Cia is a top 15 winner in the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2018, as well as a top 15 winner in 2017, and was a commended Foyle Young Poet in 2016. She is also a commended poet in  the Riddle Me This Poetry Challenge on The Poetry Society’s Young Poets Network, and a runner-up in the BBC Proms Poetry Competition 2017.