awards - General

Winner of a 2021 UQ Alumni Award

Listed among the 2019 Australian Financial Review “Women of Influence” (for advocacy)

Finalist for the 2019 Women’s Agenda Leadership Awards ‘Agenda Setter of the Year’ (for advocacy)

Winner of a Queensland Literary Award: 2018 Premier’s Young Publishers and Writers Award

Winner of a 2018 Lord Mayor's Young and Emerging Artis's Fellowship for travel to NYC in 2019 (for Beauty)

Jacky Winter Gardens residency, October 2017

Winner of a 2017 Griffith Review Queensland Writer’s Fellowship

Recipient of Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival 2017 writing mentorship

Recipient of the 2016 Ubud Writers Festival Exchange Program Scholarship

Inaugural Kat Muscat Fellow (March 2016 to March 2017)

Shortlisted for the Ray Koppe Young Writers’ Residency 2016

awards - Journalism

Shortlisted for a 2023 Walkley Award for ‘Debt-a-porter’ in The Monthly

Awards - Who Gets to be Smart

Longlisted for the 2022 Australia Book Industry Awards for Non-Fiction

Shortlisted for the 2022 Indie Book Awards

Shortlisted for the 2021 Dymocks Book of the Year

Longlisted for the 2021 Nib Award for research in writing

Awards - Eggshell Skull

Shortlisted for the 2019 Council for Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (CHASS) Book Prize

Winner of the 2019 Ned Kelly Award for True Crime

Winner of the Best Debut Crime Book at the 2019 Davitt Awards for Crime Writing

Winner of the Biography of the Year at the 2019 Australian Book Industry Awards

Shortlisted for the Matt Richell New Writer Award at the 2019 Australian Book Industry Awards

Longlisted for the 2019 Stella Prize

Shortlisted for the 2019 Indie Book Awards

Winner of the 2019 People’s Choice Award at the 2019 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards

Shortlisted for the 2019 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards in the non-fiction category

Winner of the 2018 Waverley Council "Nib Award" for research in fiction or non-fiction People’s Choice category