- Judith Rodriguez Memorial Prize
- Deakin SCCA Postgraduate Publication Prize
- Peter Davis Memorial Honours Scholarship
Judith Rodriguez Memorial Prize
The Judith Rodriguez Memorial Prize is presented annually to an outstanding piece of work in fiction, poetry or creative nonfiction submitted in a third-year writing coded unit during trimester one or two. Work is nominated for the long list by relevant third-year Deakin staff and then judged by two members of the Professional and Creative Writing discipline area.
The prize provides:
The Judith Rodriguez Memorial Prize is named after distinguished and generous Australian poet, educator and human rights advocate, Judith Rodriguez (1936 – 2018). You can read more about Judith’s life and work through the International PEN obituary, here. Her passing leaves both an acknowledgement of her many achievements and sadness that we will no longer receive her fine wisdom.
Judith, one of the key initiators and mentors of Verandah, attended many launches, board meetings and student events, and her legacy will continue to live on through this prize, presented annually to third year creative writing students from the degree she did so much to shape and encourage. Past winners have been published in Verandah since 2015:
- 2024 Julia Muntoni, ‘A Poetic Biography of Lauren E. Simonutti’ (published Verandah 40)
- 2023 not awarded
- 2022 Q. Bloom, ‘Recall’ (published Verandah 38)
- 2021 Carly Rawson, ’38. You Burn Me’ (published Verandah 37)
- 2020 Shivani Prabhu, ‘The Bangalore Super-fast Express’ (published in Verandah 35 – Editors’ Choice Award)
- 2019 Maddison Brake, ‘The Analogue Supermarket’ (published Verandah 35)
- 2018 Abigail Elder, ‘We came here to find our own names’ (published Verandah 34)
- 2017 Bethany Leak, ‘The Wet’ (published Verandah 32)
- 2016 Jack Kirne, ‘What Daisy Said’ (published Verandah 31)
- 2015 Jimmy Mollison, ‘The Local’ (published Verandah 30)
Prior to 2015, the Judith Rodiguez Prize winner was published in the relevant year’s edition of Etchings, produced by Ilura Press (founding publisher the Deakin alumnus Christopher Lappas).
A dedication to Judith was published in Verandah 33.
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 The PostGraduate Publication Prize for Writing has been established by Deakin’s School of Communication and Creative Arts (SCCA), under the Verandah imprint.
Commencing in 2022, up to four winners are selected for inclusion in the annual Deakin prize anthology judged by a panel comprising staff and the postgraduate editorial interns. Individual creative works that were submitted as part of the Deakin University SCCA Creative Writing stream Honours or Masters thesis in previous years are eligible for entry.
Winning entries receive supervised professional editing from postgraduate interns and their supervisor, and ongoing editions are published and commercially available through BookPOD and as an ebook through Apple Books. Further details regarding previous years’ anthologies are available here. There is a callout for the PG Publication Prize editorial interns in June or July each year, through the Deakin WIL website.
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The late Peter Davis was a much admired colleague, respected for his commitment to professional and creative writing and his encouragement of commencing scholars. This scholarship provides acknowledgement of, and support for, students completing their honours studies within the creative writing discipline.
This scholarship is a one-off cash payment of $500 for full time Honours Creative Writing students.
Previous winners are:
Of these recipients, four have gone on to PhD including tutoring at Deakin, one has published a book and one is now working at a major publishing house as an editor.
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