Fokkina has a poetry pamphlet, three collections, and a Northern Writers’ Award from New Writing North (2020).

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Awards and competition successes

• Awarded 4th place in Kent & Sussex Poetry Society’s Open Competition 2026 with Interior with a Table.
• Manuscript submissions shortlisted and (highly) commended in 2024 and 2025.
• High wind one of 20 poems selected by jury for The Poetry Archive’s 2022 Poetry Now! Wordview competition.
• Northern Writers’ Award for Poetry from New Writing North, 2020.
• Nominated for the Forward Prize for best single poem (2019) with Partial view of a loch.
• Awarded the Sonnet Prize (Ware Poets), 2nd place in the Marple and Waltraud Field competitions. Winner of the members’ competition (Poetry Society).
• Runner-up in Ambit competition.
• Highly commended in the Poetry on the Lake, Manchester Cathedral competitions.
• Commended in Barnet, Magma, Waltraud Field, Havant, and Ware Poets competitions.
• Entry in the 2013 erbacce competition was commended. Over 6,000 entries were received.

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Haiku

• Haiku, tanka, haibun, renga/renku and other collaborative sequences have been published in anthologies and magazines: Bare Bones, Blithe Spirit, Presence, Journal of Renga and Renku, Lynx, the Iron Book of British Haiku, Poetry Pea, and The Pan Haiku Review.
• Reviews for Presence of books of haiku, tanka and haibun published in the UK and elsewhere.

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Fiction and Non-fiction

• Short stories were semi-finalist in competitions.
• Diving at Calypso Bay was broadcast on BBC radio. 
• Prize-winning essay Have the Outplacement Agencies got it right?, CEPEC Tenth Anniversary Essay Competition.