Max Harris Literary Award
Subcategory of Awards — Australian Awards
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History

'Established in 1993 with the encouragement of acclaimed writer Max Harris, this national award acknowledges the significant contribution that poetry offers to Australian literary culture.' 

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2013

winner Homer Reith

Year: 2003

winner (Rymill Poetry) Guichen Bay, 1952, 2002 i "Moss Morgan is gone and his long narrow cutter", John Miles , 2003 single work poetry

Year: 2002

winner (Rymill Coonawarra South East Award Poetry) Old Woman Ways i "She was the last Werneke in that hamlet", John Miles , 2002 single work poetry

Year: 2001

winner On Living Alone: A Guide i "I used to be a figure, you should realise,", Kevin Murray , 2002 single work poetry
— Appears in: Island , Summer no. 88 2002; (p. 60) Geology : Poems 2005; (p. 1) The Best Australian Poems 2005 2005; (p. 122) The Blackbird Crisis and Other Poems 2005; (p. 1)
winner (Rymill Coonawarra Southeast Award Poetry) Paradise Edward Reilly , 2001 single work poetry
— Appears in: Persuasions 2001; (p. 118-120)

Year: 1998

winner (Open Poetry Section) Four Hundred Mary Wickham , single work poetry
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Works About this Award

Quality Wins Over Literary Awards Judges 1998 single work column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 28 May 1998; (p. 90)
Tamworth Writer Wins Harris's Poetry Prize 1997 single work column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 9 June 1997; (p. 29)
Reliable Look at an Unreliable Icon Chris Brice , 1993 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Advertiser Magazine , 24 April 1993; (p. 5)
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