Literary Awards

PROFESSIONAL AWARDS

• Winner of the Ned Kelly Award 2018: Best Crime Novel for “Crossing the Lines”
• Shortlisted for the Davitt Award 2018: Best Adult Crime Novel for “Crossing the Lines”
• Shortlisted for Australian Book Industry Awards 2016 : Best Adult Book by Small Publisher for “Give the Devil His Due”
• Shortlisted for Davitt Award for 2016 : Best Adult Crime Novel for “Give the Devil His Due”
• Eminent Writer in Residence: Museum of Australian Democracy 2015
• Shortlisted for Ned Kelly Award 2015 : Best Crime Novel for “A Murder Unmentioned”
• Highly Commended Davitt Award 2015: Best Adult Crime Novel for “A Murder Unmnetioned”
• Shortlisted for Australian Book Industry Awards 2015 : Best Adult Book by Small Publisher for “A Murder Unmentioned”
• Shortlisted for the Scarlett Stiletto Award for 2013 : Best Short Story for “Anna’s Coat”.
• Shortlisted for Davitt Award for 2013 : Best Adult Crime Novel for “Paving the New Road”
• Winner Davitt Award for 2012 : Best Adult Crime Novel for “Decline in Prophets”
• Boroondarra Literary Awards2012 : Highly Commended for “Delivered”
• Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize 2011 : Best First Book in Pacific and South East Asian Region for “A Few Right Thinking Men”
• Varuna Fellowship : Offered the Pan Macmillian Fellowship 2010
• Hachette Livre Unpublished Manuscript Award 2010 : “Chasing Odysseus” longlisted
• National Fellowship of Writers Literary Awards 2009 : James Hamilton Prize for Unpublished Manuscript, Commended for “Chasing Odysseus”
• Shortilisted for the NSW Genre Ficton Award 2009 for “Glaucippus is Slain”