CB Mako || cubbie is currently one of the violists of the newly-formed community orchestra, Inner West Symphony Orchestra. Inaugural concert is on 21 April 2024. Grab your tickets HERE!
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First Prize winner (non-fiction) – Grace Marion Wilson Emerging Writers Competition
Highly Commended – Writers Victoria Writeability Fellowship
Shortlisted – Overland Fair Australia Prize
Shortlisted – Queensland Literary Awards – QUT Digital Literature Award
Shortlisted & Highly Commended – Lord Mayor’s Creative Writing Award– Self-Told Stories by Writers Living with a Disability
Longlisted – Inaugural Liminal Fiction Prize (Anthology via Pantera Press, November 2020) – NOW AVAILABLE!
Contributor, Growing Up Disabled in Australia (Anthology via Black Inc Books, February 2021) – NOW AVAILABLE – GRAB YOUR COPY HERE!
Contributor, Resilience (Anthology via Ultimo Press, November 2022) – Now Available. Grab your copy HERE
Recipient, VicArts 2021 arts grant (auspiced under Arts Access Victoria)
Recipient, City of Melbourne 2021 arts grant (auspiced under Arts Access Victoria)
Recipient, inaugural Maribyrnong Found Works Arts Grant 2022 (auspiced under Auspicious Arts Projects)
- 28 September 2022, panelist, Storytelling, Arts Access Australia #TheWritingPlace2022
- 23 March 2022, panelist, Growing Up Disabled in Australia, Brimbank Writers & Readers Festival 2022
- 10 November 2021, panelist, Alter State : ‘The Musuem of Us : Telling It Like It Is’
- 3 August 2021, contributor, The Museum of Us – Inclusion , Together Victoria x Arts Access Victoria
- 27 March 2021, panelist with Disabled QBIPOC Collective, #DisabilitySoWhite, Midsumma Pathways
- 23 June 2020 – panelist, ‘What Can We Learn from Mutual Aid In Covid-19’ (Breakout session 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM AEST), Virtual Progress 2020
- 27 November 2019 – panelist, ‘Leading the Charge: Climate Change, Disability and Storytelling‘, The Wheeler Centre
- 24 October 2019, – panelist, ‘Beyond Access’, Provocations and Postcards from the Future, Future Echoes Festival (Transcription available here)
- 1 September 2019 – Artist, ‘YA’ll Are Thirsty: Romantic FanFic Showcase’ Melbourne Writers Festival.
- 29 November 2018 – ‘Press Gallery’, Melbourne’s 10th year anniversary celebration as UNESCO City of Literature.
- 2 November 2018 – Artist, ‘Chronic Illness, Disability and Digital Life‘, Digital Writers Festival
- 29 October 2018 – Panelist, ‘Inclusion’. Australian Walking and Cycling Conference, Bendigo
- 18 October 2018 – Poet, #NIDAnights x The Suburban Review Issue 12 Launch ‘Iteration’
- 25 August 2018 – Artist, ‘West Writers: In Parallel Universes’ Melbourne Writers Festival
- 27 June 2018 – Artist, ‘Reading the Suburbs’ Emerging Writers Festival
- 3 November 2017 – Panelist, ‘Representation in FanFic’, Digital Writers Festival
- 21 September 2017 – Artist, ‘Sidekicked’, Melbourne Fringe
- July to September 2017 – Audience Advocate, Melbourne Writers Festival
- 18 June 2017 – panelist, ‘Fan Fiction’ – Emerging Writers Festival
- 23 September 2016 – featured in ‘The Making of Artists: Stories from Arts Learning‘ Footscray Community Arts Centre website news
- 03 September 2016 – shared a piece from the memoir workshop at Melbourne Writers Festival’s ‘Storytelling at The Dock’
- 21 June 2016 – panelist, ‘Late Night Lit: Fandom’ – Emerging Writers Festival
- January 2016 – won one of ten spots for ‘Art of Storytelling’ six memoir writing workshops mentored by Lee Kofman
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