poetry Prize 2022
  • Unreal City - Shortlisted - Aesthetica Creative Writing Competition
  • The Last Birds - Longlisted - Rialto Nature and Place Competition
  • The Misdirection - Finalist - Montreal International Poetry Competition
  • The Man Who Repairs Electric Chairs Speaks of Art - Finalist - Montreal International Poetry Competition
  • Harold - Shortlisted - Welsh Poetry Competition
  • Scene in Media Res - 2nd Prize-  Bridport Poetry Prize
  • The Denials - Winner - Hungry Hill Politics
  • Requiem for Ronald McDonald - Finalist - Newcastle Poetry Prize
  • That Circus - Shortlisted - FAWQ Poetry Competition
  • Toasting the Wrong Winners - Shortlisted - FAWQ Poetry Competition
  • The Big C - Longlisted - ACU Poetry Prize 
  • The Day We Raised the Train - Longlisted - ACU Poetry Prize
  • The End of the Regime - Longlisted - ACU Poetry Prize
  •  - Shortlisted - Spelt Poetry Prize
  • I have Kept Your Phone - Shortlisted - Fish Poetry Prize
  • Natural Causes - Longlisted - Fish Poetry Prize
  • Night Photos - Longlisted - Fish Poetry Prize
  • Things Fall Apart - Longlisted - Fish Poetry Prize
  • If You Have To Ask How Much, You Can’t Afford It - Longlisted - Plough Poetry Prize
  • Animals With Human Voices - Highly Commended - Anne Elder Award
  • The Ninth Circle - Shortlisted - Teignmouth Poetry Contest
  • There’s an App for That - Shortlisted - Teignmouth Poetry Contest
  • The Stain - Shortlisted - Fiddlehead’s 2021 Ralph Gustafson Poetry Contest
​                                                                                                                    2021
  • The Gallery of Winds - Longlisted - Peter Porter Poetry Prize
  • An Open Mind - Longlisted - The National Poetry Competition
  • The Grasshopper’s Legacy - Finalist - 50th New Millennium Awards
  • New England Highway, Late - Winner - Ipswich Poetry Festival, Open Category
  • Failures - Winner - KSP Centre’s Poetry Award
  • The Women - Longlisted - Lane Cove Literary Awards
  • The Dawn - Highly Commended - ACU Poetry Prize
  • How to Hold a Knife - Winner - Booranga Prize for Poetry
  • Bitter - Shortlisted - Wigtown Poetry Prize
  • She Starts Playing After Ten Years of Silence - Highly Commended - Poetry D Amour Competition 2021
  • What We Learned from the Geisha Girl - David Lloyd Funerals Award - Grieve Writing Competition
  • Aum Shinrikyo Farms Sarin - Winner - Melbourne Poets Union International Poetry Competition
  • A Smallholding - 2nd Prize - Gregory O’Donoghue Poetry Competition
  • Callus - Winner - Café Writers Open Poetry Competition
  • An Inscription on a Grave - Winner - Magma Judge’s Prize
  • The Devil’s Wife - Shortlisted - Fish Poetry Prize
  • Ode to My Envy - Longlisted - Fish Poetry Prize
  • The Longest Wave - Longlisted - Fish Poetry Prize
  • The Beasts - Longlisted - Fish Poetry Prize
                                                                                                                      2020                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
  • The Way - Highly Commended - Martha Richardson Memorial Poetry Prize
  • Carpool - Longlisted - Peter Porter Poetry Prize
  • A Grandfather’s Story - Highly Commended - Ipswich International Poetry Competition Reg Grundy and Joy Chambers
  • The Resurrection Machine - Highly Commended - Woorilla Poetry Prize
  • Measures of Truth - Winner - Newcastle Poetry Prize
  • Love and Other Junk - Highly Commended - 2020 Poetry d’Amour Competition
  • All the Colours of the Sky - Finalist - Atlanta Review 2020 International Poetry Competition
  • ​Bookend to a Flood - Shortlisted - Montreal International Poetry Prize
  • Chained Sonnet - Shortlisted - Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize
  • Atlas Carried the World - 3rd Prize - ACU Poetry Prize (Theme of ‘Generosity’)
  • A Thousand Hammers from a Thousand Smiths - Commended - Ros Spencer Poetry Prize
  • Chaff - Longlisted - Fish Poetry Prize
  • How to Win an Argument - Highly Commended - Ethel Webb Bundell Literary Awards
  • The Nave (Unpublished Manuscript) - Shortlisted - Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript
  • The Handshake - Winner - Newcastle University Poetry Competition
  • The Nave -  Winner - Moth Poetry Prize
  • Alien - Shortlisted - Malahat Review Open Season Award
  • The Great Mystery  - Commended - The Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Prize

                                                                                                                                            2019
  • ​My Father’s Suit  -  Highly Commended  -  Katherine Susannah Pritchard Poetry Prize
  • Grey’s Anatomy  -  3rd Prize  -  Ipswich Poetry Feast Open Category
  • Twined  -  Longlisted  -  Bridport Poetry Prize
  • Nothing  -  Shortlisted  -  Newcastle Poetry Prize
  • The Careless Shore  -   Longlisted  -  Canberra University Vice Chancellor’s Poetry Prize
  • Egg  -  Finalist   -  The New Guard/Knightville Poetry Prize
  • The Eighth Strike  -  1st Prize   -  Woorilla Poetry Prize
  • Ice and Glass  -  1st Prize  -  Val Vallis Poetry Prize
  • Bezoar  -  2nd Prize   -  Val Vallis Poetry Prize
  • 12 Ways to Look at a Landscape  -  Joint 1st Prize   -  Philip Bacon Ekphrasis Prize
  • Curtain Call   -  Highly Commended   -  Philip Bacon Ekphrasis Prize​
  • The Line Marker’s Testimony   -  Highly Commended   -  Bruce Dawe Poetry National Poetry Prize
  • The Map-Maker’s Tale   -  1st Prize   -   Welsh International Poetry Prize
  • Changing the Sheets  -  1st Prize  -  2018 WB Yeats Poetry Prize
  • The Last Shave   -  Equal 2nd Prize  -  2018 WB Yeats Poetry Prize
  • Mangrove Canal Road   -  Highly Commended   -  2018 WB Yeats Poetry Prize
  • An Immolation  -   Shortlisted   -   Plough Poetry Prize 2018
  • Narrow Band  -  Shortlisted  -  Plough Poetry Prize 2018
  • The People from the Future   -    Longlisted    -   Plough Poetry Prize 2018
  • Saturn Devouring His Son   -   Commended    -   Gregory O’Donoghue Poetry Prize
  • Lazarette on Peel Island   -   Commended   -   Tom Collins Poetry Prize
​                                                                                                                                                 2018
  • On the Day You Launch    -   Winner   -  Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize
  • Windward   -  Commended   -   MPU International Poetry Prize
  • Desert Island Records   -  Shortlisted   -  KSP Poetry Prize
  • Once Upon a Time   -  Winner   -  The New Guard Knightville Poetry Competition
  • Blood Moon  -  Longlisted   -   Lane Cove Literary Awards
  • The Cold Snap  -  Winner   -  Open Age, Other Poetry – Ipswich Poetry Feast
  • A Giant   -  Highly Commended  -  Open Age, Other Poetry – Ipswich Poetry Feast
  • Precarious Balance   -   Highly Commended  -  Open Age, Other Poetry – Ipswich Poetry Feast
  • A Survey of Australia’s Religions   -   Shortlisted   -   Newcastle Poetry Prize
  • pH  -  2nd Prize  -   Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript
  • What We Know About Her   -   2nd Prize    -   Val Vallis Poetry Prize for a Single Poem
  • The Tree is Burning  -    Shortlisted   -    Australian Capital University Poetry Prize
  • Laika Was a Dog   -   Shortlisted  -   Australian Capital University Poetry Prize
  • Lady With an Ermine   -     Longlisted   -   University of Canberra Vice Chancellor’s Poetry Prize
  • The Lesson   -   Shortlisted  -  Nillumbik Ekphrastic Poetry Prize
  • The Darkness   -  Finalist   -    45th New Millennium Awards
  • Marine Snow    -  Highly Commended   -   Woorilla Poetry Prize
  • The Cursed Ones   -   2nd Prize   -  Scribe Writers Literary Awards
  • Yucatan   -   Winner   -   Ethel Webb Bundell Literary Awards
  • Post Truth   -   3rd Prize   -   Ethel Webb Bundell Literary Awards
  • Empty Buildings   -  2nd Prize (Joint)  -  WB Yeats Poetry Prize
  • A Kristallnacht Soon to Come  -  Highly Commended  -  WB Yeats Poetry Prize
  • Fruit Picking   -    Longlisted   -   The Plough Prize (United Kingdom)
  • Canned Conch    -     Finalist    -  Mississippi Review (United States)
                                                                                                                                                  2017
  • The Sulphur Crested Cockatoo Opens His Dictionary to F  -  Shortlisted  -   Tom Collins Poetry Prize
  • How Else But the Day  -   Longlisted   -   National Poetry Competition (United Kingdom)
  • The Prayer of Small Men   -   Commended   -  Glen Phillips Poetry Prize
  • The Uses of a Shark   -   Highly Commended   -   June Shenfield Poetry Award
  • The Shore That Shelters My Children  -   2nd Prize  -   Robyn Mathison Poetry Prize
  • Dinners With Dead People   -   Shortlisted   -   Oxford Brookes International Poetry Prize
  • Gibbous    -   Highly Commended    -  Lane Cove Literary Awards
  • A Collective of Nouns   -   2nd Prize   -   Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize
  • Endurance   -   Commended    -  Ipswich Poetry Feast – Open Category
  • Appraisal   -   3rd Prize    -    Ipswich Poetry Feast – Open Category
  • Drone   -  Longlisted  -  Vallum Award for Poetry
  • New Born   -   Shortlisted   -  ACU Prize for Poetry
  • Alternative Energy   -   Shortlisted   -  ACU Prize for Poetry
  • Xeno’s Paradox  -   Longlisted   -  University of Canberra Vice Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize
  • The Haitian Miracle Man  -   2nd Prize   -  Ros Spencer Poetry Prize
  • Private Lives   -  Commended  -  Scribe Writers Poetry Prize
  • The Moth Years  -   3rd Prize   -  Patrons Prize for Poetry
  • The Thesaurus   -   Highly Commended   -   Patrons Prize for Poetry
  • Company Men   -  Shortlisted  -  Newcastle Poetry Prize
  • Baroque  -   Highly Commended  -  FAWQ Literary Awards
  • pH   -  Winner  -   Peter Porter Poetry Prize
  • Reviewing the Waves   -  Commended   -   Eastwood/Hills Fellowship Literary Prize
  • Knot   -   Commended   -  PAVE/Woorilla Poetry Prize
  • Returned   -   Longlisted   -   FAW John Shaw Neilson Poetry Award
  • Rare Birds   -   Shortlisted  -   Henry Kendall Poetry Prize
  • Signs and Semiotics  -  Highly Commended   -  WB Yeats Poetry Prize
  • Slow Things   -  2nd Prize   -  WB Yeats Poetry Prize
  • A Sky Empty of Birds  -    Winner   -   WB Yeats Poetry Prize
  • A Solid Octave    -   Shortlisted   -   Nillumbik Ekphrasis Poetry Award
                                                                                                                                              2016
  • What Happened to the Oysters   -   2nd Prize   -   FAW John Shaw Neilson Poetry Award
  • The Memory Castle   -   Commended  -    Eastwood/Hills Fellowship Literary Prize
  • Orange  -   Commended  -   WB Yeats Poetry Prize
  • The Fade Out    -   Winner   -   Adelaide Plains Poetry Competition
  • Meta    -    Commended   -    Nillumbik Ekphrasis Poetry Award
  • The Treasurer    -   Shortlisted   -    ACU Prize for Poetry
  • Meditations   -  Shortlisted  -  ACU Prize for Poetry
  • Peter Cowan Poetry Prize  -  Commended   -  The Saturday Afternoon Football Call
  • Transfer Failures   -   Shortlisted  -   Newcastle Poetry Prize
  • Sand   -   Highest Queensland Entry   -  Val Vallis Award
  • The Cranes  -   Highly Commended   -  Ipswich Poetry Feast – Open Category
  • Colony Collapse Disorder  -   2nd Prize  -   Ipswich Poetry Feast – Open Category
  • Cortege for Richard the Third   -  Commended   -  FAW Tasmania Poetry Prize
  • The Beach Eats Boys   -  2nd Prize   -   Robyn Mathison Poetry Prize
  • The Child and the Vulture  -  Longlisted   -  Ron Pretty Poetry Prize
  • Facts and Fantasies  -  Winner  -  KSP Poetry Awards
  • Rules for the Dead   -  Highly Commended  -  Martha Richardson Memorial Poetry Prize
  • Extinct   -  Highly Commended   -  Glen Phillips Poetry Prize
  • Revelation According to Java   -  Highly Commended  -  Glen Phillips Poetry Prize
                                                                                                                                            2015
  • Leech Evening at Lamington  -  Winner  -  WB Yeats Poetry Prize
  • The Telomere Clock  -  2nd Prize   -  WB Yeats Poetry Prize
  • Fiddler Crabs  -  Highly Commended  -  WB Yeats Poetry Prize
  • The Fine Print is Very  -  Commended   -  WB Yeats Poetry Prize
  • The Moment of The Melody  -  Winner  -  Nillumbik Ekphrasis Poetry Award
  • Sometimes We Fall Short   -  2nd Prize   -  Positive Words Annual Poetry Prize
  • Hope   -  Commended  -  Tabor Adelaide Creative Writing Awards
  • The Folding   -  Shortlisted  -  Axel Clarke Poetry Prize               
  • Fragile  -  Longlisted   -  Grieve Poetry Competition
  • Thermodynamic Asymmetries  -  Highly Commended   -  Philip Bacon Ekphrasis
  • Predicting a Greensborough Woolworths Sit In  -  Winner  -  Ipswich Poetry Feast – Open Category
  • Ouroboros   -  Highly Commended  -  FAW Tasmania Poetry Prize
  • The Button Lesson   -  2nd Prize -  FAW Tasmania Poetry Prize
  • Agnosiophobia   -  Highly Commended  -  Robyn Mathison Poetry Prize
  • Type Specimen   -  2nd Prize  -  Robyn Mathison Poetry Prize
  • Poised   -  Winner  -  Robyn Mathison Poetry Prize
                                                                                                                                          2014
  • A Better Fish  -  Highly Commended  -  Peter Cowan Writers Centre
  • MH370 Ghazal   -  Commended   -  FAW Tasmania Poetry Prize
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