The Fish Council awarded a New Work Grant from the Literature Board of the Australia Council 2012
Stitching Things Together commended in Anne Elder Award 2011
Billilla Studio/Bayside Council Writer-in-Residence Award 2010-2011
State Library of Victoria Creative Fellowship 2010 - $12,500 grant for research for creative non-fiction book The Fish Council
CAL Cultural Trust Development Fund - $3,000 to attend MFA (Fiction) Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpellier, Vermont USA 2010-11
Summer Literary Seminars Competition 2010 – merit scholarship award
Glenfern Studio Residency 2010 – awarded by Grace Marion Wilson Trust & Victorian Writers’ Centre
Highly Commended IP Picks Poetry Competition 2010
2nd place winner Angelo B. Natoli short story award 2010 (Fellowship of Australian Writers) for The Cat Feeders
Accepted to MFA program (Fiction) at Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpellier, USA 2010.
CAL/Scribe Fiction Award 2009, The Waiting Room long listed
Penguin/Varuna Development Scholarship 2009, The Waiting Room nominated
Varuna Publishers Award 2009 shortlisted for The Waiting Room
Café Poet in Residence 2009-2010, Australian Poetry Centre (Café Loco, Elsternwick)
Writing@Rosebank Residential Writing Fellowship 2010 (Victorian Writers’ Centre)
selected for Iowa Summer Writers’ Graduate Workshop 2009 – with director Lan Samantha Chang
Grace Marion Wilson Trust - Fiction Masterclass with Antoni Jach 2009
Writer in Residence Shaindy Rudoff Graduate School in Creative Writing 2008
Creation Grant – Arts Victoria 2008 for development of final draft of novel The Waiting Room
Emerging Writers’ Grant – Literature Board of Australia, 2008 for development of final draft of novel
Max Harris Poetry Awards 2008 - commended
John Shaw Neilson Poetry Award 2007 – Second Place (FAW national literary awards)
Winner Eleanor Dark Flagship Fellowship for Fiction – Varuna 2007
Victorian Ministry of the Arts: Writers’ Project Grant 1989 – for work on novel
Shortlisted for ASA Mentorship programme 2007 (top 10 fiction writers out of 500 total applicants)
Runner-up of Reading’s Fellowship –Writers’ Studio at Glenfern Writers’ Centre, Melbourne Oct 2006 - June 2007
Winner AUJS Short Story Competition 1981 Down Will Come Baby
Children’s Storybook MS There’s an Elephant in my Ear commissioned by Collins Dove 1990
Children’s Storybook MS The Boat that Grew Legs commissioned by the Children’s Television Foundation for development into animation and book for TV series ‘Round the Twist’ 1989
Mothers of War - shortlisted in The International Shin Shalom Peace Poem Competition, Israel 1992
(Aus)chwitz to (Aus)tralia in The Tin Wash Dish , ed John Tranter, 1989 (poem short listed in ABC/ABA Literary Awards Competition)
Writer,M.D. - edited by Leah Kaminsky - Vintage Knopf USA 2012
Stitching Things Together – collection of poetry. Interactive Press, 2010
Pen & Stethoscope – Editor of anthology of prominent physician-writers, Scribe Publications, November 2010.
Your Child’s Health – currently in its 4th edition (coauthor Prof Frank Oberklaid) Hardie Grant, 2006 (Extensive media reviews) (1st edition 1993)
ABC Guide to Poisons - Houghton Mifflin, 1991
Spilt Milk - RMIT 1988 ed Judith Rodriguez & Antoni Jach (poetry chapbook)
General Practice Psychiatry – Chapter 19 Managing Grief and Loss. McGraw-Hill Publishers, 2007
Metamorphosis & Reality’s a Concept in Melbourne Chronicle ed Arnold Zable 1982
(Aus)chwitz to (Aus)tralia in The Tin Wash Dish , ed John Tranter, 1989 (poem short listed in ABC/ABA Literary Awards Competition)
Crabholes in the Sand & Spilled Milk in Fine Line #6 ed Bev Roberts 1989
Counting Sheep in No Overalls Required 1989
Mothers of War in Poetry Australia #129, ed John Millet 1991
Hotel Belle, Hayarkon Street, Tel Aviv in Poetry Australia #132 ed John Millet 1991
Mothers of War shortlisted in The International Shin Shalom Peace Poem Competition, Israel 1992
A Poem for Alon on His Eighth Birthday & Eucalyptus Dreaming in Divan #4 2001 ed Earl Livings #4 2001
Eucalyptus Dreaming in Anthology ‘Forever Eve’, NCJW. 2002
The Turtle Comes Up for Air & Letter to William Carlos Williams in Quadrant Magazine ed Les Murray 2007
My Father Crosses Acland Street, 1987 - John Shaw Neilson Poetry Award 2007 – Second Place (Federation of Australian Writers national literary awards)
also published in prizewinners anthology The Envelope Please, 2007
Here and There, 1991 Cordite Review 2008
Stitching Things Together - Max Harris Poetry Awards 2008 – commended
Mr Potato Head & the Middle East Crisis – poem of the month January 2010, Australian Poetry Centre website
Stitching Things Together – February 2010, Up the Staircase Literary Review, USA
Still Life with Children forthcoming December 2010, Antipodes USA
How to Lumbar Puncture a Child forthcoming CHEST, Pectoriloquy, USA 2010
Days of Usefulness forthcoming Islet magazine, 2010
Dealing the Cards & Shivering Wings of a Bee forthcoming Divan 2010
Stitching Things Together selected for Varuna-Picaro Anthology 2010
Down Will Come Baby in Kivun Vol III #4 1981 (Winner in Australian Union of Jewish Students short story competition)
Left or Right in Australian Jewish News Vol 54 #42, 8/4/1988
Stirring the Soup in Fine Line #5 ed Helen Garlick 1989
Primary Colours in Mattoid #35 ed Brian Edwards 1989
Barefoot to Goondiwindi in Australian Jewish News 13/10/1989
Breast Stroke in Voices ed Elizabeth Jolley 1992
In The Slow Lane in Melbourne Chronicle #64 ed Serge Liberman 1994
Please Gawd filmed and presented at Hamer Hall, Melbourne Arts Centre 23/4/2007
Vacant Possession – commissioned by Linden Gallery, (catalogue for Phobia Exhibition) 2009
Silent Night in Scribblers on the Roof, USA 2009
Tahirih in Transnational Literature, Volume 2, Issue 1, November 2009
(http://dspace.flinders.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/2328/7939/1/Tahirih.pdf)
The Griffith Review May 2012 'The Fish Council'
The Griffith Review 2011 'Tunnel Vision of the Soul'
Approximately 300 feature articles published between 1988-2007 in various newspapers and magazines including The Age, The Australian Jewish News, Follow Me magazine, Australian Doctor. Feature writer for The Age newspaper 1988-1991. Major pieces include:
Learning to Float in Follow Me April 1988
Wand of Light in The Age 14/12/1988
AIDS: a secular and religious view in Australian Jewish News 1/1/1989
The Survivor’s Children in Australian Jewish news 3/2/1989
The Body Clock - Cover story in Tempo, The Age 19/4/1989
Stopping Kidney Disease in The Age 7/6/1989
Peanut Butter and other Perils of Telecommuting in The Age 26/7/1989
Folklore, Fads, Join on Road to Health in The Age 2/8/1989
Babies with Feelings in The Age 9/8/1989
Return to Poland in Australian Jewish News ed Sam Lipski 16/3/1990 – 4000 word personal piece about traveling back to my parents’ birthplace and the concentration camps in which my mother was interred during WWII
Pravda is Stranger than Fiction in Australian Jewish News1991
A Land of Milk, Blood & Tears in The Age March 2002 – piece about living in Israel during the intifada.
Saint or Sinner interview Tom Keneally, Australian Jewish News 2008
Interview with Ethan Canin, Australian Jewish News August 2009
Health Matters in Primary Education Journal 1989-1992
Matters of the Heart in The Australian Jewish News 2006-2009
On The Spot Poet – Jennie Fraine in The Age 15/11/1989
Patients who paint to live – Dr Eric Cunningham-Dax in The Age 25/10/1989
Buoyant Bergner – Interview with Yosl Bergner in Australian Jewish News 19/10/1990
Interrogator of Reality – Interview with David Grossman in Australian Jewish News
8/3/1991
GP Research in Australian Doctor 11/2005
AIDS & its metaphors by Susan Sontag in Australian Medicine 2/10/1989
See Under Love by David Grossman in Australian Jewish News, July 1990
Short Story Shapes– Spoleto Fringe Festival 4/9/1988
Poems – Linden Gallery 8/9/1988
Poet’s Union – several readings 1988-1990
Poems from Spilt Milk – Visible Inc (RMIT) 1989
Environmental Arts Exhibition opening Poem – Warsaw Grey 11/12/1989
Interview 3AK Re research trip to Poland for novel 12/1989
Short Story The Butcher’s Shop at Jewish Writer’s Festival 6/5/1990
Interview 3ZZZ Re research trip to Poland for novel 6/1990
La Mama Poetica reading with Rosemarie Nissen & Jennie Fraine 12/11/1990
National Poetry Festival (Montsalvat) with Rosemarie Nissen & Jennie Fraine March 1991
Hawthorn Readings 24/6/1991
Writer’s Live 3/9/1991
Many readings at various venues in Israel 1992-2002
Molly Bloom’s Readings (FAW) April 2002
Sydney Jewish Writers’ Festival 2008 – on panel with Arnold Zable & Diane Armstrong
Tmol Shilshom reading with Evan Fallenberg. 31/12/2008. Jerusalem.
Tashmadada’s Director’s Cut – Café Loco & ACMI lounge, 2009
Baby Black Café, 20/12/2009 poetry reading with Jennie Fraine
Storytelling at the Dog’s Bar St Kilda June 17th 2010
Doctor's Who Workshop at Varuna March 10th 2012 cofacilitator with Dr Hilton Koppe
New York University Summer Writers’ Conference 1987
RACGP Women’s Conference 23/4/2006 – I ran a weekend creative writing workshop for doctors
Advanced Poetry Workshop with Les Murray at the Victorian Writer’s Centre 29/3/2007
Grace Marion Wilson Masterclass 2009 for published writers, headed by writer and teacher Antoni Jach
Panel Chair – Melbourne Writers’ Festival August 2009. Pen vs Stethoscope , with panelists Ethan Canin, Peter Goldsworty and Jacinta Halloran (physician-writers)
Organised visit of Robin Hemley to Varuna and Victorian Writeres’ Centre for creative non-fiction masterclass and workshop December 2009
Organised evening Lee Gutkind in Conversation with Peter Bishop at Glenfern Writers’ Centre June 2010 (Tashmadada in conjunction with VWC)
Writing and the Body workshop – Victorian Writers’ Centre forthcoming 4/12/2010
Member of WIGS – together with poets Jennie Fraine & Rosemarie Nissen (1988- 2000)
Interview by Dr Grant Blashki for RACGP for video Men & Suicide
Please Gawd -short film by director Deborah Leiser Moore and filmmaker Guy Dvir Ovadia of writer presenting her short story. Screened at Victorian Arts Centre, 23/4/2007
