Internationally award-winning poet and writer
awards
Anne Casey has won or featured in poetry, writing and related awards in Ireland, the USA, the UK, Hong Kong, Canada and Australia:
2024
- Awarded the American Association of Australasian Literary Studies Poetry Prize 2024 (1st Prize).
- Shortlisted for The London Magazine Poetry Prize 2024.
- Shortlisted for the Society of Women Writers New South Wales National Writing Competition 2024: Non-Fiction Prize (results to be announced in November 2024).
- Shortlisted for the Society of Women Writers New South Wales Poetry Book Prize 2024 (results to be announced in November 2024).
- Highly Commended in the Gregory O'Donoghue International Poetry Competition 2024.
- Commended in the Troubadour International Poetry Prize 2023 (awarded in February 2024).
- Special Mention in the International Welsh Poetry Competition 2024.
- Longlisted for the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize 2024.
- Longlisted for the Red Room Poetry Fellowship 2024.
2023
- Awarded Distinguished Favorite in the NYC Big Book Awards 2023 for 'Some Days The Bird', a poetry collection coauthored by Anne Casey and Heather Bourbeau and published by Beltway Editions.
- Finalist in the American Writers Review Contest 2023.
- Finalist in the Joanne Burns/Spineless Wonders Microlit Awards 2024 - announced in 2023.
- Nominated for the Best of the Net Awards 2023 by Trasna literary journal.
- Shorlisted for the UTS Writing Competition 2023.
- Selected for Best Australian Science Writing 2023.
- Longlisted for the Live Canon International Poetry Prize 2023.
2022
- Awarded 1st Prize in the Henry Lawson Poetry Competition 2022 (Australia).
- Awarded 2nd Prize in the New York Encounter Poetry Contest 2022 (USA).
- Awarded 3rd Prize in the Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust 'Poems for Patience' Competition 2022 (Ireland).
- Highly Commended in the New Zealand Poetry Society International Poetry Prize 2022.
- Highly Commended in the Society of Women Writers NSW Book Awards 2022 (Australia) for 'the light we cannot see' poetry collection.
- Commended in the W B Yeats Poetry Prize for Australia 2022.
- Finalist in the Eyelands International Book Awards 2022 for "Portrait of a Woman Walking Home' poetry collection.
- Semi-Finalist in the Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize 2022 (45th Annual Literary Awards, Nimrod Journal, USA).
- Shortlisted for the International Rubery Book Award 2022 (UK) for 'Portrait of a Woman Walking Home' poetry collection.
- Shortlisted for the Red Room Poetry Fellowship 2022 (Australia).
- Shortlisted for the ACU Poetry Prize 2022 (Australia).
- Shortlisted for The Plough Poetry Prize 2022 (UK).
- Shortlisted for the Live Canon International Poetry Prize 2022 (UK) - final results pending.
- Shortlisted for the Bedford Poetry Prize 2021 (UK) - announced in January 2022.
- Shortlisted for the National Writing Competition 2022 (Society of Women Writers New South Wales, Australia).
- Shortlisted for the Society of Women Writers NSW Book Awards 2022 (Australia) for 'Portrait of a Woman Walking Home' poetry collection.
- Longlisted for Poetry Book Awards 2022 (UK) for 'Portrait of a Woman Walking Home' poetry collection.
- Longlisted for Poetry Book Awards 2022 (UK) for 'the light we cannot see' poetry collection.
2021
- Awarded 1st Prize in the American Writers Review Contest 2021.
- Winner of the 2021 iWoman Global Award in the field of Literature.
- Awarded 1st Prize in University of Technology Sydney Three Minute Thesis Competition 2021 - Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences.
- Awarded 2nd Prize in the Crosswinds Poetry Contest 2020 (USA - announced in 2021).
- Honor Prize in Naji Naaman Literary Prizes 2021 (International/Lebanon).
- Highly Commended in the Anthology Poetry Award 2020 (Ireland) - announced in January 2021.
- Highly Commended in the Amnesty International Poetry for Social Justice Competition 2021 (UK).
- Shortlisted for the Bridport Prize 2021 (UK).
- Shortlisted and Commended in the Tom Collins Poetry Prize 2020 (Fellowship of Australian Writers, Western Australia) - announced in February 2021.
- Shortlisted for the Bedford Poetry Prize 2020 (UK) -announced in January 2021.
- Shortlisted for the Anthology Poetry Award 2021 (Ireland).
- Longlisted for Live Canon International Poetry Prize 2021 (UK).
- Longlisted for The Plough Prize 2021 (UK).
- 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 Hospitals Arts Trust '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 Poetry Prize 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
- Awarded the Glen Phillips Novice Writer Award 2017 (Australia).
- Shortlisted for the Bedford Poetry Prize 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 & before
- Shortlisted for the Bangor Annual Poetry Competition 2016 (Northern Ireland).
- Shortlisted for Hennessy New Irish Writing 2015 (Ireland).
- Global Innovation Award 2000 - PricewaterhouseCoopers Global.
- Best-Selling New Publication 1997 - CCH Australia
- 1st Place in Graduating Class & Marketing Opinion Magazine Prize for Best Overall Student 1989 - Technological University Dublin/Dublin Institute of Technology, College of Commerce & "Marketing Opinion" magazine