2021

• Winner: DM O’Connor for I Told You not to Fly so High
• Runner-up: Sean Lusk for The Hopelessness of Hope
• Shortlist
  • Maeve O’Lynn for Eventually Meeeting the Sky Somewhere
  • Anne Aylor for The House of Wild Beasts
  • Alison Littlewood for Swanskin
  • Dafydd Mills Daniel for What the Deal is

2020

• Winner: Wendy Riley for Eva at the End of the World
• Runner-up: Diana Powell for Whale Watching 
• Shortlist
  • Ani Kayode Somotchukwu for The Bird that Fluttered Free
  • Lynda Clark for Ghillie’s Mum
  • Carol Farrelly for High Water
  • Catriona Ward for The Pier at Ardentinny

2019

• Winner: Dima Alzayat for Once We Were Syrians
• Runner-up: Bunmi Ogunsiji for Blessing
• Shortlist
  • Niall Bourke for Gerardo Dreams of Chillies
  • Claire Fuller for Tiny and Pointed
  • Bruce Meyer for The Kids

2018

• Winner: Chris Connolly for The Speed of Light and How It Cannot Help Us
• Runner-up: Benjamin Myers for A Thousand Acres of English Soil
• Shortlist
  • Kirsty Logan for My Body Cannot Forget Your Body
  • Valerie O’Riordan for Livestock
  • Gabi Reigh for It Was a Very Good Year
  • Jacky Taylor for A Brief Period of Rejoicing.

2017

• Winner: Frances Thimann for Shells
• Runner-up: Becky Tipper for The Rabbit

2016

• Winner: Claire Harman for Otherwise Engaged 
• Runner-up: Jessie Greengrass for Dolphin

2015

• Winner: Maria C. McCarthy for More Katharine Than Audrey
• Runner-up: Caroline Price for Vin Rouge

2014

• Winner: Benjamin Myers for The Folk Song Singer
• Runner-up: Claire Harman for Poor Magigie Kirkpatrick

2013

• Winner: Samuel Wright for Best Friend
• Runner-up: Lucy Wood for Wisht

2011

• Winner: Emma Timpany for The Pledge
• Runner-up: Miriam Burke for A Splash of Words

2010

• Winner: Carys Davies for The Quiet
• Joint runners-up: Susannah Rickards for The Paperback Macbeth and Simon van Booy for Little Birds

2009

• Winner: Rosemary Mairs for My Father’s Hands
• Specially commended: Huw Lawrencefor Keeping On

2008

• Winner: Alison MacLeod for Dirty Weekend

2007

• Winner: Claire Keegan for The Parting Gift

2006

• Winner: Bethan Roberts for An Elephant in the Thames

2005

• Winner: Colette Paul for O Tell me the Truth About Love

2004

• Winner: Claire Keegan for Men and Women

2003 

• Winner: Judith Ravenscroft for As She Waited for Spring

2001

• Winner: Paul Blaney for Apple Tennis

1999 

• Winner: Grace Ingoldby for The Notion of Deuce

1996

• Winner: Leo Madigan for Packing for Wednesday

1994

• Winner: Janice Fox for A Good Place to Die

1992

• Winner: David Callard for Reading the Signals

1990

• Winner: Richard Austin for Sister Monica’s Last Journey

1988

• Winner: Alan Beard for Taking Doreen Out of the Sky

1986

• Winner: Lawrence Scott for The House of Funerals

1984

• Winner: Janni Howker for The Egg Man

1982

• Winner: Dermot Healy for The Tenant

1980

• Winner: Alan McConnell for The Comrades Marathon

1978

• Winner: Michael Morrissey for An Evening With Ionesco

1976

• Winner: Jackson Webb for Vassili

1974

• Winner: Neilson Graham for Anscombe

1972

• Winner: Kathleen Julian for Catch Two

1970

• Winners: A. Craig Bell for The Nest and Aileen Pennington for The Princess and the Pussy-cat

1966

• Winner: Gillian Edwards for An Evening in September

1964

• Winners: Peter Greave for The Wonderful Day and Jean Stubbs for A Child’s Four Seasons

1959

• Winner: Harold Elvin for God’s Right Hand Upon My Shoulder

1957

• Winner: E.W. Hildick for A Casual Visit

1955

• Winner: Robert Roberts for Conducted Tour

1953

• Winner: Maurice Cranston for A Visit to the Author

1951

• Winner: Fred Urquhart for The Ploughing Match

1949

• Winner: Olivia Manning for The Children

1947

• Winner: Dorothy K. Haynes for The Head

1945

• Winner: Jack Aistrop for Death In the Midst of What

1943

• Winner: Elizabeth Myers for A Well Full of Leaves