Ian is the recipient of numerous awards, fellowships and grants. Among the most recent are the Meridian Energy Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship at Menton in France (2005), a Fulbright New Zealand Travel Award to the USA (2006), an Arts Foundation Laureate Award (2006), a Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Auckland (2007), an ONZM (2010), and the Landfall Essay Prize (2010). In 2011- 13 Wedde was New Zealand's poet laureate. He was awarded the Creative New Zealand Writers' Residency in Berlin 2013- 14, and in 2014 the Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement (poetry).
