Competitions, Magazines & Anthologies

Competitions

  • 2025 2nd place Poetry London Prize, judged by Victoria Kennifick, who said: ‘Hiding Place is an outstanding example of how form and content reflect each other to create a seamless and unforgettable poetic experience. In these dark times when even poems don’t seem up to the task of bearing witness to the daily horrors this poem so cleverly and boldly exposes the layers of avoidance, trauma and denial we cycle through’.
  • 2025 Longlisted, Four Faced Liars Competition
  • 2025 Longlisted, Write Out Loud 20th Anniversary Competition
  • 2025 Shortlisted, the Alpine Fellowship Poetry Prize
  • 2025 Equal fourth, the Kent & Sussex Poetry Competition, judged by Kit Fan, who said:  ‘With unfiltered directness like a documentary, the poem records a trauma, while prioritising intimacy and cleanliness over pain and self-indulgence. The fabric of life collides sharply and full-throatedly – yet in such a careful pitch – with the fabric of death, unburdening a deeply felt memory onto page and back into memory.
  • 2024 Highly Commended, Fool For Poetry Award 2024, Munster Literature Centre.
  • 2023 Longlisted, National Poetry Competition, judged by Will Harris, Clare Pollard and Jayne Draycott.
  • 2023 Highly Commended, the Fool for Poetry International Chapbook Competition, Munster Literature Centre.
  • 2023 Shortlisted, The Bridport.
  • 2023 Commended by Greta Stoddart, Ware Poetry Competition.
  • 2023 Commended by Julia Webb, Ver Poetry Competition.
  • 2023 Highly commended by Sue Proffit, Graham Burchell Award, Teignmouth Poetry Festival.
  • 2022 Winner of the Silver Wyvern, Poetry On The Lake, judged by Robert Seatter.
  • 2021 Shortlisted, The Wells Festival Open Poetry Competition.
  • 2021 Highly Commended, Silver Wyvern, Poetry On The Lake, judged by James Harpur.
  • 2020 Joint winner of the Hedgehog Press Full Fat Collection Competition.
  • 2020 two poems commended by Alasdair Paterson in the Devon section, Teignmouth Poetry Festival.
  • 2019 Highly Commended by Patience Agbabi in Marsden, The Poetry Village Competition

Magazines & Anthologies

  • The AfterShock Review, 2 poems, Issue 3, June 2026
  • Abridged, 2 poems, Issue 0-107, ‘Elixir’, April 2026
  • Safety in Numbers, women’s poetry anthology, March 2026, Yaffle Press
  • Poetry London, Autumn Issue 112, 2025
  • Write Out Loud 20th Anniversary Echoes Anthology Sept. 25
  • The High Window, June 2025
  • The Interpreter’s House, Issue 83, May 2025
  • Magma, ‘In The Flesh’, Issue 91, March 2025
  • Ink Sweat & Tears, March 7th, 2025
  • Lighthouse Journal, Issue 28, Dec 24
  • Poetry for Coaching: Transformation through Verse, (anthology), Nov 24
  • The Marrow International Poetry, Issue 2, October 24
  • Harana Poetry, Issue 12, August 24
  • Lighthouse Journal, Issue 27, April 24
  • The Alchemy Spoon, Issue 12, Spring 24
  • Ink, Sweat & Tears, October 23
  • Finished Creatures, Issue 7, Spring 23
  • Ink, Sweat & Tears, February, 2023
  • Raceme, Issue 14, Spring 23
  • The Alchemy Spoon, Issue 10, Summer 23
  • The Ver Poetry Prize anthology, 2023
  • The 25th Ware Poetry Competition Anthology, 2023
  • One Hand Clapping 2022.
  • Ink Sweat & Tears, March 2022
  • Voices For The Silent, League Against Cruel Sports, edited by Ronnie Goodyer, 2022
  • One Hand Clapping 2022.
  • Obsessed With Pipework, Issue 100, Samhain 22
  • The Alchemy Spoon, Issue 8, Winter 22
  • Travels & Tribulations Anthology, Acid Bath Publishing, 2022
  • The Lake, February 2022
  • One Hand Clapping 2021
  • Things That Go Bump In The Night, Dreich Anthology, 2021
  • Wells Poetry Festival Shortlisted Poems anthology, 2021
  • Poetry Village 2021
  • Obsessed With Pipework, Issue 96, Samhain, 2021
  • Dream Catcher 44, 2021
  • Despite Knowing, Addiction Anthology, edited by Veronica Aaronson, Fore Street Press, 2021
  • Ink, Sweat & Tears, June 2021
  • Allegro, Issue 26, March 2021
  • Ink, Sweat & Tears, November 2020
  • The Ofi Press, Issue 66, 2020
  • Ink Sweat & Tears April, 2020
  • Messages To The World, Dreich Anthology, 2020
  • Snakeskin, 2020
  • Envoi, Spring 2020
  • Poetry Shed 2020
  • Dream Catcher 42, 2020
  • Allegro, Issue 23, December 2019
  • Together, Marsden the Poetry Village Competition Anthology, 2019
  • For The Silent, League Against Cruel Sports, edited by Ronnie Goodyer, 2019
  • Obsessed With Pipework, Issue 88, Samhain, 2019
  • The Curlew, Larix, Volume III, Issue IV, September 2019
  • Allegro, Issue 22, September 2019
  • Allegro, Issue 19, December 2018
  • Anima, Issue 5, Summer 2018