Bauhinia Literary Awards
The Bauhinia Literary Awards is our prestigious annual competition, which attracts entries from all over Australia. The Winners are announced at the CQUniversity Open Day, held at the Rockhampton Campus. Winning stories and poems will be published in the next issue of Idiom 23.
To see the list of winners from previous years, please click on the following links:
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In 2010, it had been twenty years since Professor David Myers as Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences, suggested a group of Capricornia Institute journalism and creative writing students, and a couple of lecturers, put together a literary magazine. The first issue in 1987 was called Yapunya. The following year it was renamed Idiom 23, (representing the Tropic of Capricorn at 23 degrees latitude). In order to celebrate the magazine's longevity, we produced a special edition commemorating our late director of the CQUniversity Press, who tragically died in March 2007. In his memory, the David Myers Prize was introduced as part of our annual Bauhinia Literary Awards. These awards, sponsored by Central Queensland University and several local sponsors, have been running for some years attracting open, regional and student entries in short fiction and poetry from all over Australia. As part of the awards, long time magazine supporter CQUniversity Bookshop manager David Murray will present a $500 book voucher for this prize. Judges will choose ‘a unique piece of writing' from the overall entries received. |
