SHINY AWARDY THINGS

My shiniest writing career moments include:

• The Truck Cat collecting some stickers in 2025: CBCA Notable (Picture Book) - (actually…stop press!), make that a CBCA Shortlist (Picture Book) as well as an ABIA Award Shortlist.

• Naturopolis collecting some stickers in 2023: CBCA Shortlist (New Illustrator) and Notable (Eve Pownall Award), as well as Gold in the international Nautilus Book Awards.

• Being shortlisted alongside some big kidlit names in the inaugural SCBWI/Larrikin House picture book manuscript competition.

• Winning first place in the 2022 CYA Competition for my super-silly manuscript, The Boy with the Hair (soon set to become a bona fide real book, Bolidlocks, through EK Books!).

• In 2020, I was awarded an Australian Society of Authors Award Mentorship.

• But it probably all started with that first time I ever got to read out my story to the class and realised that my words could make other people feel things. (How amazing!)