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Winning the Guyana Prize for Literature for my first collection LIMBOLANDS in 2000 |
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Winning a Leverhulme scholarship to research performance poetry in Barbados in 1999 |
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Creating and organising the Inscribing Literature festival in East Kent 2002-4
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Being Kent's Outstanding Adult Learner in 1994 |
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Winning writing awards from Meridian TV, & Arts Councils & the TS Eliot from Kent University |
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Representing Kent in Europe as part of MUSE |
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Achieving a BA & MA as a mature student at Kent University |