Tom is the first-prize winner in the Mary Wollstonecraft challenge on Young Poets Network, written and judged by Bee Rowlatt of the Mary on the Green campaign. He is also commended in the second Bloodaxe Archive challenge, in which Sinéad Morrissey asked for poems using white space; commended in August Challenge #2: Fairy Tale Poetry; and in August Challenge #3: Repetition & Imagery.