Awards

2008 Shoalhaven Literary Award. Highly Commended for ‘she ate her birthday cake for breakfast’

2008 Eastwood/Hills Regional FAW Award. Commended for ‘blank-page beginning’

2008 Manly-Peninsula FAW Literary Award. Highly Commended for ‘Woman at the Gallery’

2007 Manly and Peninsula FAW Poetry Competition. Second prize for ‘stung ‘

2007 NSW Writers Centre Poetry Competition. Second prize for ‘out a sushi window’

2007 Society of Women Writers NSW Poetry Competition. First place for ‘Arty Party 21’

2007 Manly and Peninsula FAW Poetry Competition. Second prize for ‘Ticket to the Spirit’
Highly Commended for ‘Fabrication’ and ‘coastal’

2007 NSW Women Writers Short Story Competition. Commended for The Rainbow Ribcage

2006 Henry Kendall Poetry Award. Commended for ‘mood cumulus’

2004 Midlands Literary Competition. Highly commended for ‘Nana’s Blue Dress’

2004 FAW Jean Stone Competition. Commended for Suite – ‘Plants at Anchor’

Publications

Ratfax and set for life in Unusual Work, 7, (2008). collective effort press, Melbourne.

coastal in Famous Feporter, 36, (Feb 2008). Walleah Press, Tasmania.

coastal in Famous Reporter, 36, (online) http://walleahpress.com.au/FR36Ruckert.html [accessed Sep 4, 2008]

water has no selfish in The Tasmanian Times. (online) tasmaniantimes.com [accessed 4 Sept 2008]

Lake Horizons and Addressing the Dresser in freeXpression. Vol XV Issue 8 (2008). Pike P. (ed).

Bring the Prisoner Some Coffee in Positive Words. (2008). James S.L. (ed.). Tralralgon, Vic.

A Capital Letter in Capital Letters. Produced for the ACT Writers Festival (2008). Boris Books

The Lunchbox Review and is there more to worry than lunch in Cordite (online) (2008).
http://www.cordite.org.au/?p=1370 [accessed 1 Sept 2008]

off limits and whinge in The Mozzie, Vol 15, (2007)

Nana’s Blue Dress in I Remember When Vol 2 (2007). Legacy Books

Arty Party 21+ in Images Society of Women Writers NSW Newsletter Sydney, 2007

4 Servings of Blue in The Poetry Project, WEA, (2007) Sydney

red chair in the library and poetry workshop with J. and Shock of Heads in Expressions, (2007). Hurstville City Council, ISBN 0 975698923

chapter 3 on The Cabal http://www.users.bigpond.com/carneyvaughan/grpstory.htm, 2007

Lamington - a Dry-Land Ecology in Best Poems of Jan, 2006 Anthology of 2006 Wollongong Poetry Workshop, Five Islands Press, University of Melbourne, Vic

mood cumulus in mood cumulus, Anthology of Central Coast Poets, (2006)

what part icles in unsweetened, UNSW, (2006) Kensington, NSW, ISSN 1441-14151

plants at anchor and backyard yarn in yellow moon, 20, (2006).

artist parking on a curve and “perverse parking” by local artist in
www.greendoorpublishing.com (2006). Mackay F.

Villains in Costume in Blue Dog Australian Poetry vol 4, no 8, (2005). Poetry Australia Foundation, University of Melbourne, Vic.

torso in Linq Vol 32, 2, (2005). James Cook University

(No) Light on the Subject and Street Theatre in My Cat Cannot Have Friends in Australia, (2004).
Five Islands Press, University of Melbourne, Vic.

Our Pizza of the Day has Bio-Topping in Hecate Birthday Edition (2004). UQP, St Lucia, Qld

Dianne, Sky to Earth Mother, No Predictions in First Breath Malnar V. (ed.). (2004). Ana Key Media, Petersham, NSW

Home Sweat Home in http://leswicks.tripod.com/apc.htm (online) (2003).

Three poems in Animals Bankstown FAW 2003

The Edward Davis’ Story in Stories I Could Tell, (2003). Hurstville Council

Poems and a short story in Grab This Bankstown FAW 1999

Public sector infectors in Education, 1996

Another billiards win in petite.morte, (on-line) (1996)

Poems and short story in Bankstown The Book Bankstown FAW 1995

Casuarina: Political Conniver in Hecate (1996). UQP, St Lucia, Qld.

Throbbing Hourly News in Womanspeak (1994).

Sidewalk Soliloquy in Western Galaxy FreeXpresSion (1994).

mio on Australian Made Poetry (half-hour radio recording), 2NCBFM D. Meddows (1994).