Awards & Events

Awards

‘As much as fits upon an aibika leaf’ (draft version):

• 2013 shortlisted for Publishers’ Award, Varuna, the National Writing House
• 2014  Residential Fellowship (two weeks)

Papers delivered:

‘Discovery – the Reality of PhD Life’ – December 2013 English and Creative Arts Colloquium, Murdoch University, Perth, W.A.

‘Responsible Writing: choosing how to tell the stories of marginalised characters’ – 23 to 25 November 2011 Ethical Imaginations: Writing Worlds, 16th Conference Of The Australasian Association Of Writing Programs, Byron Bay NSW.

‘Thought and Feeling:  Finding a Sense of Truth in the Writing of Fiction’- 18 to20 June 2010 Great Writing Conference, The National Institute for Excellence in the Creative Industries, Bangor University, Bangor, Wales, UK.

‘Thought and Feeling: Finding a Sense of Truth in the Writing of Fiction’ – November 2010 Voicing the unseen: Just Write It Postgrad Conference, Curtin University, Perth, W.A.

‘Looking behind the book: creative writing as pre-literature’ – 7 December, 2010 Icons of Change English and Creative Arts Colloquium, Murdoch University, Perth, W.A.

‘Looking behind the book: creative writing as pre-literature’ – 25 to 27 November 2010 Strange Bedfellows, Or Perfect Partners, 15th Conference Of The Australasian Association Of Writing Programs, Melbourne, Vic.

‘A journey into the margins of creative wilderness: unplanned and accidental events of research’ – December 2009, English and Creative Arts Colloquium, Murdoch University, Perth, W.A.

‘A journey into the margins of creative wilderness: creating marginalised characters from the margins of writing practice’ – 26 to 28 November 2009 Margins And Mainstreams, 14th Conference Of The Australian Association Of Writing Programs, School of Media Arts – Wintec, Hamilton, NZ.