This year, my poem “Olive Tree at Beit Hanoun” won  the “In Memoriam Award – Honouring the long-term impacts of trauma” in the 2025 Grieve Poetry Competition hosted by Hunter Writers Centre.

You can easily find background on Beit Hanoun and understand why I wrote the poem. The opportunity to express grief that the Grieve Competition provides is valuable. There were many very moving poems in the shortlist. They, along with mine, will be published in the Grieve Anthology.

The list of winners can be found here: https://hunterwriterscentre.org/2025-grieve/

Another poem, “Six Hundred Stars”, was shortlisted in the Australian Catholic University Poetry Prize and is published in the 2025 anthology. Belonging. Again, I feel honoured to be in the company of many fine established poets and emerging ones as well.