POETRY
- In the Eastern Townships, Quebec:- Winner: Canterbury Poet of the Year 2024 (Joint prize)
- a brutish numbing:- Winner, Princemere Poetry Prize 2023. My gratitude to the judges & Mark Stevick for this huge honour.
- all the horses of love:– Bournemouth Poetry Prize, 2024 (longlist)
- Butterfly Eggs: – Contemporary Verse 2 Foster Poetry Prize (Longlist, unpublished) 2024
- worn, yellow lines – Bridport Poetry Prize, 2023 (shortlist, unpublished) a very prestigious award for which I still have goosebumps….
- In Brand New Coats – Long list for Canterbury Poet of the Year, 2022, published
- break/ fast:- Proverse Press; Mingled Voices 5, 2021, (Special Mention)
- kindling:– Fish Publishing Poetry Prize, 2019 (Honorable Mention)
- savage lands, published in Literary Review of Canada, 2018, named Notable Poem in Best Canadian Poetry, 2019
- We’re All On Fire:– subterranian blue Golden Oracle Contest, 2018 (Honorable Mention)
- bodyparts & recipes:– Riddled With Arrows, 2017 (Nominated for Sundress Best of the Net, 2018 – by email)
- Number 99:- Forgotten Women, A Tribute in Poetry, Grayson Books, 2017; Nominated for a Pushcart Prize (scroll down and go to Oct 12 in the link “Barrows”)
- shark’s teeth; fear of falling :- Midwest Writing Centre Mississippi Valley Contest, 2014 (Finalist)
- When the Rhodesians Came, published in Ascent Aspirations What We Take Home Contest, 2013 (Finalist)
FLASH FICTION
- Attraversiamo:- Winner in Glittery Literary Flash Fiction Contest, April, 2020
- Armed & Semi-Dangerous:- Edinburgh International Flash Fiction Award, 2020 (First Place). Go to my “interviews & readings” page to hear actor Alan Cumming read this piece.
- Friday Afternoon at the Hair Salon:- Centifictionist, 2020 (Nominated Nov 10 for Pelekenetic Best Microfiction 2020)
- Crimson Eyes are Watching:– LitMag Anton Chekhov Flash Fiction Award (Longlist, unpublished—email); also Honorable Mention for the Older Writers Grant, June 2018:- Speculative Literature Foundation
- Redemption By Degrees, Centigrade:- EllipsisZine, 2019 (Winner of 6-months Mentorship)
- Heaven At Last:- Geist Postcard Contest, 2016 (Second place)
- Through the Bridge, Backwards:- Postcards, Poems & Prose drawkcaB Flash Fiction Contest, 2013: (Winner). Art: photo: White Bridge, WA.
UNPUBLISHED
- Winter Reflections, Lake Okanagan:- Palette Poetry Emerging Poet, 2020 (Longlist)
- e/motion:- Sunspot One Word Contest, 2020 (Shortlist)
- Star Detour:– Gemini Poetry Open, 2020 (Notable poems)
- Me, LB & Q:- Gemini Flash Prize 2020 (Notable Story)
- Winter Reflections, Lake Okanagan; Beneath the Weeping Skin; Soundings:- Princemere Poetry Prize 2020, (Finalist) email Mark Stevick
- (Pale Blue) Eyes Are Watching:- Grindstone, 2019 (Longlist)
- Arktos/Exóriotos:- Room Poetry Contest, 2019 (Longlist)
- lucky rabbit’s foot:– Princemere Poetry Prize, 2016: – (Finalist)
- Come:- Brillliant Flash Fiction, 2016 (Longlist)
- In Our Bright New Coats:- Malahat Review Open Season, 2015 (Finalist)
- The Winning Side:- Hawai’i Review Ian McMillan Poetry Contest, 2015 (Shortlist)
MULTIGENRE ART/ PHOTOGRAPHY
- ‘Love Keeps No Record of Wrongs’: Winning Photograph in ‘Love is Love’ Contest, Makarelle, Issue 1, 2022
- Sometimes the End is the Beginning:– Sunspot “Culminations” Contest 2021 (shortlist, unpublished)
- Hawk Huddle:– CAGO Online Gallery, 2018 – (First Place, Sports)
- Am’ker #16:— Fusion Art Figures And Faces Contest, 2016 (Third place)
- Banff Tunnel #2:- Fusion Art Red, White & Blue Contest, 2016: (Finalist)
