Kay has taken part in many poetry competitions, including:

• EFL Poetry Competition 1999 (1st)
• Middlesex Full Circle Competition 1999 (1st)
• Chiltern Writer’s Competition 2000 (1st)
• SEAL Open Poetry Competition 2003 (1st)
• Poole Poetry Slam 2004 (2nd)
• Ottaker’s/Faber Poetry Competition 2004 (1st)
• Partners 21st Open Poetry Competition 2006 (Highly Commended)
• Long-listed, Bridport Poetry Prize 2006
• 2007, Virginia Warby Poetry Prize 2006 (3rd)
• Long-listed, Bridport Poetry Prize

Kay has also been involved with a number of magazines and publications; these include Poet in Profile, South 35, 2007, Interpreter’s House, South, Doors, Poetry File and his local newspaper, the Bournemouth Daily Echo.He has also recently published his first collection of verse, It Wouldn't Do, Collection 2008.

Kay has been actively involved with a number of readings locally and further afield, these include among others:

• Christchurch Poetry Festival 2002
• Wimborne Poetry Festival 2002
• Word and Action, Dorset 2002
• Poetry Café NPS, London 2002
• Glenmoor School 2003
• Wimborne Library 2003
• National Poetry Day/Russel-Cotes Museum, Bournemouth, 2003
• Poole Poetry Slam 2004
• Wessex Poetry Festival 2004
• National Poetry Day/Russel-Cotes Museum, Bournemouth, 2004
• National Poetry Day/Russel-Cotes Museum, Bournemouth, 2005
• Ferndown Upper School, 2006
• South, Waterstones, Southampton, 2006
• South, Bournemouth University, 2007
• Reading with Malcolm Povey Bournemouth University 2007
• Sounds 07 Festival, Kingston Lacy House, Wimborne, 2007
• Poetry Reading at 'All Fired Up' Cafe in Bournemouth, 2008