Awards / Shortlisted / Commendations

FICTION

• 2025 Longlisted, CAP Award, for “LeafLight Moon ” (winners announced 10/10/25)
• 2024 Honorary Mention, Fish Short Story Prize
• 2021 Winner, University of Kent Fiction Prize
• 2021 Winner, Myslexia Flash Challenge
• 2021 Shortlisted, Fish Flash Fiction Prize
• 2018 Longlisted, Quantum Shorts
• 2017 Commended, Michael McLaverty Short Story Competiton
• 2015 Co-winner, Irish Times / Africa Day Writing Competition
• 2013 Shortlisted, Merriman Short Story Award
• 2013 Shortlisted, Hennessy Emerging Fiction

POETRY

• 2020 Winner, Leitrim Guardian Poetry Prize
• 2018 Second Place, Leitrim Guardian Poetry Competition
• 2016 Commended, Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine
• 2015 Finalist, Pat Schneider Poetry Competition
• 2015 Commended, Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine
• 2014 Winner, North-West Words Poetry Prize
• 2013 Shortlisted, North-West Words Poetry Prize
• 2012 Shortlisted, Hennessy Emerging Poetry
• 2010 Shortlisted, Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award
• 2009 Featured Poet, The Stinging Fly
• 1998 Longlisted, National Women’s Poetry Award

Bursaries / Residencies

• 2021, 2016, 2013, 2011, 2009 Leitrim Arts Office Bursary
• 2014 SPARK Writer in Residence at the Leitrim Observer
• 2010, 2013  Arts and Disability Ireland Bursary
• 2009 Arts Council Literature Bursary