The 2003 Adam Prize in Creative Writing has been won by Fulbright student Josh Greenberg, for his novel, The Game of Nods. The award is made annually to the best folio presented by a student in Victoria University’s MA in Creative Writing.

Professor Bill Manhire (pictured) said that Nods was an astonishing novel, and he thought the Ohio student would become a major contemporary novelist:

Back in 19th century America, Emerson wrote to the poet Walt Whitman, saying, 'I greet you at the beginning of a great career'. I think we can say exactly the same to Josh.

The inaugural winner of the Adam Prize was Catherine Chidgey in 1998.