(Sorted by contest deadline year)
Nilsen Literary Prize for a First Novel
- 2018: Robert Long Foreman, Weird Pig
- 2017: Ron A. Austin, Avery Colt Is a Snake, a Thief, a Liar
- 2016: Maureen Aitken, The Patron Saint of Lost Girls
- 2015: John Surowiecki, The Pie Man
- 2014: Anne Corbitt, Rules for Lying
- 2013: James Tate Hill, Academy Gothic
- 2012: Susan V. Meyers, Failing the Trapeze
- 2011: Tony Rogers, The Execution of Richard Sturgis, As Told by His Son, Colin
Cowles Poetry Book Prize
- 2019: Luiza Flynn-Goodlett, Look Alive
- 2018: Haesong Kwon, The People’s Field
- 2017: Emma Bolden, House Is an Enigma
- 2016: James Crews, Telling My Father
- 2015: Brad Aaron Modlin, Everyone at This Party Has Two Names
- 2014: Angie Macri, Underwater Panther