On August 8th 2024, I was lucky enough to receive the Greg Crombie Postgraduate Work of the Year Award at Curtin University for my essay "Pardoned to Serve His Majesty by Sea": the life of George Briggs. The essay was earlier published in the Van Diemen Land Anthology 2023, but now it appears as an appendix to my recently-released novel, Diemens. The award honours of the life of school teacher Greg Crombie, who was tragically killed by lightning in 2008.
