MaxLiteracy Award 2021: writer on joint project with Wirral Hospitals’ School (Joseph Paxton Campus) & Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool.
Saboteur Awards 2021: Winner in best poetry pamphlet category for The Weight of Snow (Maytree Press, 2021).
Saboteur Awards 2020: shortlisted in the Poetry pamphlet category for ‘The Ghost Hospital’ (Maytree Press, 2019).
Liverpool University: LiNK KE Exchange Fund 2017.
AHRC 10th anniversary national essay competition – overall winner, 2016
Liverpool University: Centre for New and International Writing 2016, bursary.
Liverpool University: Bursary/award 2014.
Liverpool University: John Lennon Memorial Scholarship 2014 – 2018.
Liverpool Echo Environmental Award with North End Writers 2013.
Community Champion Award, Merseyside Community Foundation, 2006.
COMPETITIONS
2020 Longlisted in inaugural Artlyst/ Poetry Society competition with ‘Two Children Are Threatened by a Nightingale’.
2010 IOTA Shots booklet competition (Templar Poetry) shortlisted with Voices of the Benares.
2009 Runner-up in Commonword’s Three Chapters Competition with novel: The Confessions of Polly Malone.
2008: Short-listed in Writing on the Wall’s Pulp Idol competitions – novel: Geraldine’s Summer.
2007 Short-listed in Writing on the Wall’s Pulp Idol competitions – novel: The Tolerance Zone.
Burning Bright 