Short Story and Novel Prizes:
‘Turnstones’, shortlisted, 2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize
Shortlisted, Society of Authors’ ALCS Tom-Gallon Trust Award, 2020
Longlisted, Bath Short Story Award 2020
Shortlisted, Dalkey Short Story Prize, 2019
This Starling Flock (novel), shortlisted for the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize, 2018
‘Emergency’, shortlisted, RA & Pin Drop Short Story Award, 2017
‘Holdfast’, finalist, The Sceptre Loves Short Story Competition, 2017
‘No Thief’, Special Mention, Galley Beggar Short Story Prize, 2016/17
‘The Quicken Tree’, shortlisted for both Aesthetica Creative Writing Award, 2014 and Fish Short Story Prize, 2013
‘Deathwatch Beetle’, shortlisted for This Means War competition, Irish Times, 2014
Shortlisted for the Over the Edge New Writer of the Year, 2014
‘Neutral Ground’, winner of the Offside Stories Competition, 2014
‘The Telephone Man’, winner of the Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition, 2013
‘Light Moves Like Water’, shortlisted for the Bridport Short Story Prize, 2010
‘A Servant’s Eye’, shortlisted for the Asham Award, 2009
‘Ante-Purgatory’, shortlisted for the Willesden Herald Short Story Prize, 2009
Writing Awards:
Shortlisted, The Alpine Fellowship, 2020
The Bridge Awards Short Story Mentoring Award, 2019
Jerwood/Arvon Mentoring Scheme 2015/16
Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship, Creative Scotland, 2013
New Writers Award, Scottish Book Trust, 2011
Winner of the Sceptre Prize, 2011
