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 MagazineBlusterhead: Awards, Prizes Glory and is awarded to a single poem or a linked suite of poems. It has a first prize of A$2,000, and the judges may award two minor prizes.The AusLit Gateway News July/August 2004
Winners 2025: Georgina Woods for Augury: Sea surface temperature charts 2024: Yasmin Smith for The Burial Feathers 2023: Brigid Coleridge for Day 210 2021/2022: Stuart Barnes for Sestina after B. Carlisle 2020/2021: Amy Crutchfield for The Memory of WaterThe Memory of Water by Amy Crutchfield, Winner of the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize 2020/2021 2018: Damen O'Brien for On the Day You LaunchOn the Day You Launch by Damen O'Brien, Winner of the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize 2018 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 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'Shaughnessy 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 2006: Elizabeth Campbell for Structure of the Horse's Eye 2005: Mark Tredinnick 2004: Lesley Walter for Hyphenated Lives 2003: Kathryn Lomer 2002: Held over to be part of Tasmania Pacific Region Prize awards dayNews from Island Magazine's David Owen, 27 November 2002 2000: Jan Owen 1998: Doris Brett 1997: M. T. C. Cronin for The Confetti Stone 1996: Anthony Lawrence for The Grim Periphery
References
External links 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