Cia is a top 15 winner in the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2019, as well as a top 15 winner in 2017 and 2018, and was a commended Foyle Young Poet in 2016. She is also a commended poet in the meme challenge, written and judged by poet Rishi Dastidar, on Young Poets Network; is commended in the Riddle Me This poetry challenge; and is a runner-up in the BBC Proms Poetry Competition 2017.