:: awards


2004 Cathay Pacific Media Awards NZ Travel Writer of the Year for 'The New Capital of Europe', judged by Glenn A. Baker, Australia

2002/2003 Creative New Zealand Berlin Writer's Residency

2002 Landfall NZ Essay Competition, co-winner with 'We Too Are Europe'

2002 Cathay Pacific Media Awards NZ Travel Writer of the Year for 'Dancing Queens', judged by Lyn Hughes, editor Wanderlust UK

2000 Reconnaissance winner of Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book in South-East Asia-Pacific region

1999 Buddle-Findlay Sargeson Literary Fellow, Auckland

1999 Reconnaissance short-listed for Montana Book Awards Deutz Medal for Best Book of Fiction

1998 All roads lead to the sea Best First Book of Poetry, Montana Book Awards

1996 First prize in NZ Poetry Society International Competition

1995 Scholarship in Francophone civilisation, Université Française du Pacifique, Tahiti


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