Recently the Queensland Literary Awards announced their winners for 2023. Among them was Brisbane queer author Steven MinOn who was announced as the winner of the Glendower Award for an Emerging Queensland Writer.
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has been awarded the 2022 Australian Small Publisher of the Year Award, beating an outstanding field of entries to claim the country’s most prestigious publishing prize for the second year in a row.Director of UQP
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Jazz Money screamed in disbelief when she was told she had won last year s David Unaipon Award, having made her submission only two days before the deadline. I absolutely thought I wouldn t win, I didn t think poetry would stand a chance for some reason, laughs the artist and writer.
Ms Money submitted her poems to a few publishers before she entered the David Unaipon Award, and says she was feeling quite downhearted after being met with silence. Just before the Unaipon Award closed, I thought I d submit (the poems), because I was hopeful I would get some feedback and my words would be read by someone I respect, she tells NITV News.