Awards

Creative Writing

2025 Wilbur Smith New Voices Award One of 5 writers selected from a pool of international entries
2025 Tennessee Williams and New Orleans Literary Festival Fiction Contest (International) One of 12 finalists selected from a pool of international entries
2024 Wells Festival of Literature Short Story Competition Shortlist (International) One of 25 short stories shortlisted from a pool of international entries
2024 Writers of the Future Award (International) Honourable Mention
2023 Poet of the Year Competition Shortlist (International) One of 18 poems shortlisted from a pool of over 500 entries
2022 Dream Foundry Short Story Contest for Emerging Writers (International) One of 10 writers shortlisted from a pool of international entries
2022 Alpine Fellowship Poetry Prize Shortlist (International) Shortlisted from a pool of over 5000 entries
2021 Wells Festival of Literature Young Poets Prize (International) Emerged 3rd place, awarded £50
2021 Reading, Objectifs Museum (National) Invited to read creative work at an arts exhibition, given honorarium of $100
2020 Wilbur Smith Author of Tomorrow Award for Short Stories (International): Emerged 1st place out of 500 entries worldwide, awarded £1000
2019 Ilkley Literature Festival Walter Swan Prize (International): Emerged 2nd place, awarded £75
2018 iYeats Poetry Competition – Emerging Category (International): Emerged 1st place out of 400 entries worldwide, awarded €300
2017 Nancy Thorp Poetry Contest organised by Hollins University Honourable Mention
2017 Blue Mountain Arts Poetry Competition (International) Emerged 2nd place out of 1000 entries worldwide, awarded USD$200
2016 Bluefire Creative Writing Awards (International) Finalist
2016 IGGY Litro Young Writers Prize for Short Stories (International) Emerged 1st place out of 400 entries worldwide, awarded £1000
2016 Ledbury Poetry Festival – Young Poets Category (International) Emerged 3rd place out of 300 entries
2016 National University of Singapore Creative Writing Competition (National) Emerged 1st place winner nationally, awarded SGD$150
2015 Singapore Poetry Festival Competition (National) Merit Prize
2015 Creative Writing Ink Monthly Competition, March (International) Shortlist
2015 Cultured Vultures Poem of the Week 1st place
2015 International Stamford Junior Poetry Competition 3rd place
2014 International Junior Authors Poetry Contest Finalist
2014 International Torrance Legacy Creative Writing Awards 1st place

Mentorships

Academic Writing

Alpine Fellowship Academic Writing Prize 2020 (International): Essay Examining the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace emerged 3rd place out of ~400 entries in the Alpine Fellowship Academic Writing Prize
Ayn Rand International Essay Competition 2018 (International): Essay written on Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead emerged 2nd place out of 1,400 entries from around the world, winning USD$2000