​Awards

International Bram Stoker Award

• 2024 nominee for Superior Achievement in Poetry for Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud (The Cuba Press)

• 2023 nominee for Superior Achievement in Long Fiction for Despatches (PS Publishing)

• 2023 nominee for Superior Achievement in Long Non-Fiction for Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror, with Angela Yuriko Smith

• 2023 nominee for Superior Achievement in short Non-Fiction for "Displaced Spirits: Ghosts of the Diaspora" in Unquiet Spirits (Black Spot Books)

• 2022 WINNER for Superior Achievement in Short Non-Fiction for "I Don't Read Horror (& Other Weird Tales)" (Interstellar Flight Magazine)

• 2021 WINNER for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction for Permanent Damage in Attack from the 80s (Eugene Johnson ed.)

• 2021 WINNER for Tortured Willows: Bent, Bowed, Unbroken, with Angela Yuriko Smith, Geneve Flynn, and Christina Sng

• 2020 WINNER for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection for Grotesque: Monster Stories (Things in the Well)

• 2020 WINNER for Superior Achievement in an Anthology for Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women (Omnium Gatherum Media

• 2019 nominee for Superior Achievement in a Novel for Into the Ashes (Severed Press)

• 2018 nominee for Superior Achievement in an Anthology for Hellhole: An Anthology of Subterranean Terror

• 2018 nominee for Superior Achievement in a Short Story for Dead End Town in Cthulhu Deep Down Under II (Proposch, Sequeira and Stevens eds)

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Shirley Jackson Award

• 2020 WINNER for Best Anthology for Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women

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NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize

• 2023 WINNER for prose-poetry collection Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Society Doylean Honoree for Excellence in Fiction and Poetry

• 2024 Winner for "Maoriland Blue" in The Terror of Blue John Gap Project (Nancy Holder & Margie Deck editors)

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Foreword Indie Awards

• 2023 Finalist for Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror

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Book Fest Awards

• 2024 WINNER for Poetry Anthologies and Collections for Under Her Eye (Black Spot Books)

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Sir Julius Vogel Awards (shortlistings not listed)

• Best Collected Work for Remains to be Told Dark Tales of Aotearoa, 2023

• Best Novel for Into the Sounds, 2019

• Best Novel for Hounds of the Underworld with Dan Rabarts, 2018

• Best Novel for Into the Mist, 2017

• Best Collected Work for Te Korero Ahi Ka, with Grace Bridges and Aaron Compton, 2019

• Best Collected Work for At the Edge with Dan Rabarts, 2017

• Service to Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror, Lee Murray, 2017

• Best Short Story for The Thief’s Tale, 2016

• Best Short Story for Inside Ferndale, 2015

• Best Novella/Novelette for Cave Fever, in Regeneration, 2014

• Best Collected Work for Baby Teeth with Dan Rabarts, 2014

• Best Short Story for Hope is the Thing With Feathers 2013

• Best Youth Novel for Battle of the Birds, 2012

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Australasian Shadows Awards (shortlistings not listed)

• Best Poetry for Cheongsam in Tortured Willows: Bent, Bowed, Unbroken (Yuriko Publishing)

• Best Edited Work for Hellhole: An Anthology of Subterranean Horror, 2019

• Best Edited Work for Baby Teeth with Dan Rabarts, 2014

• Best Edited Work for Midnight Echo #15, 2020

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Skoutz Award for Horror Fiction, 2021 (Germany)

• Finalist for Beutezeit (German translation of Into the Mist)​

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British Fantasy Award, 2021

• Finalist for Best Anthology for Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women

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Aurealis Award, 2021

• Finalist for Best Anthology for Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women

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International Imadjinn Awards, 2021

• Finalist for Fiction Collection for Grotesque: Monster Stories

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Ladies of Horror Fiction Award, 2021

• Finalist for Best Short Story for Heart Music in Grotesque: Monster Stories

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Lit Retreat

• Editor of the Year 2021

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Poetry Awards​

• Elgin-nominated poet for Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud

• Elgin-nominated poet for Tortured Willows, 2021, 2nd-place winner

• Rhysling-nominated poet, short and long forms, 2021, for 'orchid moon', 'exquisite' and 'Interview with a Goddess'. Honorable Mention for 'exquisite', and  2022 for 'Status Transcript:'

• Pushcart-nominated poet, 2021

• Dwarf Star-nominated poet with Honorable Mention for 'fury'. 

• Ladies of Horror Fiction-nominated poet for Tortured Willows, 2021

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Fellowships

• Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship Finalist, 2016, Winner 2021

• Honorary Literary Fellow of the NZSA, 2020

• Beatson Fellowship Finalist 2020, 2024

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Juror / Literary Judge 

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World Fantasy Awards

NZPS International Poetry Award

NZCB New Voices of Aotearoa Award

New Zealand National Tauihu Short Story Awards

HWA Bram Stoker Awards / HWA Lifetime Achievement Awards / HWA Poetry Showcase

AHWA Australian Shadows Award / Robert Stephenson Short Story Award

NZSA Mentorships / CompleteMS / TEXT Publishing Prize / Lilian Ida Smith Award

Third Culture Film Festival Narrative Award

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