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- ↑ The AusLit Gateway News July/August 2004
- ↑ "Smith wins 2024 Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize". Books+Publishing. 2024-02-22. Retrieved 2024-02-23.
- ↑ "And the winners are..." Island Magazine. Retrieved 2024-02-23.
- ↑ "Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize winners: 2021/22". Island Magazine. Retrieved 2022-03-03.
- ↑ The Memory of Water by Amy Crutchfield, Winner of the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize 2020/2021
- ↑ On the Day You Launch by Damen O'Brien, Winner of the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize 2018
- ↑ "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