- The Saltires: Scotland’s National Book Awards Poetry category 2025 longlisted - Exact Colour of Snow
- Café Writers Competition 2024 commended - Mary in bits
- Wigtown Poetry Alastair Reid Pamphlet Prize 2022 runner-up - The Confinement
- Bridport Poetry 2020 shortlisted - At the walnut processing factory
- Vision SPL Champions 2020 commissioned poem and video - Dead Loss
- Mac Arts Developing New Work project funding award 2020
- Café Writers Competition 2019 commended - The owl pellet
- Waverley Lines poetry competition 2015 2nd place - Online search Borders Railway
- Collaborating poet Scott’s Treasures 2014 (partnership project between the Abbotsford Trust
CABN with funding from Scottish Book Trust/Ronald Duncan Literary Foundations & Creative Scotland) - Gavin Wallace inaugural fellowship 2014 shortlisted - [Portfolio]
- Co-ordinator of Writing Fragments, part of the wider Fragments project 2014
(a partnership between Historic Scotland and the Hawick Heritage Hub supported with funding from Creative Scotland) - Participating Creative Practitioner in Bimblebox 153 Birds, Queensland, Australia:
a creative exploration of the bird species that inhabit the Bimblebox Nature Refuge. - Commissioned poem for Darnick Village Hall Centenary 2014 - Smith Memorial Hall
- Scottish Book Trust New Writer Award 2014 - [Portfolio]
- National Poetry Competition 2014 longlisted - Talking about how blood moves
- Participating Creative Practitioner Working the Tweed (Year of Natural Scotland) 2013
- Scottish Writers' Centre Open Writing Competition 2012 3rd Prize - Good intentions
- 'Poems by Postcode' competition Latitude Festival 2009 shortlisted - The walk to school, Darnick
- Bassetlaw Writers Poetry Competition 2007 commended - Talking about riding horses yesterday morning
- Hastings International Poetry Competition 1988 highly commended - For Ann(e)