Awards
Book Length Publications
2018 Ginninderra Press The Hard Seed ~ A Novel
2016 Picaro Poets Fractures and Other Thin Confusions ~ Poetry chapbook
2014 Ginninderra Press Cleaning out the Closet ~ Short story collection
2013 Ginninderra Press Writing in Virginia’s Shadow ~ Short story collection
Chapbooks
2016 Fractures and Other Thin Confusions
2020 Rain and Shelter
Short fiction
2018 “Waking Up” Tamba
2018 “Lizard” Whipstck
2016 "Hauntings" Bukker Tillibul
2016 “Me and Bobby”, “The Visit”, “Never Done”, Idiom 23
2015 “A Very Tall Story”, Irish Heritage Journal
2015 “Not all Legacies are an Act of Generosity”, Hecate
2013 “Scene Thirteen” Offset
2012 “Peripheral Vision” Scintillae
2011 “Cleaning out the Closet” Australian Adoption Journal, (pen name Mia Francis)
2010 “Homage to Eveline” Hecate
2008 “In the Eye of the Beholder” Taheke
2008 “Till Death us do part” Painted Words
2007 “Eulogy for a Myth” Arabesques Review
2007 “Grand Titles” The Irish Heritage Journal
2007 “The Full Job” Idiom 23
2007 “Our Darker Purpose” Thirst
2006 “La Tristesse” Hecate
2006 “Gravy and Tragedy” Tamba
2006 “Peripheral Vision” Idiom 23
2005 “Mother Superior’s Garden Party” The Irish Heritage Journal of Australia,
2005 “Altarpiece” New England Review
2005 “Mother Superior’s Garden Party” Idiom 23
2004 “Brother” Pendulum
2003 “Forbear”, Kalimat
Poetry
2019 "Winter Lease" Takehe Literary Journal
2019 "Nature Studies" Takehe Literary Journal
2019 "Missing" One Last Poem Anthology
2019 "Fallen" Mountain Secrets Anthology
2018“Ghost Love” Co.lab Exhibition, Write on the Fringe, Bendigo Writers Festival
2017 “Rose Songs” Co.lab Exhibition, Write on the Fringe, Bendigo Writers Festival
2018 “Night Dreams” Wild Anthology
2009 “Verification” Hecate
2016 “Interior View” Cartel’s Artisan Journal, Bendigo Fringe
2016 “Never Done”, Idiom 23 & Co. Lab Words and Art Bendigo Write on the Fringe
2016 “Straitjacket Blues” First Refuge: Poems on Social Justice
2012 “Still Life” exhibited as part of Co. Lab Words and Art Bendigo Write on the Fringe
2011 Windmills Mental Health, Slideshow
2010 MPU Regional Poet’s “Landlines” Poems: Crack, Funeral for an Exile.
2009 “Verification” Hecate
2007 “Missing” Tamba
2009 Painted Words Child Portrait
Radio Broadcasts
2006 Radio NAG Words and Music Gravy and Tragedy
2006 Radio Adelaide Writers and Writing Gravy and Tragedy
Anthologies
2008 Culture is… Walking Shoes (Wakefield Press)
2008 Growing up Asian in Australia Are you Different (Black Inc) pen name Mia Francis
- Peter Cowan Short Story Award 2018
- Short listed Tamar Valley Short Story Competition 2016
- Nomination Nancy Millis Medal (top 5% of theses examined) 2015
- Katharine Susannah Prichard Short Fiction First Prize 2015
- Katharine Susannah Prichard Short Fiction Commended 2015
- Meridian Award La Trobe University 2012
- C.J. Dennis Short Story Highly Commended 2004
- ArtsNet East Gippsland Passion Competition Highly Commended 2004 Bauhinia Literary Awards Highly Commended 2004
- Port Phillip Citizens for Reconciliation Award First prize 2003
- Whipstick Writing Project with Mark Brandi 2018
- Memoir Program City of Melbourne with Lee Kofman 2016
- HardCopy National Manuscript Development Program 2016
- APA PhD Scholarship 2012
- La Trobe University Top-Up Offer 2012
Book Length Publications
2018 Ginninderra Press The Hard Seed ~ A Novel
2016 Picaro Poets Fractures and Other Thin Confusions ~ Poetry chapbook
2014 Ginninderra Press Cleaning out the Closet ~ Short story collection
2013 Ginninderra Press Writing in Virginia’s Shadow ~ Short story collection
Chapbooks
2016 Fractures and Other Thin Confusions
2020 Rain and Shelter
Short fiction
2018 “Waking Up” Tamba
2018 “Lizard” Whipstck
2016 "Hauntings" Bukker Tillibul
2016 “Me and Bobby”, “The Visit”, “Never Done”, Idiom 23
2015 “A Very Tall Story”, Irish Heritage Journal
2015 “Not all Legacies are an Act of Generosity”, Hecate
2013 “Scene Thirteen” Offset
2012 “Peripheral Vision” Scintillae
2011 “Cleaning out the Closet” Australian Adoption Journal, (pen name Mia Francis)
2010 “Homage to Eveline” Hecate
2008 “In the Eye of the Beholder” Taheke
2008 “Till Death us do part” Painted Words
2007 “Eulogy for a Myth” Arabesques Review
2007 “Grand Titles” The Irish Heritage Journal
2007 “The Full Job” Idiom 23
2007 “Our Darker Purpose” Thirst
2006 “La Tristesse” Hecate
2006 “Gravy and Tragedy” Tamba
2006 “Peripheral Vision” Idiom 23
2005 “Mother Superior’s Garden Party” The Irish Heritage Journal of Australia,
2005 “Altarpiece” New England Review
2005 “Mother Superior’s Garden Party” Idiom 23
2004 “Brother” Pendulum
2003 “Forbear”, Kalimat
Poetry
2019 "Winter Lease" Takehe Literary Journal
2019 "Nature Studies" Takehe Literary Journal
2019 "Missing" One Last Poem Anthology
2019 "Fallen" Mountain Secrets Anthology
2018“Ghost Love” Co.lab Exhibition, Write on the Fringe, Bendigo Writers Festival
2017 “Rose Songs” Co.lab Exhibition, Write on the Fringe, Bendigo Writers Festival
2018 “Night Dreams” Wild Anthology
2009 “Verification” Hecate
2016 “Interior View” Cartel’s Artisan Journal, Bendigo Fringe
2016 “Never Done”, Idiom 23 & Co. Lab Words and Art Bendigo Write on the Fringe
2016 “Straitjacket Blues” First Refuge: Poems on Social Justice
2012 “Still Life” exhibited as part of Co. Lab Words and Art Bendigo Write on the Fringe
2011 Windmills Mental Health, Slideshow
2010 MPU Regional Poet’s “Landlines” Poems: Crack, Funeral for an Exile.
2009 “Verification” Hecate
2007 “Missing” Tamba
2009 Painted Words Child Portrait
Radio Broadcasts
2006 Radio NAG Words and Music Gravy and Tragedy
2006 Radio Adelaide Writers and Writing Gravy and Tragedy
Anthologies
2008 Culture is… Walking Shoes (Wakefield Press)
2008 Growing up Asian in Australia Are you Different (Black Inc) pen name Mia Francis
