Simon was the winner of the Hennessy Prize for Emerging Poetry and the runner-up in the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award in 2015. He also featured in Poetry Ireland’s Introductions Series the same year. He has been shortlisted for the Listowel Poetry Prize and Bridport Prize and has received commendations in the Gregory O’Donoghue prize and Dromineer Literary Prize. His first collection, Jewtown, is published by Doire Press in 2016.
