Awards & Accreditations

AHWA Robert N Stephenson Award (artwork etching by Greg Chapman)

Awards

  • 2025- BSFA Long-list Three Curses & Other Dark Tales and Cursed Shards
  • 2024-Ditmar Awards Nominee Best New Talent
  • 2024-Nebula Awards Online Scholarship (SFWA)
  • 2024- Melbourne Supanova Guest
  • 2023- Recipient of Horror Writers Association (HWA) Diversity Grant
  • 2023- Recipient of Horror Writers Association (HWA) Mentorship – Lee Murray
  • 2023- Ditmar Awards Nominee for Best Novella (Bluebells) and Best New Talent
  • 2022- AHWA Robert N Stephenson Flash Fiction winner for ‘Carnival Girl’
  • 2021- Recipient of Australian Horror Writers Association (AHWA) Mentorship – Dan Rabarts
  • 2005 NSW Writers Centre Mentorship- Dr Kate Forsyth

Judging

  • 2024- Judge for the British Fantasy Awards Horror Novel
  • 2024- Convenor & Judge for the 2023 Australasian Shadows Awards for Edited Works
  • 2022- Convenor & Judge for tbe 2021 Australasian Shadows Awards for Collected Works
  • 2022- Judge for the 2021 Aurealis Awards Best Horror Novel and Best Horror Novella
  • 2021- Judge for the 2020 Australasian Shadows Awards Collected Works

Accreditations

  • 2025- The Carterhaugh School of Folklore and the Fantastic: Trapped in A Gothic Novel
  • 2024- The Carterhaugh School of Folklore and the Fantastic: Monstrous Women
  • 2024- Horror Writers Association (HWA) Horror University: Abelism in Horror
  • 2024- Conflux Workshop Design & Delivery for Longhand, Typing & Dictation: Or all Three?
  • 2024- Conflux, Invited panelist
  • 2024- SFWA Nebula Awards Conference, Co-host of “LGBTQI Writers Meet Up”
  • 2024- SFWA Nebula Awards Conference, Office Hours Mentor
  • 2024- Continuum/NatCon, invited panelist
  • 2024- Continuum/NatCon Workshop Designer Writing Across Formats
  • 2024- Australian Fairy Tale Society Concert, invited storyteller
  • 2024- The Carterhaugh School of Folklore and the Fantastic: Foundations of Dark Academia
  • 2024- The Carterhaugh School of Folklore and the Fantastic: Introduction to British Folklore
  • 2023– Genius Loci Writing Workshop – Kaaron Warren at Asylumfest Convention
  • 2023- The Carterhaugh School of Folklore and the Fantastic: Introduction to Fairy Tales
  • 2023- The Carterhaugh School of Folklore and the Fantastic: The Witch in Folklore & Literature
  • 2023- Horror Writers Association (HWA) Horror University: Writing Your Horror Novel in Six Weeks – Jason Henderson
  • 2023- Asylumfest Horror Convention, invited panelist
  • 2023- Conflux/NatCon Convention, invited panelist
  • 2022- The Carterhaugh School of Folklore and the Fantastic: Gothic Realms
  • 2022- The Storied Imaginarium: Snow White Sampler
  • 2022- University of Iceland: The Medieval Icelandic Sagas
  • 2022- Australian Writers Centre: Fiction Essentials: Grammar & Punctuation; Fiction Essentials: Dialogue; Fiction Essentials: Scenes, Historical Fiction– Dr Pamela Hart
  • 2022- Horror Writers Association (HWA) Horror University: Into the Dark Woods – Dr Carina Bissett
  • 2022- Horror Writers Association (HWA) Horror University: Manuscript Magic – Lee Murray & Angela Yuriko Smith
  • 2021- Australian Writers Centre: Fiction Essentials: Structure; Fiction Essentials: Point of View- Dr Pamela Hart
  • 2020- University of Alberta: Indigenous Canada
  • 2019- Australian Writers Centre: Fiction Essentials: Characters-Dr Pamela Hart
  • 2019- Continuum/NatCon Convention, invited panelist
  • 2016- ACT Writer’s Centre: Plotting & Planning Masterclass – Dr Kate Forsyth

Active Memberships

Australian Society of Authors (ASA), Australasian Horror Writers Association (AHWA), British Fantasy Society (BFS), Horror Writers Association (HWA), British Science Fiction Association (BSFA), Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA).