 When I won the prize, I thought that I was dreaming because I didn't... I can't talk about that without feeling really emotional. I think winning the prize has been the single biggest encouragement in my professional life. The Writers Award is completely different from all other literary awards because most literary awards give prizes for work that already exists, whereas the Writers Award invests in writers as writers and gives them the funding and the support to then go off and create work that doesn't exist yet and then provide support after they're finished in allowing that work to reach a wide audience. One of the best things about the award has been having access to the support of the Echocentre team and being able to talk to them about the research I'm doing and ask questions about the areas in which they are very knowledgeable which I might not know so much about and getting that personal support and having access to that community.