Maureen Scott Harris : Awards and Honours

• 2009 winner of the WildCare Tasmania Nature Writing Prize
• The LBJ/Avian Life/Literary Arts Sparrow Prize for Prose, 2008
• First Prize 2007 in Prairie Fire's creative nonfiction contest for the essay "Opening the Griefcase"
• 2007 nominated for both a National Magazine Award and a Western Magazine Award, for her haibun sequence, "Reaching Eastend"
• Second Prize in CV2’s Two-Day Poem Contest, 2007
• First Prize in Prairie Fire’s Creative Non-Fiction Contest, 2006
• The Trillium Book Award for Poetry for 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
• Second Prize in Grain Magazine’s Annual Short Grain Contest, Prose Poems, 2000
• Contemporary Verse 2. Poetry competition. second prize, Jan. 1997. (Publication summer 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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