"Island" magazine runs the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize each year. The entry conditions state that submissions may only be a single poem, or linked suite of poems, not longer than 100 lines. The winner of the 2008 prize was Angela Malone for her poem "Drawing in the Birth Room".
Highly Commended were:
"Bedroom Ceiling Fan" by Mike Ladd
"Good Nighting the Mirror" by Kristen Lang
"Retrospective" by Joan Kerr
