Fiction

• Longlisted, Bath Short Story Prize 2024

• Winner, Felix Meyer Award 2005 - for the manuscript-in-progess, City of Lost Feet. Mary Fisher Meyer Foundation, Melbourne.

• Varuna New Writer’s Fellowship 2003 - for the manuscript-in-progress, Dear Circus Aerialist. Eleanor Dark Foundation, NSW.

Non-Fiction

• ABS Past President’s Bronze Book Award 2013 for Negotiating Afropolitanism (Rodopi 2011)

• ARC CHE Visiting Research Fellow 2015, University of Melbourne

• British Academy Visiting Research Fellow 2010, Birkbeck College, University of London