Charlotte Grimshaw received the Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship in 2000, is a double finalist and prize winner of the Sunday Star-Times short story competition, won the BNZ Katherine Mansfield Award in 2006, and in 2007 won publication in 'The Six Pack'. Her story collection 'Opportunity' was short listed for the 2007 Frank O'Connor International Prize, and won both the 2008 Montana Award for fiction and the Montana Medal. 'Singularity' was short listed for the 2009 Frank O'Connor International Prize and the South East Asia and Pacific section of the Commonwealth Writer's Prize.