Competitions & Publications

“…this poem presents us with such an interesting and varied list, there’s no way we can foresee the shocking humour of the last lines. A sparkling exercise in imagination and restraint to a point.” —Billy Collins, judge of the Fish Poetry Prize 2020, comments on the poem ‘Some Pleasures’, which he awarded second prize

COMPETITIONS (2018–2025)

• The Ver Prize 2025: second prize for ‘Roughly The Same’
• The Telegraph Poetry Competition 2025: runner-up for ‘Good Times’
• The Verve Prize 2024: commended for ‘Metapoetic’
• The Waltham Forest Competition 2024: second prize for ‘If You Were a Frisbee I’d Never Throw You Near Trees’
• Winchester Prize 2024: highly commended for ‘Hummingbird Hawk-moth’
• The Ware Prize 2024: commended for ‘Then The Sky’
• The Charm Prize 2024: second prize for ‘Jeff Does Poetry’
• Kent and Sussex Prize 2024: fourth prize for ‘Blood and Men Shouting’
• Free Verse Prize 2024: highly commended ‘Anxiety Scale for People Not Favourably Inclined Towards Babies’
• Poems on the Move (Guernsey Literary Festival) 2024 (judged by Paul Muldoon): commended for ‘The Electrician’
• Bridport Prize 2023: shortlisted for ‘Starfish’
• The Oxford Poetry Prize 2023: shortlisted for ‘I Let it Go’
• Ver Poets Open Competition 2023: highly commended for ‘After we tell our Mummy to Please Stop Smiling or we will have no Mummy’
• South Downs Poetry Festival Competition (Binsted) 2023: commended for ‘Mind Nan’s Legs’
• Magma Poetry Competition 2022/23: commended for ‘Thoughts Entertained While Sitting for Lucien Freud’
• The Forward Prizes for Poetry 2023: highly commended for ‘Tower’
• Ironbridge Festival of Imagination Poetry Competition 2022: third prize for ‘Invasive Species’
• Alpine Fellowship Poetry Prize 2022: special commendation for ‘Homing Pigeons’
• Ware Poets Open Poetry Competition 2022: second prize for ‘His Cars’ and commended for ‘Mark My Words’
• Liverpool Poetry Prize 2021: highly commended for ‘Bomb’
• The Bedford Poetry Competition 2021: third prize for ‘Halloween’
• Café Writers Open Poetry Competition 2021: highly commended for ‘When You Are King’
• The Telegraph Poetry Competition 2021: highly commended for ‘Happy Family Soliloquy’
• Cannon Poets Sonnet or Not Poetry Competition 2021: commended for ‘Letter’
• Frogmore Poetry Prize 2021: shortlisted for ‘Flight’
• Verve Poetry Festival Competition 2021: commended for ‘Donor’
• Sentinel Literary Quarterly Poetry Competition July 2021: first prize for ‘Likes You’
• Wigtown Poetry Prize 2021: shortlisted for ‘Homing Pigeons’
• Fish Poetry Prize 2021: shortlisted for ‘Grateful’
• Live Canon International Poetry Competition 2021: shortlisted for ‘Cornish Morning’
• Segora International Poetry Competition 2021: commended for ‘Dream’
• Ver Poets Open Competition 2021: first prize for ‘Gratitude’
• The Edward Cawston Thomas Fellowship Poetry Competition 2021: first prize for ‘Bedlington Terriers’
• The Kent and Sussex Poetry Society Open Competition 2021: second prize for ‘Elegy for Two Placentas’
• National Poetry Competition 2020: commended for ‘Sand’
• The Bedford Poetry Competition 2020: shortlisted for ‘Clarifying the protection of birds legislation’
• Folklore Publishing Writer’s Poetry Competition 2020: highly commended for ‘Nostalgia’
• Ver Poets Open Poetry Competition 2020: first prize for ‘Woodland’
• Ver Poets Open Poetry Competition 2020: highly commended for ‘Dig Deeper’
• Newcastle Poetry Prize 2020: highly commended for ‘Student’
• Segora Poetry Prize 2020: highly commended for ‘Pneumonia’
• Troubadour International Poetry Prize 2020: commended for ‘Wimbledon 2020’
• Oxford Brookes International Poetry Competition 2020: second prize for ‘How to Avoid Clichés’| (Read the poem here)
• Fish Poetry Prize 2020: second prize for ‘Some Pleasures’
• The Poetry Society Members’ Poems Competition Winter 2020: winner for ‘Boys’
• Yeovil Literary Prize 2019: second prize for ‘Neither of our Dogs are Black’
• Café Writers Open Poetry Competition 2019: first prize for ‘Canada’
• Troubadour International Poetry Prize 2018: commended for ‘The Days’
• Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Competition: 2018: highly commended for ‘What the Horses Told Us’
• Bridport Prize 2018: highly commended for ‘Curations’

PUBLICATIONS

• Black Iris Issue 3: ‘Wayne Explains Grindr’
• Candlestick Press, editor of ‘Ten Poems for Wellbeing’ including the poem ‘Home’
• The Alchemy Spoon: ‘And the Light’ and ‘Thoughts on your Memorial’
• Basket Issue 1: ‘What he said while we watched Dunkirk‘
• Poetry London Spring 2025: ‘The Speedos Model’ and ‘The Demystified Heart’
• Black Iris Issue 2: ‘Little Consequence’
• The Pomegranate London Issue 6 (April 2024): ‘Love Poem for Matthew Dickman’
• The London Magazine April/May 2024: ‘Sloaking Hord’
• Under The Radar Issue 32 Autumn 2023: ‘Contact Arrangements 1972’
• Strix #10: ‘Dust’, ‘Shellac’
• The Ver Prize 2023 Anthology: ”After we tell our Mummy to Please Stop Smiling or we will have no Mummy’, ‘1970s Boys’
• Five Dials Magazine Spring 2023: ‘Self-Portrait as an Angel’, ‘Maternal Ambivalence’, ‘Girls Later Life Orgasm Ode’
• Swapping the Present for a Future – The Verve Anthology of Beginnings (2022): ‘Donor’
• The Bedford Competition Anthology 2021: ‘Halloween’
• Fragmented Voices Anthology 2021: ‘The Best Place’
• Live Canon Anthology 2021: ‘Cornish Morning’
• The Bedford Competition Anthology 2020: ‘Clarifying the protection of birds legislation’
• The Oxford Times (November 2020): ‘Isolation’
• Live Canon Anthology 2020: ‘Rain’
• Quince Magazine Issue 2 Autumn 2020 ‘Street Life’: ‘The Size of it’
• Magma 77, Act Your Age: ‘The Menopausal’
• Spoonfeed Magazine Issue 1: ‘Trifle’
• The Moth Issue 41 Summer 2020: ‘Sheffield’
• Tears in the Fence 71: ‘Birthday Magic’
• Bridges Anthology 2019: ‘Neither of our Dogs are Black’
• Bluehouse Journal Issue 1: ‘Love’
• Bridges Anthology 2018: ‘Becky’, ‘On Balance’, ‘How Love Is’
• The Interpreters House Issue 68: ‘Shed’