WINNER OF 1993 H M BUTTERFLY - F EARLE HOOPER AWARD.The English Association Sydney Branch.The University of Sydney.Sydney.New South Wales.Australia.
1995
HIGHLY COMMENDED IN THE RED EARTH POETRY (OPEN) CATEGORY.Northern Territory Literary Awards.Darwin.Northern Territory.Australia.
1996
PREMIER’S LITERARY PRIZE/C.J.Dennis Award.(Winner Les Murray. Shortlised Judy Beveridge and Peter Porter.William’s Mongrels in The Wild Life receives honorable mention along with books by John Kinsella and Anthony Lawrence).Melbourne. Victoria.Australia.
FESTIVAL OF THE WORD.(Broken Land chosen by Dorothy Porter as a best book for the year.)The Age.Sat 13th December.Melbourne.Victoria.Australia.
1997
Broken Land: 5 Days In Bre is Winner of the 1998 Victorian Premiers Literary Awards CJ.Dennis Prize for Poetry.Melbourne.Victoria.Australia.
1999
How Do Detectives Make Love? is shortlisted for the Queensland Minister for the Arts Poetry Prize.Brisbane.Queensland.Australia.
Broken Land is commended in the Poetry Book Club’s Seventh Selection.Poetry Book Club of Australia.Wollongong University.Wollongong.New South Wales.Australia.
2000
How Do Detectives Make Love? is shortlisted for the Adelaide Festival John Bray Poetry Award.Adelaide.South Australia.Australia.
Shortlisted Judith Wright Poetry Prize.2001.Queensland.Australia.