Life

Awards and nominations

• Commonwealth Writers Prize, South East Asia and South Pacific Region, Best First Book, 2006: The Patron Saint of Eels - shortlisted
• Australian Literature Society Gold Medal, 2006: The Patron Saint of Eels - winner
• New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards
  New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards
  The New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards were established in 1979 by the New South Wales Premier Neville Wran. Commenting on its purpose, Wran said: "We want the arts to take, and be seen to take, their proper place in our social priorities...
  
  , Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, 2008: Ron McCoy's Sea of Diamonds: A Novel - shortlisted
• Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize, 2011: "The Neighbour's Beans" - joint inaugural winner

Novels

• The Patron Saint of Eels (2005)
• Ron McCoy's Sea of Diamonds (2007)
• The Grand Hotel (2010)

Poetry

• Six Different Ways (1999) - with Kieran Carroll and Michael Farrell etc
• Trace (in collaboration with photographer Robert Ashton) (2003)

Music

• Untitled Red: No Evangelism (1992)
• Barroworn: Mangowak Days (1995)
• The Black Tower: Songs From The Poetry Of WB Yeats (1998)
• Trace soundtrack with Silver Ray (2003)
• The Flash Road: Scenes From The Building Of The Great Ocean Road (2005)

Interviews

• "The Age" http://www.theage.com.au/news/Books/What-ails-thee-eels/2005/04/21/1114028489507.html - 24 April 2005
• "ABC Radio National Book Show http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bookshow/stories/2008/2247096.htm - 21 May 2008
• "ABC Radio National Book Show http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bookshow/stories/2010/3043020.htm - 25 October 2010