Long-listed for 2023 Highland Book Prize
Harper's Baazar shortlisted story 2018
Royal Literary Fellowship in Stirling University 2018 - 19
Royal Literary Fellowship in Dundee University 2015 - 17
Shortlisted for Scottish Novel of the Year 2011
Awarded a Scottish Arts Council bursary in 2010
Winner of the V.S.Pritchett Short Story Prize 2008
Nominated for the Saltire Prize for Best Scottish Book of the Year 2008
Nominated for the SAC Sundial Prize 2008
Awarded a Scottish Arts Council bursary in 2006
Awarded a Scottish Arts Council bursary 1999
Short-listed for the Macallans/Scotland on Sunday short story competition, 1998.
Cynthia has been a judge for numerous competitions, including the Dundee Book Prize and the Neil Gunn Prize.