Deb Waters won the Bridport Short Story Prize, and in 2024, she won The Letter Review's Short Fiction competition. Debra has also been shortlisted for the Bath Short Story Award, the Bridport Flash Fiction Prize, the Oxford Flash Fiction Prize, and the Pat Kavanagh Award, and was a finalist for the London Independent Story Prize, aka LISP, (flash category) and highly commended for the Writers and Artists Working Class Writers Prize. She has been published online in Litro, LISP, The Letter Review, and Flash Flood.