competitionsandachievements

COMPETITIONS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

The North: Featured Title: Some Couples
Forward Prize Anthology 2014
Strokestown Prize 2013	Shortlisted
Edwin Morgan Poetry Competition 2012	Commended
Bridport Prize 2010 "....it's an act of memory so precisely realized, so naturally expressed that it becomes its own resonant 'jar of quietness', a stay against untold pain and grief." Michael Laskey, Judge.	3rd Prize
At Sea GCSE English AQA Lit Unseen Poetry Foundation House GCSE English AQA Lit Unseen Poetry Higher Level
Mirehouse Poetry Competition 2010 "A Beauty" John Burnside, Judge.	1st Prize
Slipstream Poetry Competition 2010	2nd Prize
Yeovil Literary Poetry Prize 2009 “I very much admired the Second Prize poem, There’s a Graveyard near the Sea. Sonnet-length, with the title as the first line, this poem is urgently physical and beautifully detailed - we imagine the upright dead, pining for their fishing nets or bowls of dough. The ending amazingly turns the shocking into the tender.” Carol Ann Duffy, Judge.	2nd Prize
Ware Open Poetry Competition 2009	2nd Prize
Essex Open Poetry Competition 2008	2nd Prize
Forward Prize Anthology 2007
Academi Cardiff International Poetry Competition 2007	2nd Prize
Ottakar’s and Faber Poetry Competition 2006	The National Winner
Strokestown Prize 2005	Shortlisted