When We Fall - Shortlisted for Best Crime Fiction Davitt Awards and Ned Kelly Awards 2023

Second Sight - Highly Commended Davitt Awards 2019

All These Perfect Strangers - long listed for Australian Book Industry General Fiction Book of the Year 2017 & Voss Literary Prize 2017

Kill-Dead-Garten – Winner of the Scarlet Stiletto in 2007 

Smoke – Runners up of Scarlet Stiletto in 2009

Summer of the Seventeen Poll – Winner of S.D.Harvey Award, Winner of the Sisters in Crime Funniest Crime Prize and runners up in Body in the Library Prize in 2012

A Watched Pot - Shortlisted for the S.D.Harvey Award in 2015

Other short story prizes include Funniest Crime Prize in 2008 for Wax, Kerry Greenwood Malice Domestic Prize in 2009 for Havana, runners up in The Body in the Library Prize 2013 for The Case of the Vanishing Husband.

Aoife was shortlisted for the UK Crime Association’s Debut Dagger in 2008 for My First Big Book of Murder. 

In 2013 she received a mentorship from the Australian Society of Authors for her novel All These Perfect Strangers

In 2016 her story An Everyday disaster was published with Angela Savage's The Odds in Review of Australian Fiction (click on image for information on how to subscribe). 

Her short fiction has been published in Australia, United Kingdom and the United States appearing in such publications as  Kill Your Darlings and Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine (U.S).