2020

• Carl Merrison, The Backyard Sports Series
• Eunice Day, Rabbits by the Fence Line

The following entrants were highly commended:

• Charles Passi
• Darren Green
• Edoardo Crismani
• Nicole Jones

2019

• Lisa Fuller, Washpool
• Tania Crampton-Larking, Brightest Wild

The following entrants were highly commended:

• Susie Anderson
• Boyd Quakawoot 
• Loki Liddle
• Kodie Bedford

2018

• Lystra Bisschop, The Upwelling
• Nardi Simpson, Song of the Crocodile 

The following entrants were highly commended:

• Susie Anderson
• Kirli Saunders
• Chelinay Gates
• Sera-Lyn Terare
• Kristine Ellis

2016

• Claire Coleman, Terra Nullius  
• Dylan Coleman, Clear Water, White Death

The following entrants were highly commended:

• Ashleigh Johnstone 
• Boyd Quakawoot 
• Jeanine Leane 
• Waverley Stanley Jnr

2015

• Jannali Jones, My Father’s Shadow
• Alison Whittaker, Lemons in the Chicken Wire

2014

• Adrian Stanley, Could Be Worse
• Jane Harrison, Becoming Kirrali Lewis

2013

• Jared Thomas, Calypso Summer
• Tristan Savage, Rift Breaker
• Scott Prince and Dave Hartley, Deadly D and Justice Jones: Making the Team

2012

• Teagan Chilcott, Rise of the Fallen
• Jillian Boyd (Writer) and Tori-Jay Mordey (Illustrator), Bakir and Bi

2011

• Ali Cobby-Eckermann, Ruby Moonlight
• Sue McPherson, Grace Beside Me