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 80 lines. It has a first prize of A$2,000, and the judges may award two minor prizes.[2]
The winners are announced at the Tasmanian Writers and Readers Festival in September each year.
Winners
- 2018: Damen O'Brien for On the Day You Launch
- 2017: Meredith Wattison for The Munchian O
- 2016: Kate Wellington for Correspondence and Stuart Cooke for In Memory
- 2015: Dan Disney
- 2014: Tim Thorne for Fukushima Suite and Alex Skovron for For Length of Days
- 2013: Chloe Wilson for Blackbirds en Masse and Jan Sullivan for Tour de France[3]
- 2012: Fiona Hile for Bush Poem With Subtitles David Bunn for In Dreams Let Us Not Use First Names
- 2011: Sarah Rice for Against The Grain
- 2010: Maureen O'Shaunhnessy for Thursday, July 15
- 2009: Michael Robinson for A Letter on Youth Homelessness
- 2008: Angela Malone for Drawing in the Birth Room
- 2007: Sandy Fitts for Waiting for Goya[4]
- 2006: Elizabeth Campbell for Structure of the Horse's Eye[5]
- 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[6]
- 2000: Jan Owen
- 1998: Doris Brett
- 1997: M. T. C. Cronin for The Confetti Stone
- 1996: Anthony Lawrence for The Grim Periphery
Notes
- ^ Blusterhead: Awards, Prizes Glory
- ^ The AusLit Gateway News July/August 2004
- ^ "Island Magazine, Judges Report: The Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize". Archived from the original on 2014-09-15. Retrieved 2014-09-15.
- ^ ""Results for the 2007 Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize", Island". Archived from the original on 2008-05-09. Retrieved 2009-02-10.
- ^ "The Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize 2006 Results". Island. Archived from the original on 2007-07-12. Retrieved 2007-08-13.
- ^ News from Island Magazine's David Owen, 27 November 2002
References
- The AusLit Gateway News July/August 2004 Accessed: 2007-08-03
- Blusterhead: Awards, Prizes Glory Accessed: 2007-08-03
- The Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize 2006 Results Accessed: 2007-08-03
- "News from Island Magazine's David Owen, 27 November 2002" in North of the Latte Line" Accessed: 2007-08-03