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QUT Creative Writing Prize
or QUT Creative Writing Prize
Subcategory of Awards Australian Awards
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History

The QUT Creative Writing Prizes offer $2000 each for the first-place winners of the postgraduate and Undergraduate categories. In addition to the cash prize, Highly commended certificates are awarded to all shortlisted candidates, and the final entries are published in the annual QUT Creative Writing and Literary Studies journal, Rex.

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2015

winner Being the Boy the Memoir David Thornby , 2016 single work short story
— Appears in: Award Winning Australian Writing 2016 2016; (p. 166-174) The Lifted Brow , March no. 29 2016; (p. 56-58)

Year: 2014

joint winner Your Mother Was a Dancer Ben Goodfellow , 2015 single work short story
— Appears in: Award Winning Australian Writing 2015 2015; (p. 175-183)
joint winner The Elements Laura Elvery , 2015 single work short story
— Appears in: Award Winning Australian Writing 2015 2015; (p. 218-226)

Year: 2013

winner Emily O'Grady for Phantom Limbs
joint winner Phantom Limbs Emily O'Grady , 2013 single work short story
— Appears in: The Lifted Brow , November no. 20 2013; (p. 20) Award Winning Australian Writing 2014 2014; (p. 45-51)
joint winner Queen's Cross Sarah Kanake , 2014 single work short story
— Appears in: Award Winning Australian Writing 2014 2014; (p. 236-242)

Year: 2012

winner The Tourists Jack Vening , 2012 single work short story
— Appears in: Rex : The Journal of New Writing 2012; (p. 8-11) Award Winning Australian Writing 2013 2013; (p. 56-61)
winner Stigmatic Emily O'Grady , 2012 single work short story
— Appears in: Rex : The Journal of New Writing 2012; (p. 4-7)
UNDERGRADUATE PRIZE

Year: 2011

winner Karl the Touch Typist Brooke Davis , 2011 single work short story
— Appears in: Rex : The Journal of New Writing , vol. 3 no. 2 2011; (p. 4-10) Award Winning Australian Writing 2012 2012; (p. 63-71)
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