Vice-Chancellor's Office

The Prizes and our Sponsors

Prizes worth around $15,000 are on offer in the Macquarie University Vice-Chancellor’s Writing Competition.

We are grateful for the generosity of our sponsors in providing the prizes. We acknowledge the assistance of the following companies and organisations:

CRI, NAB, uniCom, The Co-op Bookshop, Campus Living Villages, SIBT, U@MQ and Macquarie International.

The prizes and their categories are as follows:

  • Staff prizes
    • First Prize: $3000, sponsored by NAB education
    • Second Prize: $1500 sponsored by SIBT
    • Third Prize: $500 worth of books, sponsored by The Coop Bookshop
  • Postgraduate prizes
    • First Prize: $3000 sponsored by CRI
    • Second Prize: $1500 sponsored by Campus Living Villages
    • Third Prize: $500 worth of books, sponsored by The Coop Bookshop
  • Undergraduate prizes
    • First Prize: $3000 sponsored by Unicom
    • Second Prize $1040 worth of food vouchers sponsored by U@MQ
    • Third Prize: $500 worth of books, sponsored by The Coop Bookshop
  • Prizes for undergraduate and postgraduate students whose first language is not English
    • Two prizes of $1500 each sponsored by Macquarie International.