Awards & Prizes
‘Lumpectomy’ - winner, Landfall Essay Competition 2022
The Imaginary Lives of James Pōneke - longlisted, International Dublin Literary Award | longlisted, Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize, Ockham NZ Book Awards | runner up, NZ Heritage Book Awards, Fiction.
‘Black Milk’ - winner, Commonwealth Short Story Prize Pacific Region 2016
Where the Rēkohu Bone Sings - winner, Ngā Kupu Ora Fiction Book Award 2014 | longlisted, Dublin Literary Award 2016
‘This Compulsion in Us' - shortlisted, 2014 Landfall Essay Competition
Once Upon a Time in Aotearoa - winner, Nga Kupu Ora Fiction Book Award 2011
'Twitch' - winner, Royal Society of New Zealand Manhire Prize for Creative Science Writing 2009
'skin and bones' - winner, Pikihuia Award for Best Short Story in English 2009
R.G. Frean Prize for Creative Writing, Massey University, 2007
Fellowships & Residencies
Ursula Bethell Residency in Creative Writing 2022
Michael King Writer in Resident, Winter 2020
Beatson Fellowship 2016/17
Randall Cottage Writer in Residence 2014
Weltkulturen Museum Writer in Residence, Frankfurt 2012
Connections & Recommendations
INTERNATIONAL RIGHTS AGENT: Charlotte Seymour @ Johnson & Alcock Literary Agency, London
International Institute of Modern Letters
Lawrence Patchett, Editor
Ehara taku toa i te toa takitahi, engari he toa takitini - success is not the work of one, but of many.