Awards and Recognition
- The Lake Aske Memorial Award (1982 & 1987)
- The Douglas Gibson Memorial Award (1986)
- The Sylvia Plath Award for Poems about Women (1986)
- The Hugh MacDiarmid Trophy (2003)
Roger Elkin won the Diversity House (Excel for Charity Poetry Competition 2009. In 1987 he was shortlisted for the Bloodaxe New Blood book-length publication list. He became the first recipient of the Howard Sergeant Memorial Award for Services to Poetry in 1987; and was The Writer's Rostrum "Poet of the Year, 1991". He was one of 10 shortlisted poets (out of 4,000 entries) for the 2003 Strokestown International Poetry Competition; and one of 6 shortlisted for the Keele University Poetry Prize (2007).
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