grants and awards

Francesca has helped to secure over $1million in competitive grant funding while working with lots of other colleagues and wonderful creatives in multiple collaborations. She has received writers fellowships and her books have won and been shortlisted for national awards.

2022 | Inaugural John Rowe Writers-in-Residence with Quinn Eades, University of Sydney

2021–2025 | Connecting Asia-Pacific Literary Cultures: Grounds, Encounter and Exchange, ARC Discovery Project DP210102478 | $367,341

2020–2022 | SingLit Station, Singapore | WrICE $135,000

2019 | Scribe & Varuna Fellowship Award

2019 | Nominated US Pushcart Prize, ‘Towards skin’

2017 | DISRUPT, Melbourne Knowledge Week, City of Melbourne | $3,000

2017 | Shortlisted for the Filipino 37th National Book Awards for PRESS: 100 Love Letters

2017–2018 | WrICE (Phase 2), Copyright Agency Asia-Pacific Partnership, Copyright Agency Cultural Fund | $75,000

2016–2017 | NAVA Australia Council, Australian Artists Grant, No Notes (this is writing) | $1,000

2016–2017 | New Colombo Plan Intercultural Collaborative Creative Writing Studio, Study Tour to China | $59,400

2016–2017 | City of Melbourne Women Writers in the City | $17,000

2015 | Outstanding Field: Artistic Research Emerging from the Academy at the VCA

2014–2017 | Copyright Agency Asia-Pacific Partnership, Copyright Agency Cultural Fund | $225,000

2014 | Writing Fellowship, Tyrone Guthrie Arts Centre, Ireland

2013–2014 | Copyright Agency Asia-Pacific Partnership, Copyright Agency Cultural Fund | $50,000

2013 | International Nonfiction Writers Fellowship, School of English and Philosophy, University of Iowa, Iowa, supported by Copyright Australia and University of Wollongong

2012 | Shortlisted for the 2012 Colin Roderick Literary Award for Bite Your Tongue

2011–2013 | StoriesNOW, Copyright Agency Cultural Fund | $100,000

2010 | Writers-in-residence, Copyright Agency | $90,000

2009 | Examiners’ Commendation for Outstanding Thesis, University of Wollongong

2006–2007 | Joint Artists Residency: Schloss Haldenstein, Switzerland, with the artist/cartoonist Judy Horacek, School of Art, ANU and Canton of Graubunden

1999 | The Secret Life of Canberra, FoCA99, Myer Foundation

1999 | Writing for Theatre Project with BITS Theatre Co and The Company, artsACT

1997 | Professional Development Grant, Melbourne Writers Festival, Monstalvat, ArtsACT

1996 | ACT Book of the Year for Imago

1996 | ACDU: Under $10,000 Category, Round 1, New Writers Fellowship at Varuna | $10,000

1995 | ANUTech Reporter Short Story Award, ‘Swimming breaststroke with pink plastic fish’ ‘Swimming breaststroke again with pink plastic fish’ | $2,500