Awards
- 2005 - New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction for The Idea of Home: Autobiographical Essays
- 2005 - shortlisted for the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Community Relations Commission Award for The Idea of Home: Autobiographical Essays
- 2006 - National Biography Award for The Idea of Home: Autobiographical Essays
- 2006 - inducted into the City of Cessnock Hall of Fame
- 2008 - Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, Australian Short Story Collection - Arts Queensland Steele Rudd Award for Someone Else
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