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.