Awards, Grants 

& Praise

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2023

• John Pollard International Poetry Prize, Shortlist.

• Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize, Longlist.

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

 

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   

• European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) Innovation Award.

• Emergency Fund, Society of Authors.

• Artists’ Union England, Pandemic Relief Grant.

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2019   

• Hospitalfield Arts, Writer’s Residency, Arbroath, Scotland.

• Arts Council England and New Writing North. Durham Book Festival commission. ‘The Traveller Road to Holy Island’, a collaborative walking, writing, and drawing book with a public engagement program in the North and South of England. Outlandish and debut poetry pamphlet Moveable Type (New Writing North).

• NHS North Tyneside Clinical Commissioning Group.
  Writing and arts for well-being public engagement program. Sessional Workshops for ESL speakers in HM Government’s Refugee Relocation Scheme.
   

2018   

• Troubadour International Poetry Competition, Faber Books Runner-Up.
  Judges: Daljit Nagra and Jo Shapcott.   

• Writing-up Fund, School of English, Newcastle University.

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

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2017   

• Pushcart Nomination.

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

• Arts and Humanities Research Council, Research Training and Support Grant. Research visit to the Victoria and Albert Museum, London and Yale Center for British Art, Connecticut, USA.

• Gateshead Council Grant: poetry publication for Tyne and Wear Archives and 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, creation of a digital archive, and creative writing workshops with refugees in North Tyneside​.

• Arts and Humanities Research Council Innovation Fund, Lead Applicant. Creative Practice Completion Symposium: a cross-institutional three-night residential in Scotland for PGRs to exhibit, present, perform and discuss practice-led research in progress.

• Arts and Humanities Research Council Student Development Fund.

• Arts and Humanities Research Council Innovation Fund, Co-applicant.
  Cross-institutional Northern Bridge DTP poetry reading, Durham University.

2014   

• Arts and Humanities Research Council, Northern Bridge Scholarship.

• Melita Hume Poetry Prize for Writers Under 30s, Shortlist. Judge: Emily Berry.

• Bridport Poetry Prize, Shortlist. Judge: Liz Lochead.

• Saatchi and Saatchi, EE Internship Winner, London.

2012   

• Northern Promise Award, New Writing North. Judge: Paul Farley.

2009   

• Alfred Bradley Bursary Radio Play Awards, Longlist.  

2010   

• Northumberland Bursary, Yorkshire Ladies’ Council of Education.

2007   

• Jack Higgins Outstanding Academic Performance Prize, Leeds University.