Writing Awards

Winner 2020 Mayoral Creative Writing Prize (‘Ignorance is Bliss’)

Winner Press 53 December 2020 53-word story competition

One of five winners - Australian Writers’ Centre short short short story comp 2018. Another story shortlisted

Highly commended - Zinewest 2021 ('Lies of Love') 

highly commended - Greenleaf picture book competition 2017 (‘How Numbers Saved The Day’)

Highly commended - Blacktown mayoral creative writing competition 2016 (‘Virtual World’)

Highly commended – Positive Words poetry competition 2019 (‘A World Without Shakespeare’)

Commended – Estelle Pinney Short Story Competition (‘The Lies of Love’)

Honourable mention – Jackie’s Spring, poetry for children competition (‘The Senses of Christmas’)

Honourable mention - Wow! Women on Writing flash fiction 2018 (‘Resilience’)

Final round judging - WOW! Women on Writing creative non-fiction essay (‘Empty Page’)

Shortlisted - Booranga Writers' Prize 2021 ('Soul on Fire')

Shortlisted - Coal Creek Literary Festival 2021 ('Resilience')

Shortlisted – Fiction Factory flash fiction 2020 (‘Resilience’)

Shortlisted – Buzz Words children’s short story 2019 (‘The Pompous Princess and The Fortunate Frog’)

Shortlisted – Booranga Writer’s Prize 2019 (‘Adrenaline’)

Shortlisted - EJ Brady, Gabo Prize 2019 (‘The Decision’) 

Shortlisted - Buzz Words children’s short story 2018 (‘Cyber- parents’)

Shortlisted - Positive Words magazine 2018 (‘Resilience’)

10th – 2018 CYA aspiring picture book competition (‘Science and Magic’)

Longlisted – Australian Writers’ Centre Furious Fiction Competition, Oct 2020 (‘What’s In A Genre?’)

Longlisted – Fiction Factory flash fiction competition 2021 (‘Aspirations’)

Longlisted – Fiction Factory short story competition 2020 /21 (‘A Moment of Kindness’)

Longlisted – Fiction Factory short story competition 2020 (‘Eternal Peace’)

Longlisted – Aniko Press 2021 (‘Aspirations’)

Longlisted – Aniko Press 2020 (‘The Newsbringer’, ‘To Dream’, ‘Pay It Forward’)

Longlisted – Atlantis international short story competition 2018 “top 40”(‘Adrenaline’)

Longlisted - EJ Brady 2018 (‘A Moment Of Kindness’)