Awards and Listings

Writing Awards

• The Bridge Awards Short Story Mentoring Award, 2019
• Shortlisted for the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize, 2018
• 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

Short Story Prizes and Shortlists

• Longlisted, Retreat West Short Story Prize, Dec 2019
• ‘Da’s Chair’, shortlisted, Dalkey Short Story Prize, 2019
• ‘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, 2015
  • 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’, First Prize, 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