Residencies and Bursaries
2021 – Red Line Book Festival, Writer-in-Residence. “As part of her residency, Robinson will lead an eight-week course – free and open to the public to apply – titled Unroar – Outdoor Poetry in a Time of Ecological Crisis.”
2021 – Agility Award from the Arts Council of Ireland.
2020 – Professional Development Bursary from DLR Arts Office and Creative Ireland to collaborate with composer-musician Malachy Robinson on writing a poem sequence for performance as a music drama.
September 2019 – Residency at Bergen, Norway – as the Irish Writers Centre Norwegian-Irish Exchange Writer
May/June 2019 – Poet-in-Residence at The Archive, National Centre for Biological Science (NCBS) Bangalore, India
Poetry Awards and Commendations
2019 – Shine Strong Award, best début poetry collection – first place
The judge, Leontia Flynn, said: “This is a collection of poems which comes at its ecological subject awry, never obviously, and there is humour as well as precision in the journeys these poems make and the subjects to which they attend… Attentiveness to the precariousness of the natural world is matched, then, in ‘Journey to the Sleeping Whale’, by an equal attentiveness to language itself.”
2019 – Gingko Ecopoetry Prize – runner-up
2016 – Oxford Brookes Poetry Competition – shortlisted
2015 – Red Line Book Festival Poetry Award – first place
2015 – Patrick Kavanagh Award – second place
2015 – Four Corners College Oxford Poetry Competition – commended for two poems
2015 – The Bridport Prize – shortlisted
2015 – Pacuare Poetry Competition in support of Pacuare Nature Reserve – commended
2014 – Strokestown International Poetry Competition – first place
2014 – Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Competition – special commendation
2011 – The Bridport Prize – shortlisted
2011 – UCD Anthology Poetry Contest – shortlisted
2010 – Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Prize – commended
