Awards

• 2021 Winner, University of Kent Fiction Prize
• 2021 Winner, #91 Myslexia Flash Challenge
• 2020 Winner, Leitrim Guardian Poetry Prize
• 2015 Co-winner, Irish Times /Africa Day Writing Competition
• 2014 Winner, North-West Words / Donegal Creameries Poetry Prize
• 2014 SPARK Writer in Residence at the Leitrim Observer
• 2013 Leitrim Arts Office Writing Bursary
• 2013 Arts and Disability Ireland Writing and Mentoring Award
• 2011 Leitrim Arts Office Publication Bursary
• 2010 Arts and Disability Ireland Poetry Award
• 2009 Arts Council Literature Bursary
• 2009, 2013 and 2016 Leitrim Arts Office Writing Bursary

Commendations

• 2021 Shortlisted, Fish Flash Fiction Prize
• 2018 Longlisted, Quantum Shorts, for quantum-inspired flash fiction
• 2018 Second Place, Leitrim Guardian Poetry Competition
• 2017 Commended, Michael McLaverty Short Story Competiton
• 2016 Commended, Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine
• 2015 Finalist, Pat Schneider Poetry Competition
• 2015 Commended, Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine
• 2013 Shortlisted, Hennessy Emerging Fiction
• 2013 Shortlisted, Merriman Short Story Award
• 2013 Shortlisted, North-West Words Poetry Prize
• 2012 Shortlisted, Hennessy Emerging Poetry
• 2010 Shortlisted, Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award
• 1998 Shortlisted, National Women’s Poetry Award