- Shortlisted for the Retreat West Flash Fiction Prize 2019
- Nominated for Lost Balloon’s Best of the Net in Poetry for Mrs Dalloway Kind of Day
- Shortlisted for inclusion in the Solstice Shorts Festival 2019, Time and Tide Anthology Competition
- Shortlisted as Best Anthology in the Saboteur Awards for May We Borrow Your Country
- First Collection Poetry Award 2019 awarded by the Word Masala Foundation
- Longlisted for the TSS International Flash Fiction Competition 2019
- Longlisted for the Cambridge Short Story Prize 2018
- Longlisted for InkTears Short Story Contest 2018
- Longlisted for the 2018 Leicester Writes Award
- BBC National Short Story Award 2018: My story, Amma made the top 60, from almost 1000 entries
- Longlisted for the 2017 BAME/Guardian Short story prize
- Shortlisted for the 2014 SI Leeds literary Prize
- First Prize two years running in UNESCO Poetry Competition