Award-winning poet and writer
awards
Anne Casey has won or been shortlisted for poetry awards in Ireland, Northern Ireland, the USA, the UK, Hong Kong, Canada and Australia:
2021
- Awarded 2nd Prize in the Crosswinds Poetry Contest 2020 (USA).
- Highly Commended and shortlisted in the Anthology Poetry Prize 2020 (Ireland) - announced in January 2021.
- Commended in the Tom Collins Poetry Prize 2020 (Fellowship of Australian Writers, Western Australia) - announced in February 2021.
- Shortlisted for the Bedford Writing Competition 2020 (UK) -announced in January 2021.
- Longlisted for the Sunspot Literary Culmination Contest 2020 (USA) - announced in 2021.
- Longlisted for the Trim Poetry Competition 2021 (Ireland).
2020
- Awarded 1st Place in the Into the Void Poetry Prize 2020 (Canada).
- Awarded 1st Prize in the Proverse Poetry Prize 2020 (Hong Kong).
- Awarded 1st Prize in the Published Fantasy Authors Competition 2020 (Australia).
- Awarded 3rd Prize in the Poetry Day Ireland Competition 2020 - Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital, Poetry Ireland and the Research Institute.
- Finalist in the Atlanta Review International Poetry Contest 2020 (USA).
- Awarded Honorable Mention in Crosswinds Poetry Contest 2020 (USA).
- Commended in the Sutherland Shire Literary Competition 2020 (Australia).
- Shortlisted for The Plough Prize 2019 (UK) - announced in April 2020.
- Shortlisted for the ACU Prize for Poetry 2020 (Australia).
- Shortlisted for the Allingham Poetry Competition 2020 (Ireland).
- Finalist in the Australian Shadows Awards 2019 - announced in June 2020.
- Nominated for The Pushcart Prize (USA) by Beltway Poetry Quarterly.
- Longlisted for Palette Poetry Emerging Poet Prize 2020 (USA).
- Longlisted for The Fish Poetry Prize 2020 (Ireland).
- Longlisted for the Alice Sinclair Memorial Writing Competition 2020 - Fellowship of Australian Writers, Lake Macquarie, NSW (Australia).
2019
- Awarded 2nd Place and Highly Commended in the Planet in Peril Poetry Competition (UK) - a joint initiative by Fly on the Wall Poetry Press; World Wildlife Fund; The Climate Coalition; Dr Michelle Cain (Oxford University); former Derbyshire Poet Laureate, Helen Mort; and wildlife photographer, Emily Gellard.
- Awarded 3rd Prize in the International Proverse Poetry Prize 2019 (Hong Kong).
- Finalist and Commended in the 25th Annual Melbourne Poets Union International Poetry Competition (Australia).
- Shortlisted for the ACU Prize for Poetry 2019 (Australia).
- Shortlisted for the Overton Poetry Prize 2018 (UK) - announced in March 2019.
- Shortlisted for the Allingham Poetry Competition 2019 (Ireland).
- Shortlisted for the Galway University Hospital Arts Trust Annual 'Poems for Patience' Competition 2019 (Ireland).
- Shortlisted and awarded Special Mention in The Aryamati Poetry Prize 2019 (UK).
- Shortlisted for the Bestiary of the Night Poetry Competition- Hedgehog Press (UK).
- Shortlisted for the Bangor Forty Words Competition 2019 (Northern Ireland).
- Longlisted for Best Australian Science Writing 2019.
2018
- Awarded 1st Prize in Alice Sinclair Memorial Writing Competition 2018 - Fellowship of Australian Writers, Lake Macquarie, NSW (Australia).
- Awarded 1st Prize in the Henry Lawson Verse & Short Story Competition 2018 - Traditional Verse (Australia).
- Awarded 3rd Place in the Women’s National Book Association Poetry Competition 2018 (USA).
- Awarded Highly Commended in the Fellowship of Australian Writers Queensland Literary Competition 2018.
- Longlisted for the 2018 University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize (Australia).
- Awarded Honorable Mention in the 45th New Millennium Writing Awards 2018 (USA).
- Longlisted for the Bedford International Writing Competition 2018 (UK).
- Finalist in the SLS 2018 Fiction & Poetry Contest (Canada).
- Commended in the Bangor Forty Words Competition 2018 (Northern Ireland).
- 'Poem of the Week' on HeadStuff arts hub - 18 May 2018 (Ireland).
- Commended in the Roscommon County Library Poetry Competition 2018 (Ireland).
2017
- Won the Glen Phillips Novice Writer Award 2017 (Australia).
- Shortlisted for the Bedford International Writing Competition 2017 (UK).
- Shortlisted for Hennessy New Irish Writing (Ireland).
- Shortlisted for the Cúirt International Poetry Prize 2017 (Ireland).
- Shortlisted for the Eyewear Books Poetry Prize (UK).
2016
- Shortlisted for the Bangor Annual Poetry Competition 2016 (Northern Ireland).
2015
- Shortlisted for Hennessy New Irish Writing (Ireland).
- Shortlisted for the Bedford Writing Competition 2020 (UK) -announced in January 2021.