Writing and Publishing Awards for Futures Trading, 2010. 2006 – Winner of Queensland Premier’s Award for A Funny Thing Happened at 27,000 Feet (Steele Rudd Award for a collection of short fiction). 2004 – Short-listed for a Queensland Premier's Award for the Princess of Cups (Steele Rudd Award for a collection of short fiction). 2000 – Second Prize in the Age Short Story Contest. 2000 – Second Prize in the University of Canberra Short Story contest. 2000 – Nominated for ACT Artist of the Year. 1999 – ACT Book of the Year Award for Unwritten Histories, 1998. 1999 – Highly commended in the Victorian Fellowship of Australian Writers Jim Hamilton Award. 1998 – First Prize in the Max Harris Literary Awards. 1998 – First Prize in the Arts West Writing Competition. 1998 – Second Prize in the Not the Premier's Literary Award. 1998 – Second Prize in the R Carson Gold Short Story Competition. 1998 – Shortlisted for the ANU/Anutech short story award. 1997 – Canberra Critics Circle award for literature. 1995 – Shortlisted for the ANU/Anutech short story award. 1996 – Highly commended in the National Book Council Award. 1993 – Shortlisted for the Australian-Vogel Award for Of One Blood. Works Books published Archangel, Merino Press, . The Twilight of the Time Vandals, Merino Press, . What If History of Australia: Gold Rush: Going Gold Crazy, Big Sky Publishing, . What If History of Australia: Colonial Settlement: France vs Britain, Big Sky Publishing, . The Cruise to the End of the World, Merino Press, . On A Barbarous Coast(with Harold Ludwick), Allen and Unwin, 2020. . The Science of Communicating Science, CSIRO Publishing, 2019. . Years of the Wolf, IFWG Australia, 2018. . (Shortlisted for an Aurealis Award for Best Horror Book). Backseat Drivers, Ginninderra Press, 2018. . (Shortlisted for a Victorian Community History Award). The Seven Voyages of Captain Cook, Dimension 6, coeur de lion, 2017. . (Shortlisted for a 2017 Aurealis Award - Best Anthology). Valdur the Viking and the Ghostly Goths, Ford Street Publishing, 2016. . The Floating City, Angry Robot Books, 2015. . Ned Kelly Under the Microscope, CSIRO Publishing, 2014. (Winner of a Victorian Community History Award, 2015) . The Shadow Master, Angry Robot Books, 2014. . Uncle Adolf, Ginninderra Press, 2014. (Winner of an ACT Publishing Award, 2015). . Benji the Buccaneer (Children's book), New Frontier, 2014. . Time Vandals, Scholastic Australia, 2012.