AWARDS & PRIZES

Fiction

  • Shortlisted, Bridport Short Story Prize 2026

  • Finalist, Ninth Letter Literary Award 2026

  • Longlisted, ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize 2026

  • Longlisted, Bath Short Story Prize 2024

  • Winner, Felix Meyer Award 2005 - for the manuscript-in-progess, City of Lost Feet. Mary Fisher Meyer Foundation, Melbourne.

Non-Fiction

  • ABS Past President’s Bronze Book Award 2013 for Negotiating Afropolitanism (Rodopi 2011)

GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS

Fiction

  • Shortlisted, Giancarlo DiTrapano Foundation Residency 2026

  • Recipient, Varuna New Writer’s Fellowship 2003 - for the manuscript-in-progress, Dear Circus Aerialist. Eleanor Dark Foundation, NSW.

Non-Fiction

  • Recipient, ARC CHE Visiting Research Fellow 2015, University of Melbourne

  • Recipient, British Academy Visiting Research Fellow 2010, Birkbeck College, University of London