Gerard Hanberry won the Brendan Kennelly Sunday Tribune Poetry Award. His poetry has been published widely in many literary journals and newspapers and has been shortlisted for many of Ireland's top poetry prizes including a Sunday Tribune/Hennessy Award in 2000, Strokestown 2003 and RTE's Rattlebag Poetry Slam 2003, he was runner-up in the Firewords City Poetry Award (Galway) 2005. In 2000 Gerard won the Originals Short Story prize in Listowel Writers Week. "Impresses by its range of moods, settings, and forms, yet what remains most vivid are its embryonic stories."-World Literature Today.