AWARDS
- Joint winner Geoff Stevens Memorial Poetry Prize 2020
- Hippocrates Poetry Award Commendation 2018
- Northern Writer New Fiction Bursary 2016
- Edgehill Prize Longlist 2015
- Frank O’Connor Prize Longlist 2015
- Luke Bitmead Novel Award shortlist 2012
- Edgehill Prize longlist 2012
- Read Regional Recommendation 2011
- Northern Writer Award 2010
- Cinnamon Press novel Award shortlist 2010
- Winner Mslexia short story competition 2009
- Residential Prize winner Biscuit Publishing 2007
- Northern Promise Award 2004
- Novel shortlisted Lit Idol national competition 2004
PROJECTS
- Writing mentor for New Writing North Cuckoo project 2013
- Art’s council representative Toronto short story conference 2010
- National Short Story Day commissioned story ‘Cinderella’ broadcast 2010
- Queens Nursing Institute Award Creative Writing as a therapeutic tool 2008-10
- Writing mentor regeneration project/New Writing North 2007
- Writing mentor Creative centre/New Writing North 2006
- Contributor to Independent Nurse (Journal for Professional Nurses)