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Maureen Scott Harris : Awards and Honours


  • Drowning Lessons voted one of the four favourite Trillium winners in Open Book's "Favourite Titles from the Past 24 Years" contest, 2012
  • WildCare Tasmania Nature Writing Prize, 2009
  • The LBJ: Avian Life, Literary Arts (Reno, NV). The Sparrow Prize for Prose, 2008
  • CV2, two-day poem contest. Second prize, 2007
  • Prairie Fire, creative non-fiction contest. First prize, 2006
  • The Trillium Book Award for Poetry, Drowning Lessons, 2005
  • Arc (Ottawa), 7th Annual Poem of the Year Contest. First prize, 2002
  • Arc (Ottawa), 6th Annual Poem of the Year Contest. Second prize, 2001
  • Grain Magazine, 12th Annual Short Grain Contest, Prose Poems. Second prize, 2001
  • Scholarship for the Writing Studio (poetry) at the Banff Centre, Fall 1998.
  • Sage Hill Writing Experience, Saskatchewan. Myrna Kostash Scholarship in Creative Non-Fiction, Aug. 1997
  • CV2, poetry competition. Second prize, 1997
  • Ontario Arts Council, Writers' Reserve Grant (sponsored by Books In Canada), Jan. 1997
  • Saskatchewan Writers Guild, Colony Committee. Half the Saskatchewan Story Scholarship, Summer 1996
  • Ontario Arts Council, Writers' Reserve Grant (sponsored by Wolsak & Wynn), Fall 1995
  • Ontario Arts Council, Writers' Reserve Grant (sponsored by Brick Books), Fall 1994
  • Ontario Arts Council, Arts Writers Project Grant, March 1990
  • Governor-General's Silver Medal, University of Toronto, 1966

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