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History

These awards were funded by the Queensland Government. The winners were announced during the Brisbane Warana Festival.

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 1996

winner (Steele Rudd Award) y separately published work icon A Night at the Pink Poodle Matthew Condon , Milsons Point : Arrow Books , 1995 Z565230 1995 single work novel (taught in 8 units)
winner (Premier's Poetry Award) In the Wheat Dane Thwaites , 1997 single work poetry
— Appears in: Imago : New Writing , Autumn vol. 9 no. 1 1997; (p. 1-4)

Year: 1995

winner (Steele Rudd Award) y separately published work icon Suck My Toes Fiona McGregor , Ringwood : McPhee Gribble , 1994 Z327618 1994 selected work short story
winner (City of Brisbane Short Story Award) Heroes Ian Wilkinson , 1996 single work short story
— Appears in: Imago : New Writing , Autumn vol. 8 no. 1 1996; (p. 56-67)

Year: 1994

joint winner (City of Brisbane Short Story Award) Two Sorts of People Brigid Lowry , 1995 single work short story
— Appears in: Imago : New Writing , March vol. 7 no. 1 1995; (p. 20-24)
joint winner (City of Brisbane Short Story Award) What a Fortune! Mai Nguyen , 1995 single work short story
— Appears in: Imago : New Writing , March vol. 7 no. 1 1995; (p. 25-31)

Year: 1993

winner (Steele Rudd Award) y separately published work icon The House of Breathing Gail Jones , Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 1992 Z508629 1992 selected work short story (taught in 2 units)

'The invasion of East Timor, the sinking of the Titanic, Freud's encounter with an "imbecile dwarf," astronomy, pregnancy, Tiananmen Square, a remote Aboriginal community: these historical episodes and narratives inspire the fourteen superb and engaging short stories in The House of Breathing, winner of four major Australian literary prizes. Concerned with the extremes of human experience, Jones's stories give fictional form to a wide range of philosophical concerns: cultural imperialism, political and sexual repression, the impact of modern technology on culture and consciousness.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (US ed.)

winner (City of Brisbane Short Story Award) What Is Important? Said the Buddha John Kelly , 1993 single work short story
— Appears in: Imago : New Writing , December vol. 5 no. 3 1993; (p. 22-24)
winner (Premier's Poetry Award) y separately published work icon Yarmul : For the Lies We Sing i "singing singing and hoping to remember the map beat dust unknowing as grass", Chris Mansell , Berry : Chris Mansell , 1999 Z481590 1993 single work poetry

Year: 1992

winner (Premier's Poetry Prize) Dog Days i "After the blazoned festival,", Peter Rose , 1993 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Catullan Rag 1993; (p. 32-35) Imago : New Writing , March vol. 5 no. 1 1993; (p. 1-3) The Oxford Book of Modern Australian Verse 1996; (p. 251-254)
winner (Steele Rudd Award) y separately published work icon What God Wants Lily Brett , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1991 Z77283 1991 selected work short story humour satire A series of interlocking stories in vignette style, set in Melbourne's Jewish community and tracing the lives of a group of people. (Source: UQP)

Works About this Award

Loose Novel Takes Top Award Terry O'Connor , 1996 single work column biography
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 5 September 1996; (p. 7)
Grunge Tales Take Out Top Story Prize Ian Hicks , 1995 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 2 October 1995; (p. 12)
Bookends [The Courier-Mail, 2 September 1995] Terry O'Connor , 1995 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 2 September 1995; (p. wkd 8)
Warana Writes Off Qld Authors Terry O'Connor , 1994 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 26 September 1994; (p. 3)
A Highly Strung Player Janet Chimonyo , 1993 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 4 September 1993; (p. 9)
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