Writing Awards

• 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

• ‘Emergency’, Shortlisted, RA & Pin Drop Short Story Award 2017
• ‘Holdfast’, Runner-up, The Sceptre Loves Short Story Competition, 2017
• ‘The Quicken Tree’, shortlisted for both  Aesthetica Creative Writing Award, 2015, and Fish Short Story Prize, 2013
• ‘Deathwatch Beetle’, shortlisted for the 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