Appearances
Upcoming
Previous
2022
- Perth Festival Literature and Ideas Weekend
- City of Vincent Library Speaker Program
2021
- Perth Festival Literature and Ideas Weekend
- National Young Writers Festival
- Emerging Writers Festival
2020
- Speaker – Emerging Writers Festival
- Speaker – Perth Festival’s Literature and Ideas Weekends
- Tutor – AFTRS Community Engagement Program and The Edmund Rice Centre of Western Australia ‘Storytelling for Page, Stage and Screen’ workshops
2019
- Speaker – Sydney Writers Festival
- Speaker – Emerging Writers Festival
- Speaker – Perth Writer’s Festival
- Speaker – Perth International Arts Festival
- Speaker – Armadale Writer’s Festival
2018
- Speaker – Small is All: Practicing the Future, Digital Writers Festival
- Speaker – Learning to Fly, The Value of Mentoring, Australian Short Story Festival
- Speaker – The Best Book I (N)ever Read, National Young Writers Festival
- Speaker – Experimental and Genre Fiction, National Young Writers Festival
- Speaker – Why I Write, National Young Writers Festival
- Speaker – Floating Key Presents: Do Better Blues, National Young Writers Festival
- Speaker – Great Big Book Club Tea Party, Fremantle Press & City of Melville
- Panel Chair – The Menagerie of Imagination, Melbourne Writers Festival
- Speaker – A Better World Starts Here, Melbourne Writers Festival
- Speaker – Ownership of Our Narrative, Melbourne Writers Festival
- Host/MC – Closing Night Party: You Are There, Melbourne Writers Festival
- Tutor – Writing and Intersectionality Workshop, Writers Victoria
- Speaker – Literature as Reclamation, Emerging Writers Festival
- Panel Chair – ‘Beyond the veiled clichés the real lives of Arab Women with Amal Awad’; Perth Festival Writers Week
2017
- Poetry in Multiculturalism panel, Perth Poetry Festival
- Sydney Writers Festival Live and Local Panel, Mandurah Arts Centre
- Africa Day Panel, Centre for Stories
- Ways of Being Here launch panel, Perth Writer’s Festival
Awards
Winner
- 2018 – Bryant Stokes Matlida Award for Cultural Excellence (Literature)
- 2017 – Deborah Cass Prize for Writing
- 2016 – Margaret River Press Ways of Being Here Short Story Competition
Shortlist
- 2020 – The 2019 Western Australian Premier’s Writing Fellowship
- 2019 – The Dal Stivens Award for ‘Something Like Revolution’
- 2018 – Emerging Writers Festival Fellowship
- 2018 – Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowship
- 2018 – WA Youth Awards
Longlist
- 2021 – Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative (2023-2024 cycle)
- 2020 – Nommo Awards for African Speculative Fiction
- 2019 – Netflix/TriggerFish Animations ‘Mama K’s Team 4’ Screenwriting competition
- 2018 – The Next Chapter Fellowship