Plaudits (Awards)

• The Dogs of Humanity - shortlisted for Best Poetry Pamphlet, Saboteur Awards 2020
• The Dogs of Humanity - nominated for Not The Forward Prize, 2019
• 'After Grenfell' - Runner Up, Aryamati Poetry Prize 2019
• Shortlisted - Erbacce Prize 2019
• Highly commended - Cobh Readers & Writers Poetry Competition 2019
• 'The Barber Who Never Cuts Hair' - Shortlisted for Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing 2019
• Longlisted - Best Reviewer of Literature, Saboteur Awards 2018
• 'Mix' - Shortlisted for Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing 2018
• Finalist - Princemere Poetry Prize 2017
• Shortlisted - Over The Edge New Writer of the Year Award 2017 - Poetry
• Longlisted - Over The Edge New Writer of the Year Award 2016 - Poetry
• ​Longlisted - Erbacce Prize 2016
• 'Missed Fight'​ - Longlisted for Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing 2016
• Arts Council Northern Ireland's Artist Career Enchancement Scheme (ACES) '15-'16
• 'A Fusion'  - winner of Glebe House Harmony Trust poetry competition 2015​ ('In Equal Measure' also shortlisted)
• Artists Career Enhancement Scheme (ACES) 2015-16, Arts Council Northern Ireland
• 'Light Source' - winner of Fun Palaces #WriteScience Poetry Competition 2015
• 'Mountaineering' shortlisted for Dermot Healy International Poetry Competition 2015
• 'Comet' - longlisted for Allingham Arts Festival Poetry Prize 2014
• 'Perhaps' - winner of Edit Red Writers' Choice Award for Poetry 2006