Grants and Awards

Member of ANZL Academy of New Zealand Literature

Michael King Writers Residency, Devonport Auckland, 2016

University of Otago Wallace Residency, Auckland, March-May, 2012

Winner of RNZ Media Award, for The Cave of Winds, 2012

Royal Literary Society Grant, UK. £6000 pa for three years, 2007

Award ONZM (Officer of the Order of New Zealand) for Services to Literature in Queen’s New Year Honours, 2006

Sarah Hosking Arts Trust Residency, UK. 2005-2006

Midland Arts Council Grant, UK. £4,600, 2005

Creative NZ Grant, $18,000, 2005

Writer’s Residency, Tasmania, July-August, 2004

Winner of the Elena Garro Short Story Competition (judged by International PEN) for an unpublished collection. November, 2003

Winner of Tall Poppy Theatre Company (NZ) Competition, for a two-hander stage play. (Three Degrees) November, 2003

Creative NZ Grant, $9000, 2000

Waikato University Writer-in-Residence, 1998

Finalist (River Lines) in The Orange Prize, (UK) April, 1996

Creative NZ Grant $9000, 1996

Burns Fellow at Otago University, 1995

Joint winner of Frank Sargeson Award, 1992

NZ Arts Council Grant, $9000, 1991