Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize
The Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize (also known as the Gwen Harwood Memorial Poetry Prize) was created in 1996 in memory of the Tasmanian poet, Gwen Harwood. The prize is run by Island Magazine[1] and is awarded to a single poem or a linked suite of poems not longer than 100 lines. It has a first prize of A$1,500, and the judges may award three minor prizes.[2]
Winners
- 2008: Angela Malone for Drawing in the Birth Room
- 2007: Sandy Fitts for Waiting for Goya[3]
- 2006: Elizabeth Campbell for Structure of the Horse's Eye[4]
- 2005: Mark Tredinnick
- 2004: Lesley Walter for Hyphenated Lives
- 2003: Kathryn Lomer
- 2002: Held over to be part of Tasmania Pacific Region Prize awards day[5]
- 2000: Jan Owen
- 1998: Doris Brett
- 1997: M. T. C. Cronin for The Confetti Stone
- 1996: Anthony Lawrence for The Grim Periphery
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