Awards & Prizes

‘Lumpectomy’ won the 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’ won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize Pacific Region 2016

Where the Rēkohu Bone Sings won 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 won Nga Kupu Ora Fiction Book Award 2011

'Twitch' won Royal Society of New Zealand Manhire Prize for Creative Science Writing 2009

'skin and bones' won 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

Tauhou by Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall

Ultimo Press, Sydney

HarperVia, New York

Footnote Press, London

Ehara taku toa i te toa takitahi, engari he toa takitini - success is not the work of one, but of many.