Cornelia Smith Fick was longlisted for the Sol Plaatje EU Poetry Award (2016), the erbacce award (2021) and highly commended in The Sentinel Literary Quarterly Poetry Competition (2020). Her debut collection Eye of a Needle: And Other stories, was published in 2017. Her stories and poems are in EXPERIMENTAL WRITING: Volume 1, Africa VS Latin America; Fractured poetics: a poetry anthology; Soho Square V, Bloomsbury; To breathe into another voice, a poetry/jazz anthology; Ladyboxbooks; Poetry Potion; Spelk; New Contrast and Atlanta Review among others. She is currently a PhD candidate at University of the Western Cape.