⸙ prizes/nominations

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POETRY

• Beneath Another Waning Moon:- Shortlist, Wells Open Poetry, 2025

• At The Stroke of Midnight:– 2nd Place, CV2 2-Day Poem Contest, 2025

• hey, be grateful:- Honourable Mention, Hungry Hill Writing: Poets Meet Politics Series, 2025

• fluid dynamics:- Longlist, Dithering Chaps chapbook Prize 2025

• Tomorrow, A Different Universe:- Winner, New Millennium Writings Poetry Prize, 2024

• In the Eastern Townships, Quebec:- Winner, Canterbury Poet of the Year 2024 (Joint First Place)

• a brutish numbing:- Winner, Princemere Poetry Prize 2023. My gratitude to the judges & Mark Stevick for this huge honour.

• all the horses of love:– Longlist, Bournemouth Poetry Prize, 2024 (unpublished)

• Butterfly Eggs:- Longlist, Contemporary Verse 2 Foster Poetry Prize (unpublished) 2024

• worn, yellow lines – Shortlist, Bridport Poetry Prize, 2023 (unpublished) a very prestigious nomination for which I still have goosebumps….

• In Brand New Coats – Longlist, Canterbury Poet of the Year, 2022, published
• In Our Bright New Coats:- Malahat Review Open Season, 2015 (Finalist, unpublished)

• break/ fast:- Special Mention, Proverse Press; Mingled Voices 5, 2021,

• kindling:– Honourable Mention, Fish Publishing Poetry Prize, 2019

• e/motion:- Shortlist, Sunspot One Word Contest, 2020

• Winter Reflections, Lake Okanagan:– Longlist, Palette Poetry Emerging Poet, 2020 (unpublished)

• Star Detour:- Gemini Poetry Open, 2020 (Notable poems, unpublished))

• savage lands, published in Literary Review of Canada, 2018, named Notable Poem in Best Canadian Poetry, 2019

• Arktos/Exóriotos:- Longlist, Room Poetry Contest, 2019 (unpublished)

• We’re All On Fire:– Honourable Mention, subterranian blue Golden Oracle Contest, 2018

• bodyparts & recipes:– Riddled With Arrows, 2017 (Nominated for Sundress Best of the Net, 2018 – by email)

• Number 99:- Forgotten Women, A Tribute in Poetry, Grayson Books, 2017; Nominated for a Pushcart Prize (scroll down and go to Oct 12 in the link “Barrows”)

• lucky rabbit’s foot:- Princemere Poetry Prize, 2016: – (Finalist)

• The Winning Side:- Shortlist, Hawai’i Review Ian McMillan Poetry Contest, 2015 (unpublished)

• shark’s teeth; fear of falling :- Finalist, Midwest Writing Centre Mississippi Valley Contest, 2014

• When the Rhodesians Came:- Finalist, published in Ascent Aspirations What We Take Home Contest, 2013

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FLASH FICTION

• Attraversiamo:- Winner in Glittery Literary Flash Fiction Contest, April, 2020
• Attraversiamo:- Longlist, Flash 500, Quarter 3, 2020

• Armed & Semi-Dangerous:- Edinburgh International Flash Fiction Award, 2020 (First Place). Go to my “interviews & readings” page to hear actor Alan Cumming read this piece.

• Friday Afternoon at the Hair Salon:- Centifictionist, 2020 (Nominated Nov 10 for Pelekenetic Best Microfiction 2020)

• Me, LB & Q:- Gemini Flash Prize, 2020 (Notable Story)

• Pale Blue Eyes Are Watching:– Grindstone, 2019 (Longlist)

• Crimson Eyes are Watching:– LitMag Anton Chekhov Flash Fiction Award (Longlist, unpublished—email); also the Older Writers Grant, June 2018:- Speculative Literature Foundation (Honorable Mention)

• Redemption By Degrees, Centigrade:- EllipsisZine, 2019 (Winner of 6-months Mentorship)

• Heaven At Last:- Geist Postcard Contest, 2016 (Second place)

• Come:- Brillliant Flash Fiction, 2016 (Longlist, unpublished)

• Through the Bridge, Backwards:- Postcards, Poems & Prose drawkcaB Flash Fiction Contest, 2013: (Winner). Art: photo: White Bridge, Washington

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MULTIGENRE ART/ PHOTOGRAPHY

• ‘Love Keeps No Record of Wrongs’: Winning Photograph in ‘Love is Love’ Contest, Makarelle, Issue 1, 2022

• Sometimes the End is the Beginning:– Sunspot “Culminations” Contest 2021 (shortlist, unpublished)

• Hawk Huddle:– CAGO Online Gallery, 2018 – (First Place, Sports)

• Am’ker #16:— Fusion Art Figures And Faces Contest, 2016 (Third place)

• Banff Tunnel #2:- Fusion Art Red, White & Blue Contest, 2016: (Finalist)