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Awards & Funding​

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  • 2024. Bermuda Arts Council Grant 

  • 2024. Ards & North Down Borough Council, Individual Artist Grant

  • 2023. Bermuda  Government Literary Award for Poetry (Cecile N. Musson Prize), for The Tipping Line (Templar Poetry, 2018)

  • 2023. James Merrill House, Writing Fellowship (Stonington Connecticut)

  • 2020. Individuals’ Emergency Resilience Programme, Arts Council of Northern Ireland 2018.

  • 2018. Bermuda Government Literary Award for Poetry (the Cecile N. Musson Prize), for Pilgrimage (Templar Poetry, 2017)

  • 2017. Ards & North Down Borough Council, Individual Artist Grant

  • 2013. Bermuda Government Literary Award for Poetry (the Cecile N. Musson Prize), for The Beachcomber’s Report (Templar Poetry, 2010) 

  • 2012. Arts Council of Northern Ireland: Artists’ Career Enhancement Scheme (ACES)

  • 2011. Hawthorden Fellowship. Writer’s residency at Hawthorden Castle, Scotland. (Unable to take advantage because of caring duties at the time)

  • 2011. Shortlisted for Rupert & Eithne Strong Award for Best First Collection (The Beachcomber’s Report, Templar Poetry 2010)

  • 2009. Arts Council of Northern Ireland: Support for the Individual Artist Award

  • 2009. Winner of the Templar Poetry Pamphlet Competition, with Kelpdings

  • 2006-2009. PhD studentship with the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry, School of English, Queen’s University Belfast

  • 2007. Student-led Initiative Award, Queen’s University Belfast

  • 2006. James Kilfedder Memorial Bursary, North Down Borough Council. 2-week residency at Tyrone Guthrie Centre

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