Resume
Qualifications:- 2001-Present Freelance Writer
- 2011-Present Tutor, Creative Writing (CECC and Camp
Creative, Bellingen)
- 2001 MA Professional Writing (UTS)
- 1990 Graduate Diploma Social
Ecology (UWS)
- 1988-1993 Principal, Libby Sommer Productions Pty
Ltd
- 1977-1988 Assistant Producer, Dramas and
Documentaries (ABC TV)
Awards:
- The Ladder and Its Dangers longlisted for the 2019
joanne burns Microlit Award. Available for inclusion in a range of multi-platform
activities organised by Spineless Wonders including #storybombingNWF20,
podcasts, live performance and the Microflix Awards.
- In the Mall (microlit) selected as an entry in the Microflix Writers Awards available to be chosen by filmmakers for adaptation to a short film for the 2019 Microflix Awards. On the theme of SOUND it is available to view on the Microflix SOUND extracts page on the website of Australian short story publisher, Spineless Wonders.
- Lost in Cooper Park (novel) notable entry Disquiet Literary Contest 2018
- Lost In Cooper Park (novel) notable entry Seizure's Viva La Novella Competition 2018
- My Year With Sammy, (novella) winner Society of Women Writer's Fiction Book Award 2016
- The Foreign Speaker novel-in-progress made Final Shortlist of Varuna Residential Fellowship 2016
- My Year With Sammy, (novella) one of six shortlisted manuscripts in Seizure's Viva La Novella Competition 2015
- My Year With Sammy, (novella) longlisted for the Mslexia Memoir Competition in the UK in 2014
- It's Pot Luck When You Move Into A Unit, winning entry in the UTS Alumni Short Short Story Competition 2014
- Morning Storm, Outstanding Essay Certificate, Black
Dog Institute 2008
- Joint winner Waverley
Council Haiku Contest January 2007
- The Usual Story (novel), Emerging
Writers Grant for New Work, Literature Board, Australia Council, October
2006
- The Usual Story (novel) short-listed
for Varuna/Harper Collins Award for Manuscript Development, February 2005
- The Usual Story (novel), Emerging Writers Grant for
New Work, Literature Board, Australia Council, October 2004
- Stories from Bondi (novel) short-shortlisted for Varuna/Harper
Collins Award for Manuscript Development. February 2003
- Stories from Bondi (novel) developed as part of Varuna Emerging
Writer’s Mentorship Program with Amanda Lohrey, (Australia Council) August
2000
- Stories from Bondi (novel) shortlisted and highly commended for the
DJ O’Hearn MemorialFellowshipWriter-in-ResidencyMelbourne University 2000
- It’s All in the Rhythm (story) shortlisted CanberraNatShortStoryAwards 1999
- Bronte Café (poem) shortlisted Waverley Council Shifting Sands Comp 1998
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