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ESU Roly Sussex Short Story Prize (2015-)
or English Speaking Union Roly Sussex Short Story Prize
Subcategory of Awards Australian Awards
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History

'The Competition is one of the most prized Literary Awards and is designed to foster original creative writing of outstanding quality, including experimental, challenging or thought provoking work.' (Source : Award website)

Notes

  • Not awarded in 2019.
  • In some parts of its website, ESU says that the award was launched in 2012, but other sources (including the ESU in press releases) puts the inaugural date at 2015 instead. No winners prior to 2015 have been traced.

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2022

winner Erica Fryberg for 'Song of the Sun and Moon'.

Year: 2021

winner Carmel Lillis for 'In the Wake of Sparrow'.

Year: 2020

winner Craig Cormick for 'The Lost Journal of Edmund Kennedy'.

Year: 2018

winner Jeanette O'Shea for 'Remember'.

Year: 2017

winner Leigh Coyle for 'Bad Blood'.
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