Readings 2025
In July 2025, Aidan performed at a number of open mic events in Dublin.
Neuron Count was shortlisted in the Plough Arts Centre Poetry Prize, highly commended in the Morecambe Poetry Festival Competition and won a top six prize in the New Writers Poetry Competition 2025. This performance was at a Circle Sessions event in the International Bar in Dublin's Wicklow Street in July.
Readings 2024
In 2024, Aidan was invited to perform at a number of prizegiving events in Ireland and the UK.
Mutatis Mutandis was highly commended in the Goldsmith Festival Poetry Competition. The reading was at Pallas Co. Longford in June 2024.
Charade won 2nd prize at the Redline Book Festival Competition 2024 The prizegiving took place at Castletymon Library in Tallaght, Co. Dublin in Oct 2024.
The Plant featured in the Slipstream Poets Competition (highly commended) and Ware Poets Competition (commended) and won 3rd prize in the Waterford Poetry Prize Competition 2024.
2024 and earlier
Tearaway (Blues) was shortlisted at the Redline Book Festival Competition 2024 The prizegiving took place at Castletymon Library in Tallaght, Co. Dublin in Oct 2024.
Halfway House was shortlisted for the Liverpool Poetry Prize 2023 The prizegiving took place at the Brain Charity in Liverpool, UK in June 2023.
The Park, a lockdown poem was among the winners of the Poetry Archive Word View Competition 2021 Results were announced at the end of 2021.