Entries for the Bauhinia Literary Awards close July 30.

There is $1800 prize money over all, in open, regional and student short story and poetry sections.

The Idiom 23 Literary Magazine’s Bauhinia Literary Awards, run annually, have been a huge success.

Judges including Professors Hart and Shapcott, Associate Professor Wally Woods and Dr Ann-Marie Priest have commented on the excellent quality of contributors’ work.

Entry forms for the competition can be obtained from Leonie Healey, CQU Faculty of Informatics & Communication on ph: 07 4923 2516 or email: l.healey @cqu.edu.au.

Idiom 23 Literary Magazine will get a new look this year as Dr Jeannette Delamoir takes over the role as editor from Dr Geoff Danaher and founding editor Liz Huf.

Published by Central Queensland University students and staff since 1987, the magazine has become a popular choice for emerging writers, not only from the region but from all over Australia.

Submissions from as far as Ireland, Russia and USA are received regularly on an international small magazines network.

Well known Queensland writers Mark Svendsen, Jena Woodhouse, Betty Birskys and Julius Maciuel have contributed a great deal to Idiom 23 over the years.