Portfolio
Novels
Denizen | July 19 2022 (Penguin Random House)
- Winner of the 2021 Penguin Literary Prize
- Shortlisted for the 2023 Ned Kelly Awards - Best Debut
- Shortlisted for the 2022 Australian Shadows Awards - Best Novel
Guest Posts
Show Your Working | Kill Your Darlings | August 2022
What I'm Reading | Meanjin | July 2022
For The Guardian
James McKenzie Watson’s summer: heat that could roast a chook and wombats hogging the fan | December 2023
Country living is about community – so why are we building inhospitable estates? | January 2023
As a troubled bush teen, I found meaning in an unlikely place: I became a nurse | November 2022
Mental health outcomes are worse in the bush, partly because it’s easier to get a gun than get help | September 2022
Fellowships
2021 Varuna Residential Fellowship | for Denizen
2021 KSP Fellowship | for Denizen
2020 Writing NSW Varuna Fellowships | Highly Commended for Denizen
Short Fiction
Dear Mr Clarke | Brave Voices Magazine, Issue #5 | Published December 2019
The Lumbering Pulse | Baby Teeth Journal | Published April 2019
The Visitor | Highly Commended, InkTears Flash Fiction Contest 2018
Twin Suns | Finalist, Newcastle Short Story Award 2018 (appears in anthology)
Palliation | Major Prize Winner, Lane Cove Literary Awards 2017 (appears in anthology)
Westward | Shortlist, Elyne Mitchell Writing Award 2017 (appears in anthology)
Dysphasia | Selected, Outback Writers' Festival Short Story Competition 2017 (appears in anthology)
Butter Chicken | Major Prize Winner, Grieve Writing Competition 2016 (appears in anthology)
Book Reviews
Ghost Species by James Bradley | Reviewed for Newtown Review of Books
A Bigger Picture by Malcolm Turnbull | Reviewed for Newtown Review of Books
Halibut on the Moon by David Vann | Reviewed for Newtown Review of Books
The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara | Reviewed for Newtown Review of Books
The Butcherbird Stories by A.S. Patric | Reviewed for Newtown Review of Books