Awards
- 2020 The 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
- 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
