Lyn has been the recipient of the following writing and editing awards:
2025 Winner of a Katherine Susannah Pritchard Caruso Writer-in-Residence Fellowship
2024 Winner of the Arts SA Wakefield Press Unpublished Manuscript Award for the novel Salt upon the Water
2024 Shortlisted for a South Australian Literary Fellowship for Emerging Writers
2022 Awarded an Arts SA Grant for The Saltbush Review
2022 Winner of the Liminal x Writers SA Editorial Mentorship (Fiction)
2021 Winner of a 2021 Write It Fellowship with Penguin Random House Australia
2018 Research Training Program Award at the University of Adelaide
2018 Shortlisted for the Deborah Cass Prize
2017 Winner of an Asialink Arts Residency
2017 Participant in the WriteNow London scheme, selected by Penguin Random House UK
2017 Longlisted for the Lucy Cavendish College Cambridge Fiction Prize
2016 Highly Commended for the Chapter One Prize
2016 Longlisted for the Richell Prize for Emerging Writers
2015 Highly Commended for the Ray Koppe Young Writers’ Residency
2015 Shortlisted for the Writing a Novel Scholarship, Faber Academy Allen & Unwin
Lyn Dickens 