Awards

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2025

• Hawthornden Writing Retreat, Italy: WritersMosaic & Royal Literary Fund

• Museum of English Rural Life Fellowship

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2023

• Shortlist: John Pollard International Poetry Prize

• Longlist: Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize

• Best Poetry Magazine: Butcher's Dog, Saboteur Awards

• HEA Advance HE Fellowship

 

2022

• Best Poetry Magazine: Butcher's Dog, Saboteur Awards

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2021    

• John Masefield Memorial Fund, Society of Authors

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2020   

• Innovation Award, European Roma Institute for Arts & Culture (ERIAC)

• Emergency Fund, Society of Authors

• Pandemic Relief Grant, Artists’ Union England
   

2019   

• Durham Book Festival commission: ‘The Traveller Road to Holy Island’, a collaborative walking, writing & drawing book with public engagement program in the North & South of England (New Writing North & Arts Council England)
   

2018   

• Runner-up: Troubadour International Poetry Competition, Faber Books Judges: Daljit Nagra & Jo Shapcott  

• Writing-up Fund Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences, Newcastle University

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2017   

• Nominee: Pushcart Prize

• Newcastle Institute for Social Renewal Grant, Lead Applicant. The Cold Boat: Walking With Refugees. Continued development of writing workshops for ESL speakers in HM Government’s Refugee Relocation Scheme

• AHRC, Research Training & Support Grant for research visits to the Victoria & Albert Museum (London) & Yale Center for British Art (USA)

• Gateshead Council Grant for 'Poems After the Blaydon Races' with Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums

2016

• The Catherine Cookson Foundation Charitable Trust Grant

• Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts Grant
   

2015   

• NCL+ Advanced Award in Leadership

• Newcastle Institute for Social Renewal Fund: The Cold Boat: Poetry of Witness public engagement events program & creative writing workshops with refugees in North Tyneside​

• AHRC Innovation Fund, Lead Applicant: Creative Practice Completion Symposium: a cross-institutional, interdisciplinary residential for PGRs to exhibit, present & perform practice-led research in progress

• AHRC Innovation Fund: Northern Bridge DTP poetry reading, Durham University

2014   

• Arts and Humanities Research Council, Northern Bridge Doctoral Training Partnership: full scholarship

• Shortlist: Melita Hume Poetry Prize for writers under 30, Judge: Emily Berry

• Shortlist: Bridport Poetry Prize, Judge: Liz Lochead

• Saatchi and Saatchi, EE Internship, London

2012   

• Northern Writers' Award, New Writing North, Judge: Paul Farley

2009   

• Longlist: Alfred Bradley Bursary Radio Play Awards

2010   

• Northumberland Bursary, Yorkshire Ladies’ Council of Education

2007   

• Jack Higgins Outstanding Academic Performance Prize, Leeds University