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Prize giving a write pleasure

Written by Steven Schwartz on October 24th, 2008

It was my pleasure last night to meet the winners of the Macquarie University Vice-Chancellor’s Writing Competition for 2008 and to share in their pleasure as they received their awards.
Eleven prizes worth around $15,000 in total were presented by our various sponsors.
Competition judge Dr Willa McDonald told the audience how challenging the judging had been, […]

Macquarie writing competition: the winners

Written by Steven Schwartz on September 25th, 2008

I am pleased to announce today the winners in the various categories of the Vice-Chancellor’s Writing Competition. Congratulations to all of you – I have thoroughly enjoyed reading your essays.
There were around 160 entries into the competition, more or less evenly spread across the four categories, with the lowest number being received in the English […]