Awards
Book Length Publications
2023 Sing Dream Belong ~ A History of the Bendigo Youth Choir
2022 Ginninderra Press Bouquet of Traps
2018 Ginninderra Press The Hard Seed ~ A Novel
2014 Ginninderra Press Cleaning out the Closet ~ Short story collection
2013 Ginninderra Press Writing in Virginia’s Shadow ~ Short story collection
Chapbooks
2020 Rain and Shelter
2016 Fractures and Other Thin Confusions
Short fiction
2024 One Crowded Hour Overland
2023 A Garland of Endings Overland
2021 Falling in Love Again Meniscus
2021 Pruning / Inkling Incompleteness Book 11 Recent Work Press
2020 New Moon Homecoming The Incompleteness Book Recent Work Press
2020 Cleaning Out the Closet In Case of Emergency Press
2020 Perfect Day Other Terrain
2018 Waking Up Tamba
2018 Lizard Whipstick
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
2008 Walking Shoes Culture Is ... (Wakefield Press)
2008 Growing up Asian in Australia Are you Different (Black Inc) pen name Mia Francis
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
2024 Fishing Oyster Catcher One 5 Islands Press
2024 Dating Co.lab Exhibition, Write on the Fringe, Bendigo Writers Festival
2023 Injury/Magpies Rabbit Poetry
2023 Truth Telling Australia's Truth
2023 Fairy Tale of New York Stereo Stories
2023 Saturday Night Stereo Stories
2023 Gimme Shelter Stereo Stories
2023 Paths that Cross Stereo Stories
2020 Skin Hunger Mensicus
2020 Close to the Edge Other Terrain
2020 A Lover's Protest Poems of Dissent
2019 Missing In Case of Emergency Press
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 Child Portrait Painted Words
2008 Culture Is ... (Wakefield Press) Walking Shoes
2008 Growing up Asian in Australia Are you Different (Black Inc) pen name Mia Francis
Radio Broadcasts
2006 Radio NAG Words and Music Gravy and Tragedy
2006 Radio Adelaide Writers and Writing Gravy and Tragedy
- Short listed Women Writers Queensland Short Story Competition 2024
- Short listed Women Writers Queensland Short Story Competition 2023
- 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
- La Trobe University Adjunct Research Fellow 2025
- 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
2023 Sing Dream Belong ~ A History of the Bendigo Youth Choir
2022 Ginninderra Press Bouquet of Traps
2018 Ginninderra Press The Hard Seed ~ A Novel
2014 Ginninderra Press Cleaning out the Closet ~ Short story collection
2013 Ginninderra Press Writing in Virginia’s Shadow ~ Short story collection
Chapbooks
2020 Rain and Shelter
2016 Fractures and Other Thin Confusions
Short fiction
2024 One Crowded Hour Overland
2023 A Garland of Endings Overland
2021 Falling in Love Again Meniscus
2021 Pruning / Inkling Incompleteness Book 11 Recent Work Press
2020 New Moon Homecoming The Incompleteness Book Recent Work Press
2020 Cleaning Out the Closet In Case of Emergency Press
2020 Perfect Day Other Terrain
2018 Waking Up Tamba
2018 Lizard Whipstick
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
2008 Walking Shoes Culture Is ... (Wakefield Press)
2008 Growing up Asian in Australia Are you Different (Black Inc) pen name Mia Francis
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
2024 Fishing Oyster Catcher One 5 Islands Press
2024 Dating Co.lab Exhibition, Write on the Fringe, Bendigo Writers Festival
2023 Injury/Magpies Rabbit Poetry
2023 Truth Telling Australia's Truth
2023 Fairy Tale of New York Stereo Stories
2023 Saturday Night Stereo Stories
2023 Gimme Shelter Stereo Stories
2023 Paths that Cross Stereo Stories
2020 Skin Hunger Mensicus
2020 Close to the Edge Other Terrain
2020 A Lover's Protest Poems of Dissent
2019 Missing In Case of Emergency Press
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 Child Portrait Painted Words
2008 Culture Is ... (Wakefield Press) Walking Shoes
2008 Growing up Asian in Australia Are you Different (Black Inc) pen name Mia Francis
Radio Broadcasts
2006 Radio NAG Words and Music Gravy and Tragedy
2006 Radio Adelaide Writers and Writing Gravy and Tragedy
