COMPETITION CREDITS:
2026:
- Received lovely personalised feedback from The Royal Society of Literature V.S.Pritchett Prize, most notably that the story’s ending was ‘spectacularly beautiful’.
- Tidbit on giving advice to my younger writing self printed in MSLEXIA magazine issue 108
2024-2025:
- Finalist in the London Independent Short Story Competition 2024
- Long listed for the TSS Cambridge Prize 2025
- Mentioned by the Hastings Book Festival Short Story Competition 2025
- Top 7% Bridport Short Story Prize 2025
2023 :
- Runner Up Mslexia Short Story Competition
- Selected as an Oxbelly Fiction Fellow for the inaugural Writers Retreat in Costa Navarino, Greece from over 1200 candidates. Retreat led by Chigozie Obioma and my workshop mentoring by Rebecca Makkai.
- Long listed for Commonwealth Short Story prize
2022:
- Runner Up Mslexia Short Story Competition
- Honourable Mention in the Women on Writing Creative Non-Fiction Contest
- Long listed for the Minds Shine Bright Short Story (Australia)
2021:
- Long listed for Bridport Short Story Prize
- Long listed for Commonwealth Short Story Prize
- Short listed for Bournemouth Short Story Prize (story 1)
- Long listed for Bournemouth Short Story Prize (story 2)
- Chosen in Royal Society of Literature’s top 10 Only Connect write ups
2020:
- Long listed for Mslexia Short Story Competition
- Short listed for Bridport Short Story Prize
- Top 15% First Pages Prize (Novel Opening)
2019:
- Long listed for Fish Publications Short Story Prize
2018:
- Short listed for Fresher Writing Novel Opening Prize
1988 (no typo, that is indeed 1988!):
- Young Writer Distinction by The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia’s largest newspaper) for the Short Story Competition