Awards (Winner/Champion) Poetic Justice?

  • 2003, 2004 and 2007 Walla Walla Written Award
  • 2004 and 2005 Beaudesert Qld. Golden Horseshoe Performance Competition Awards
  • 2004 Royal Easter Show "The Land" writing Competition, winner of $34,000.00 Tractor.
  • 2003/4 NSW State Champion
  • 2005 Hunter Bush Poets‘Henry Lawson’ Award
  • 2005 Inverell ‘Golden Angel’ Written Award
  • 2005 Inverell ‘Golden Angel’ Performance Award
  • 2005 Tenterfield, Oracle of the Bush
  • 2005 National Folk Festival, Canberra Performer of the Year
  • 2005/6 Mulwala Murray Muster Champion ‘Jillaroo’Bush Poet
  • 2005/6 Gilgandra ‘Cooee” Open Written Winner
  • 2006 Tamworth 'Blackened Billy' Written Award
  • 2006 Member of Winning Team World Poetry Debate
  • 2006 Victorian Open State Championships Winner
    • Carol Heuchan & Friends
  • 2006 Nandewar Historical Society Open Written Poetry Award
  • 2006 Bundaberg 'Bush Lantern' Written Award
  • 2006 Brisbane Exhibition (Ekka) Winner
  • 2006/7 Young, Cherry Blossom Festival Overall Champion
  • 2007 Burrinjuck Inaugural Poetry Festival Winner (all sections)
  • 2007 Tamworth 'Golden Damper' Performance Winner
  • 2007 Crookwell Upper Lachlan Festival Classic Winner
  • 2007 Queensland Open State Championships Written Winne
  • 2007 North Pine Qld. 'Camp Oven Award' Champion
  • 2007 Australian Bush Poetry Champion, all categories
  • 2008 Tamworth “Golden Damper” Performance winner
    • Carol Heuchan
  • 2008 Crookwell Wool Wagon Awards – winner in every category & Overall Champion
  • 2008 Woodford Folk Festival ‘Spirit of Woodford’ Storytelling Award
  • 2009 Gippsland Wattle Nat. Written Winner

Australian Bush Laureate Awards (Recorded Works)

  • 2005 Finalist Book of the Year
  • 2006 Winner CD Album of the Year
  • 2007 Winner CD Recording of the Year
  • 2007 and 2008 Performer of the Year
  • 2008 Winner Book of the Year
  • 2009 Finalist Album of the Year
  • 2009 Finalist Recording of the Year

Carol has subsequently stepped back from competing to fulfill publishing, professional judging, performance and commentary commitments in Australia and overseas.