Awards, fellowships and other honours
Recipient of a 2024 Regional Arts Victoria Quick Response grant to attend the Comic Art Workshop in Bundanon and the MPRG Artist-in-Residence Program (AiR) at Monmar (Police Point Shire Park and Point Nepean National Park)
Selected for the 2024 Comic Arts Workshop at Bundanon
Selected for the 2024 MPRG Artist-in-Residence Program (AiR) at Monmar (Police Point Shire Park and Point Nepean National Park)
Recipient of a 2023 Australia Council-funded residency at the Keesing Studio of the Cité internationale des arts in Paris, France
Shortlisted for the 2023 Stella Prize for big beautiful female theory
Shortlisted for the 2023 Australian Indie Book Awards for Illustration Nonfiction for big beautiful female theory
Recipient of a 2022 Creative Victoria Sustaining Creative Workers grant
Winner of the 2021 Melbourne Prize for Writers for essay, ‘The Fat Bitch in Art‘
Highly commended for the 2021 Peter Blazey Award for manuscript-in-progress, big beautiful female theory
Winner of the XYZ Award for Innovation in Spoken Word, for a collaborative piece, erotic thriller, with composition by experimental composer Jaslyn Robertston
Shortlisted for the Mary Gilmore award for poetry for If you’re sexy and you know it slap your hams
Recipient of a 2020 Australia Council Grant for Projects for Individuals, to develop manuscripts-in-progress: Big Beautiful Female Theory and As if for the first time
Recipient of a 2019 Copyright Agency CREATE grant to develop manuscript-in-progress, Big Beautiful Female Theory
Shortlisted for the 2019 Cosmonauts Avenue Non-Fiction Prize
Winner of the 2019 Copyright Agency–Sydney Review of Books Emerging Critics Fellowship for Victoria
Co-recipient of a 2019 City of Melbourne Quick Response Grant to facilitate Synthetic Heat, a reading series, with Ellena Savage
Recipient of a 2019 VicArts grant to develop manuscript-in-progress, Big Beautiful Female Theory
Joint winner of the Subbed In Chapbook Prize for poetry manuscript, If you’re sexy and you know it slap your hams (2018)
Selected for the 2018 EWF x Ubud Writers Festival Exchange
Winner of the RMIT non/fictionLab Prize for Experimental Non-fiction (2018)
Finalist for the Walkley Young Journalist Young Australian Journalist of the Year Award for Visual Storytelling (2018)
Winner of the Woollahra Digital Literary Award for Nonfiction (2018)
Felix Meyer Travel Scholarship (2018)
Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowship for Illustrators (2016)
Selected for MIFF Critics Campus (2015)