2012 Michael Marks Award : Dream Endings (Rack Press) wins the Michael Marks Pamphlet Award 2012!
Chair of Judges Alan Jenkins said: Roisin Tierney's subjects may be the dark ones of human vulnerability and anguish, but the poems in this wonderfully cohesive and well-organized sequence rest on solid and graceful foundations of precision, musicality and wit. A remarkable solo debut from this already much-noticed poet.
Other Prizes and Activities:
2017 - Sacred Heart 2nd prize Winchester Poetry Competition 2016 - Published in Poetry Ireland Review 2016: Rising Generation edition
2014 - Poem Gone highly commended in Forward Prize
2012 - Pamphlet Dream Endings wins Michael Marks Award
2008 - Selected for Poetry Ireland Introduction Series
2007 - Gothic wins 2nd prize - Brendan Kennelly Poetry Competition
2007 -Commended - Ware Poets Open Poetry Competition
2006 - Shortlisted - Strokestown Poetry Prize
2005 -Longlisted - Bridport Prize
2004 -2nd Prize - Oxfam Literature Festival
2002- Supplementary prize - Bridport Prize
2002- Special Commendatione - 7th How do I love thee? Open Poetry Competition
2001 -Shortlisted TLS Poetry Competition
2007 -Commended - Ware Poets Open Poetry Competition
2006 - Shortlisted - Strokestown Poetry Prize
2005 -Longlisted - Bridport Prize
2004 -2nd Prize - Oxfam Literature Festival
2002- Supplementary prize - Bridport Prize
2002- Special Commendatione - 7th How do I love thee? Open Poetry Competition
2001 -Shortlisted TLS Poetry Competition
Poet in Residence:
Sept 2018 – Hawthornden Castle, Scotland
July 2012 – Harvard Summer School, Centre for Hellenic Studies, Nafplion, Greece
Sometime tutor at The Poetry School
