Awards

 

• Glencar was commended in the Francis Ledwidge Poetry Award 2023 in December 2023.

• Poetry Ireland awarded a grant through its Bright Ideas Scheme to fund a workshop on tarot and poetry as part of Poetry Day 2022.

• I won an Arts Project Award from South Dublin County Council Arts Office to deliver creative writing classes in 2022.

• The haibun Village Clean Up received an honourable mention in the Genjuan International Haibun Contest 2021.

• An extract from my novel An Affinity for Metal was shortlisted in the Penguin Christmas Love Story Competition in 2021.

• The haiku ‘boiling kettle’ was runner-up for the British Haiku Society Museum of Literature Award in February 2021.

• Brú na Boinne won 3rd place in the Ballyroan Library Poetry Competition 2021.

• Aftermath won 2nd place in the Ballyroan Library Poetry Prize 2020.

• Silent House was long-listed in Over the Edge New Writing Competition 2019.

• Eight poems from Camino Cantos were shortlisted as Highly Commended in the Blue Nib Poetry Chapbook Contest V in 2019.

• Eight poems from Camino Cantos were shortlisted as Highly Commended in the Blue Nib Poetry Chapbook Contest IV in 2018.

• My poem, Driftwood, was shortlisted for the Bray Literary Festival Poetry Award 2018.

• I won a scholarship to attend the Yeats Summer School 2018 through the Irish Writers Centre.

• The poem In the Bath won 2nd place in the Ballyroan Library Poetry Competition 2018, and the poem Pass was highly commended in the same competition.

• I was awarded the Individual Artist Bursary from South Dublin County Council in April 2018.

• The haiku ‘trees, more trees’ was a runner-up haiku for the British Haiku Society Museum of Literature Award in February 2017.

• The haiku ‘leaves of the ash’ was the editor's choice for the Cattails haiku online journal in September 2016.

 

Panels, Mentoring and Schools

 

• I was accepted onto the Richmond Barracks Artist Panel in 2024 for 2 years. 

• I have completed one 14-hour residency in two schools and a 20-hour summer course for the TAP+ (Teacher Artist Partnership Plus) scheme, which is a Department of Education Scheme. 

• I am listed on the BLAST scheme for the Dublin West Education Centre and will be able to teach in schools from 2023.

• I have been on the advisory committee for the Ark Theatre since 2022.

• I have been a mentor with the National Mentoring Programme since 2022.

• I have been a professional Irish Writer’s Centre member since 2022.

• I am a full member of the Irish Writer’s Union since 2024.

• I was awarded a mentorship through Words Ireland (now the National Mentoring Panel) to work on my next collection of poetry, Rainbow Street, in 2021. Amanda Bell is the mentor who worked with me.

• Maeve O’Sullivan mentored me in haiku in 2013 and 2014. 

 

Workshops and Courses

 

• I gave a poetry workshop online on the basics of poetry in Nov - Dec 2023 

• I gave a poetry workshop as part of the Red Line Festival in October 2023

• I was accepted into Kwame Dawes's Poetry Ireland Masterclass, which is part of the Kilkenny Arts Festival 2023.

• I have been accepted onto the list of facilitators in libraries for South Dublin County Council.

• I gave a haiku course at the Richmond Barracks Museum in January - February 2023.

• In November 2022, I gave a poetry workshop on social justice to primary school children at Clonburris National School.

• I gave a workshop called Write Your Star on tarot and poetry as part of the Bright Ideas scheme for Poetry Day 2022. I was one of four ideas selected across the country. Poetry Ireland funded this.

• I was selected for the Un-roar Eco-poetry course by the South Dublin County Writer-in-Residence Jane Robinson as part of the Red Line Festival in 2021.

• I was selected for a one-to-one mentoring session with Brian Kirk by South Dublin Library Services in April 2020.

• I gave a workshop to the Market Lane Poetry Writers Group, Fermoy, Co. Cork, in 2018.

• I had a one-on-one manuscript makeover session with James Harpur in 2018 as part of the Cork Spring Poetry Festival.

• I gave a 2-hour workshop on introducing haiku as part of the Red Line Festival in 2016.

• I completed a Teach Creative Writing Course with Dave Lordan at the IWC in 2015.

• I had a manuscript makeover session with Mark Grainer at the Irish Writers’ Centre in 2015.

• I attended a one-day creative writing workshop led by Eduardo C. Corral as part of the Cork Spring Poetry Festival in 2013.

• I attended a one day creative writing workshop lead by Vona Groarke as part of the Poetry NOW festival in 2010.

• I attended a one day creative writing workshop lead by Eamonn Grennan as part of the Poetry NOW festival in 2003.

• I attended a one day creative writing workshop lead by August Kleinzahler as part of the Poetry NOW festival in 2002.

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Readings

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• I read at the Cork Spring Poetry Festival in May 2022.

• I hosted and read at Dolcáin’s Cellar Open Mic in October 2021 as part of the Red Line Festival.

• I read as a special feature at Dolcáin’s Cellar Special Christmas Event in December 2019.

• I read as a special feature at Ealóin, an open mic at the International Bar in November 2019.

• I read as a special feature at the Dolcáin’s Cellar Open Mic in December 2018.

• I read the two winning poems at the Ballyroan Library in April 2018.

• I emceed the Library After Dark Writer’s Café readings at Clondakin Library in December 2017.

• I was the guest poet for the Ó Bhéal Open Mic reading series in May 2017.

• I read as part of the Experience Japan Festival 2014 - 2017.

• I have read as part of the Red Line Festival 2016 in Tallaght, Dublin.

• From 2015 to date, I have read at open-mic readings at Dolcáin’s Cellar, Flying South, Sunflower Sessions, Ó Bhéal, Merg Sessions, Accents Café, and Takin the Mic.