Flash fiction story, “Little Vova”, placed first in Streetlight Magazine’s Flash Fiction Competition for 2023.

Poem, “At the Bakery After the Pathology Report Arrives”, selected as one of ten poems to be displayed on buses and SkyTrain cars during 2023/2024 as part of Translink and BC Transit’s Poetry in Transit Program.

Poem, “Union Jack”, received the “Commended” designation in the poetry categoy in the Bangor Literary Journal‘s 40-Words Competition for 2022.

Poem, “Dream, Interrupted”, longlisted for Fish Publishing’s Fish Poetry Prize in 2018. Fish Publishing administers its poetry competitions from Bantry, Co. Cork.

Poem, “We Strive to Dismiss their Prejudices with Humour (A Lamentation in 7/4 Time)”, shortlisted for the Federation of British Columbia Writers “Word Writes” Poetry Competition in 2018.

Short story, “But No, Nothing” (first published in the Irish anthology Gem Street 2014), received an Excellence in Contemporary Narrative Award in the Ireland-based Leonard A. Koval International Fiction Competition for 2014.

Short story, “Cake, Bang and Elm” (first published in the Irish literary anthology Gem Street 2012), placed third in the Ireland-based Leonard A. Koval International Fiction Competition for 2012. The story was also nominated in the USA for a Pushcart Prize in 2012.

Short story, “This Long Outing”, shortlisted in the Glasgow-based Unbound Press Short Story Competition for 2011.

Flash fiction story, “The Mars Hotel” (first published in the Scottish literary anthology Story.Book in 2011 as a Spilling Ink Review competition-winning story), shortlisted for the Bridport Prize (UK) in the flash fiction category in 2010.

Short story, “Ceann Dubh Dilis”, placed first in Pottersfield Portfolio Magazine’s Compact Fiction Competition for 1998.

Short story, “Young Love in the Brayburn Road”, given honourable mention in Grain Magazine’s Postcard Story Competition for 1996.

Short story, “De Mortuis Nil Nisi Bonum”, published in Grain Magazine, shortlisted for the Canadian National Magazine Award for Fiction for 1993.