2002. 1st Prize, Amnesty International Competition, with ‘Winter Coat‘.

2003  2nd Prize, essex Poetry Competition, with ‘Dark Matter’

2003. Winner Poetry Business Book and Pamphlet Competition with ‘Living on the Difference’

2005. First Prize, Ledbury Poetry Competition, with ‘Rosie‘.

2006. First Prize, National Poetry Competition, with ‘The Third Wife‘.

2008. ‘The Third Wife’ placed third in Poetry Society poll of all first prize winners of National Poetry Competition.

2008. A folio of five poems short-listed for Manchester Poetry Prize.

2011. Third Prize, Strokestown Competition, with ‘Mack‘

2011. Third Prize, Larkin and East Riding Competition, with ‘From The Cabinet of Idioms‘.

2012. Commended, Troubadour Competition, ‘A Tale from the Town Maze’

2020. Shortlisted, Strokestown Competition with ‘The pause’

2021. Commended, Troubadour Competition, with ‘What we take with us and what we leave’

2021. Second runner up (Third Prize), Frogmore Prize, with ‘The origamist’

2022. Commended, National Poetry Competition, ‘My Uncle Ivan’

2023. First Prize Kent and Sussex Competition, ‘Nonesuch’

2023. Highly commended Live Cannon Competition, ‘How the wind will sing of us’