Awards / Notable Achievements

This Is My Dad

2024 Forevability Book Awards Picture Book Worldwide category – Third  Place

 

 

Oswald Messweather

2021 SCBWI Recommended Reading List October Disability Awareness month

 

 

 

All Aboard!

2020 Intrepid Times Fearless Footsteps anthology publication competition – Winner

Pippa

2020 QLD Premier’s Reading Challenge Booklist Prep – Year 1

2019 NSW Premier’s Reading Challenge K-2 Booklist

 

At The End of Holyrood Lane

2019 NSW Premier’s Reading Challenge K-9 Booklist Level 3-4
2019 SCBWI Crystal Kite Members’ Choice Awards 2019 – Winner Australia New Zealand region

The Fix-It Man

2018 NSW Premier’s Reading Challenge K-9 Booklist Level K-2

 

 

The Chapel of Unlove

2016 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards Digital wa-pba-shortlisted-graphic-stickernarrative category – Shortlist

 

Concrete Boots

2016 Charlotte Duncan Award – First Prize

 

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2015 Charlotte Duncan Award – Highly Commended

 

Park Ride

2014 Charlotte Duncan Award – Shortlist

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Marlee’s Mozzie Madness

2013 Chapter Book for Young Readers CYA Writing for Children Competition – Second Place

2011 Marshall Allan Hill Children’s Short Story Writing Award (as the short story version Voice of Winston)Shortlisted

 

Undead Ed

2012 10th Kathleen Julia Bates Memorial Short Story Competition Highly Commended

2012 Writing Classes for Kids Competition – Highly Commended

 

The Boy Who Lost His Laugh

2012 Writing Classes for Kids Competition – First Place

2012 Marshall Allan Hill Children’s Short Story Writing AwardThird Place

 

The Fix It Man

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2013 KBR Unpublished Picture Book Manuscript Awards – Shortlisted

 

Rainforest Magic

2011 KBR Unpublished Picture Book Manuscript Awards – Special Mention

2011 7th Kathleen Julia Bates Memorial PB Writing for Children Competition Shortlisted

 

cal-logo2013 CAL Creative Industries Career Fund grant