Prizes

2021

Shortlisted for the Future Places Poetry Prize.

Shortlisted for the Anne Brown Essay Prize.

Highly Commended in the Gutter x Edwin Morgan ‘All Things Are Possible’ Poetry Competition.

Highly Commended in the Charles Causley International Poetry Competition.

Third prize in the Cúirt New Writing Prize.

2020

Shortlisted for the Live Canon Poetry Pamphlet Competition for Platypus.

Shortlisted for the Retreat West First Chapter Competition for Brantwood.

2019

First prize in the Exeter Story Prize.

2018

Shortlisted for the Dinesh Allirajah Prize for Short Fiction.

2017

Brantwood shortlisted for the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize.

Longlisted for The Colm Tóibín Short Story Award.

2016

A Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award.

2015

The Bridge Award for an Emerging Writer from Moniack Mhor Creative Writing Centre.

Shortlisted for the Tricia Ashley Story Prize.

2014

Shortlisted for the Wells Festival of Literature Poetry Competition.

Commended in the William Soutar Writing Prize (fiction).

Third prize in the Writer’s Bureau Short Story Competition.

Commended in the Brittle Star Short Story Competition.

2013

Second prize in the Scottish Association of Writers Short Story Competition.

Shortlisted for the National Library of Scotland/Scottish Ballet Short Story Competition.

2012

Commended in the Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine.

Third prize in the Virginia Warbey Poetry Competition.

2011

Shortlisted for the William Soutar Writing Prize (poetry).

2010

First prize in the Ruth Rendell Short Story Competition.

2009

Shortlisted for an Eric Gregory Award.

2008

First prize in the Robert McLellan Poetry Award.