Selected Awards, Grants, Prizes

• Longlisted fpr Women’s Prize for Fiction (formerly Orange Prize) 2013
• Calvin and Rose G. Hoffmann Prize (2011)
• Arts and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Award (2006 – 2009)
• Poetry Book Society Recommendation [for Material] (2008)
• Arts Council England Grants for the Arts (2006)
• SEEDA Public Art Award Shortlist (2005)
• Authors Foundation Award (2005)
• Writers Inc Poet of the Year 1st (2000)
• Asham Short Story Award 2nd (2000)
• National Poetry Competition Commendation (2000)
• South East Arts Writers Bursary (1999)
• Geoffrey Dearmer Poet Of The Year Award Runner-Up (1999)
• Arvon International Poetry Competition Commendation (1998)
• National Poetry Competition Commendation (1997)
• Independent on Sunday Short Story Competition (1997)
• South East Arts Writers Bursary (1995)
• National Poetry Competition Commendation (1987)