Awards & Prizes

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• 2026 Longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award

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• 2025 Winner Asian Australian Leadership Awards - Arts & Culture Category (Formerly 40 under 40 most influential Asian Australians) 

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• 2025 Winner of a Katharine Susannah Prichard Caruso Writer-in-Residence Fellowship

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• 2025 Awarded a CreateSA Grant for second novel-in-progress

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• 2024 Winner of the Arts SA Wakefield Press Unpublished Manuscript Award for the novel Salt upon the Water

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• 2024 Shortlisted for a South Australian Literary Fellowship for Emerging Writers

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• 2022 Awarded an Arts SA Grant for The Saltbush Review
   

• 2022 Winner of the Liminal x Writers SA Editorial Mentorship (Fiction)

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• 2021 Winner of a 2021 Write It Fellowship with Penguin Random House Australia

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• 2018 Research Training Program Award at the University of Adelaide

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• 2018 Shortlisted for the Deborah Cass Prize

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• 2017 Winner of an Asialink Arts Residency

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• 2017 Participant in the WriteNow London scheme, selected by Penguin Random House UK

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• 2017 Longlisted for the Lucy Cavendish College Cambridge Fiction Prize

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• 2016 Highly Commended for the Chapter One Prize

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• 2016 Longlisted for the Richell Prize for Emerging Writers

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• 2015 Highly Commended for the Ray Koppe Young Writers’ Residency

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• 2015 Shortlisted for the Writing a Novel Scholarship, Faber Academy Allen & Unwin