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AWARDS

2022: Aurealis Awards 2020 Best Science Fiction Novel  (Shortlisted) - “Deepwater King”

2021: Ditmar Awards
 2020 Best Novel  (Shortlisted) - “Monstrous Heart”

2021: Aurealis Awards 2020 Best Horror Novel  (Shortlisted) - “Monstrous Heart”

2021: Aurealis Awards 2020 Best Fantasy Novel  (Shortlisted) - “Monstrous Heart”

2019 - Highly Commended -  2019 Scarlet Stiletto Crime Fiction Awards for “Monsternight”

2018 - Ditmar Awards Best Short Story (Shortlisted) - “Mr Mycelium”

2017 - Aurealis Awards Best Short Science Fiction Story 2016  (Shortlisted) - “The Autumn Dog Cannot Live To Spring”

2017 - SCI FI LONDON 48 HR flash fiction Competition (2nd Place)  - “Honour Is Everything” (Later published as "A Code For Hope and Silence")

2017 - "The Autumn Dog Cannot Live To Spring" Honourable Mention in Ellen Datlow's Best Horror of The Year, Volume 9. 

2016 - Aurealis Awards 2015 Best Short Science Fiction Story (Shortlisted)  - “The Marriage of the Corn King” 

2015 - “Yard”, Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror Anthology 2014 

2014 - “The 92”, Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror Anthology 2013 

2012 - Cross Genre Award, 2012 Scarlet Stiletto Crime Fiction Awards for “The Autumn Dog Cannot Live To Spring”

2012 - Third Place, Conflux 8 Spec Fic Convention Writing Competition “The Last Beach” (also Published in Conflux 8 Convention Book)

2008 - Ditmar Awards Best Fan Production (Shortlisted)  @ Swancon  “The Liminal  - Directed by Claire McKenna”

2006 - Project Greenlight Australia Screenplay Competition - Top 20 Finalist - “The Liminal.”

2005 - The 2005 PAGE International Screenwriting Awards Semi-Finalist - Science Fiction category, "The Liminal"

2004 - Writers Of The Future (September Quarter) Honorable Mention “The Liminal”

2003 - Ditmar Awards Best Short Science Fiction Story (Shortlisted)  @ Convergence 2003 “Stealing Alice”

2002 - Aurealis Awards Best Horror Short Story (Shortlisted) - “What the Tide Brings”

2001 - Swancon Amateur Science Fiction Competition, Honorable Mention (Fiction Category) - “Yakub’s Law”

2001 - Swancon Amateur Science Fiction Competition, First Prize (Fiction Category) - “Olive Reason”

2001 - KSP Science Fiction/Fantasy Award (Kathleen Susanna Pritchard Literary Foundation) First Prize, “Stealing Alice”

2001 - KSP Science Fiction/Fantasy Award (Kathleen Susanna Pritchard Literary Foundation) Highly Commended, “Mutiny In Heaven”


​2000 - "Protection" - Shortlisted Top 10 for the George Turner Novel Award. (Even though I didn't win, this is interesting for the fact many of these at-the-time strangers in the shortlist are now friends!)


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