2023

• Highly Commended – Letterkenny Cathedral Quarter Literary Festival Poetry Competition.
• The Allingham Poetry Competition, 2023 — Shortlisted.

2022

• Winner —Roscommon New Writing Award 2022, Roscommon County Council.
• Awardee — Cill Rialaig Residency 2022, Irish Writers Centre, Arts Council Ireland, Arts Council Northern Ireland, Foras na Gaeilge.
• General Art Award, Support For The Individual Artist*.
• Course Bursary for the Irish Writers Centre*.
• Professional Membership of the Irish Writers Centre*.
• One-to-One Mentoring, Irish Writers Centre*.

2021

• Local Wonders Poetry Postcard Competition, Dedalus Press — Winner.
• Roscommon New Writing Award 2021, Roscommon County Council – Runner-Up.
• Trim Poetry Competition — Shortlisted.
• The Allingham Poetry Competition, 2021 — Shortlisted.
• National Poetry Competition, The Poetry Society — Longlisted.
• Mslexia Women’s Poetry Competition — Longlisted.
• Ninth Bangor Poetry Competition, The Bangor Literary Journal— Longlisted.
• Mono. Poetry Competition 2021, Mono. Literary Journal — Longlisted.
• Poetry Town Bursary 2021, Poetry Ireland.
• Course Bursary for the Irish Writers Centre*.
• Professional Membership of the Irish Writers Centre*.
• One-to-One Mentoring, Irish Writers Centre*.

2020

• Eighth Bangor Poetry Competition, The Bangor Literary Journal — Longlisted.
• Fish Publishing, Poetry Prize, Judge: Billy Collins — Longlisted.
• Forty Words Poetry Competition, The Bangor Literary Journal — Longlisted.
• Hedgehog Poetry Press — Borderlines from ‘Borderlines’ Stickleback — Pushcart Nomination.
• Travel Award, Support For The Individual Artist, trip to London Irish Centre*.
• Professional Membership of the Irish Writers Centre*.

2019

• Forty Words Poetry Competition, The Bangor Literary Journal — Third Prize.
• The Allingham Poetry Competition — Shortlisted. 
• Songs of Lenin and McCarthy, Hedgehog Poetry Press — Shortlisted. 
• Percy French Prize, Strokestown International Poetry Festival — Shortlisted.
• Seventh Bangor Poetry Competition, The Bangor Literary Journal — Longlisted.
• General Art Award, Support For The Individual Artist*.
• Professional Membership of the Irish Writers Centre*.
• Bursary, Tyrone Guthrie Centre**.

2018

• The Leitrim Guardian Literary Award for Poetry.
• Bailieborough Poetry Prize — Highly Commended.
• Sixth Bangor Poetry Competition, The Bangor Literary Journal — Highly Commended.
• Surprise Encounters: HeadStuff Poetry Competition  — Commended.
• The Forty Words Poetry Competition, The Bangor Literary Journal  — Commended.
• Aurivo /North West Words — Shortlisted.
• One-to-One Mentoring, Irish Writers Centre with Moyra Donaldson*.
• Bursary, John Hewitt International Summer School**.

2017

• The Leitrim Guardian Literary Award for Poetry.
• North West Words/Donegal Creameries — Shortlisted.

2016

• Bursary, John Hewitt International Summer School***. My first blog post is about surviving the Summer School in 2016.

2013

• Over the Edge ‘New Writer of the Year’ — Longlisted.

*    Funded by Arts Council of Northern Ireland & National Lottery Funds

**  Funded by Fermanagh & Omagh District Council.

 *** John Hewitt Society funded.