Accredication & Accolades

♦ Masters in Creative Writing - Macquarie University

♦ Write Your Novel (6 months) - Australian Writers Centre

♦ Novel & Script Second Draft - Bronte Writers Studio

♦ Novel & Script First Draft - Bronte Writers Studio

♦ Grad Dip Journalism - Murdoch University, Western Australia

♦ MBA in Communications - Murdoch University, Western Australia

Education & Courses

Awards & Prizes

○ ASA/Copyright Agency mentorship, 2024 – Highly Commended, The Sister Tree

○ HarperCollins Australia’s Banjo Prize, 2023 – Shortlisted, The Sister Tree

○ Affirm Press Mentorship, 2023 – Commended, The Sister Tree

○ Varuna The National Writers House, 2020 – Invited Residency, The Sister Tree

First Pages Prize, Stockholm Writers Festival, 2019 – Commended, The Sister Tree

○ Australian Journalists Association, Best Newcomer, 2000 – Winner

WA Office of Youth Affairs Best Print Story, 2000 – Winner

○ WA Office of Youth Affairs Best Journalist Under 25, 2000 – Winner

Writing Groups

A proud member of the All Write Club since 2021 – a robust group of 16 graduates of Write Your Novel at Australian Writers' Centre, who exchange work weekly, chat daily and love a good malapropism.

We had our inaugural live catch-up at Sydney Writers Festival in May 2022, with 10 of us meeting from Queensland, Tasmania, New South Wales, Victoria and ACT (we missed our Perth, Darwin, South Australia and Tokyo members).

We organised our first writing retreat as a group in October 2024, and spent a glorious week in Daylesford, Victoria.

Also a member of Peninsula Pens, a group of Northern Beaches writers aspiring to publish their novels. We meet six times a year to swap work, critique, attend the Northern Beaches Reading Festival and celebrate our wins.