 In the same year, she won First Prize in the National Poetry Competition with 'Breaking the Rule'.Copus was awarded a Royal Literary Fund Fellowship at the University of Exeter in 2005, 2006 and 2007, and the following year was made an RLF Advisory Fellow and awarded an Honorary Fellowship at the University of Exeter.In 2010, she won the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem for 'An Easy Passage'.