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

• 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 Winner
• 2007 North Pine Qld. 'Camp Oven Award' Champion
• 2007 Australian Bush Poetry Champion, all categories
• 2008 Tamworth “Golden Damper” Performance winner

• 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
• 2010 Kangaroo Valley Folk Club Written Comp. Winner
• 2011 Winner Broken Ski Award, written competition Snowy Mountains Music Festival
• 2011 "Billy Mateer" Written Competition, Qld.
• 2011 Lachlan Wool Wagon Award (Humorous Written)

• 2012 and 2014 Copper Croc Award, Theodore, Qld

Australian Bush Laureate Awards (Recorded Works)

• 2005 Finalist Book of the Year - "Horsing Around"
• 2006 Album of the Year - "A Pocketful of Poetry"
• 2007 Single Recording of the Year - "Why?"
• 2007 Performer of the Year and also in 2008
• 2008 Book of the Year - "Touching Tales"
• 2010 Album of the Year, Original Verse - "I Say!"
• 2011 Finalist Book of the Year - "Hold Yer Horses!"
• 2011 Children's Poem of the Year - "Petunia"
• 2012 Album of the Year “Partners”
• 2012 Recorded Poem of the Year “Partners”

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