May 2018
Awarded a Creative Ireland community grant from to work with the children in Ballyvaughan National School on ‘ A Poem for Ballyvaughan’
April 2018
Awarded a 2018 Birr Writer’s Residency by Offaly Co. Council Arts Office
September 2017
September 2017 Monthly winner, Poetry – Hennessy New Irish Writing
July 2016
Awarded a Department of Foreign Affairs bursary to attend the 2016 John Hewitt Summer School in Armagh, Northern Ireland.
May 2016
Awarded a Tyrone Guthrie Bursary by Clare Co. Council – residency will be used to work on my first poetry collection.
October 2015
Third Prize – Baffle Poetry Competition, Baffle Festival
September 2015
Second Prize – Wild Atlantic Words Poetry Competition, Hungry Hill Festival
August 2014
Full Scholarship from the Yeats International Summer School, Sligo

February 2014
Winner, Words on the Waves Poetry Award