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
2012 No award
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 Lawrence for Keeping On
2008 Alison MacLeod for Dirty Weekend
2007 Claire Keegan for The Parting Gift
2006 Bethan Roberts for An Elephant in the Thames
2005 Colette Paul for O Tell me the Truth About Love
2004 Claire Keegan for Men and Women
2003 Judith Ravenscroft for As She Waited for Spring
2001 Paul Blaney for Apple Tennis
1999 Grace Ingoldby for The Notion of Deuce
1996 Leo Madigan for Packing for Wednesday
1994 Janice Fox for A Good Place to Die
1992 David Callard for Reading the Signals
1990 Richard Austin for Sister Monica’s Last Journey
1988 Alan Beard for Taking Doreen Out of the Sky
1986 Lawrence Scott for The House of Funerals
1984 Janni Howker for The Egg Man
1982 Dermot Healy for The Tenant
1980 Alan McConnell for The Comrades Marathon
1978 Michael Morrissey for An Evening With Ionesco
1976 Jackson Webb for Vassili
1974 Neilson Graham for Anscombe
1972 Kathleen Julian for Catch Two
1970 Winners: A. Craig Bell for The Nest and Aileen Pennington for The Princess and the Pussy-cat
1968 No award
1966 Gillian Edwards for An Evening in September
1964 Winners: Peter Greave for The Wonderful Day and Jean Stubbs for A Child’s Four Seasons
1963 No award
1961 No award
1959 Harold Elvin for God’s Right Hand Upon My Shoulder
1957 E.W. Hildick for A Casual Visit
1955 Robert Roberts for Conducted Tour
1953 Maurice Cranston for A Visit to the Author
1951 Fred Urquhart for The Ploughing Match
1949 Olivia Manning for The Children
1947 Dorothy K. Haynes for The Head
1945 Jack Aistrop for Death In the Midst of What
1943 Elizabeth Myers for A Well Full of Leaves