| 1996 | La Belle Literature Prize for short prose |
| 1998 | 1st prize from the Westphalian Literature Office Invitation to the Literature Course in Klagenfurt / Austria Invitation to the Arno Schmidt Foundation |
| 2000 | Young Talent Prize from the Ruhr Valley Literature Awards Final round of the “Fragmente 2000” Prize (University of Bamberg) |
| 2001 | One of five winners of the ”jungle b” competition (Brecht Forum, Berlin) |
| 2002 | 1st Prize in the Kargo Europa competition (Autorinnenforum e.V.) |
| 2003 | Final round of Leonce und Lena poetry competition, Darmstadt |
| 2004 | Invitation to the German-French-Polish Writers Meeting in Wroclaw / Poland 2nd Prize from the Polish Embassy and the Polish Culture Institute, Berlin for the short story “Der Leuchtturmwärter (polnische Ostseeküste)” |
| 2005 | Among the winners of the “Gedichtwettbewerb 2005” of the Library of German Poetry |
| 2006 | Nominated by the German Historical Museum, Berlin, as one of Germany’s 40 most important writers under 40 (and among Germany’s top 100 creative people) |
| 2015 | 1. Prize Poetry-Contest by the german-speaking libraries („Gedichtwettbewerb der deutschsprachigen Bibliotheken“) |
| 2016 | In Katzendorf (Cața), Transylvania / Romania Tanja Dückers was honored with the „Dorfschreiber-Prize 2016“. This Prize is awarded yearly by the romanian-german Writer’s Union „Felicia Now“, the Union of Writers in Romania and the Exile-P.E.N German-Language-Literature and the Democratic Forum in Kronstadt. The Prize is related with a residency in Katzendorf / Cata. |