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Previous New Writers awardees
2019
2018
Mary Fitzpatrick
Fiona McKeracher
Duncan Stuart Muir
2017
Sally Huband
Ciara MacLaverty
Poetry
Anna Stewart
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
Molly Vogel
Poetry
2016
Karen Ashe
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
Jen Cooper
Poetry
Peta Freestone
Children's and Young Adults
Vicky MacKenzie
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
Jane Macleod
Gaelic New Writers Award
2015
Declan Colgan
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
Basil Davies
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
Greg MacThòmais
Gaelic New Writers Award
2014
Orla Broderick
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
Juliette Forrest
Children's and Young Adults
Alison Gray
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
Ann Elizabeth Mackinnon
Poetry
Lindsay McKrell
Children's and Young Adults
Philip Murnin
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
Steven Ritchie
Gaelic New Writers Award
Malachy Tallack
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
2013
Graeme McCrae Burnett
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
Lynsey May
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
Lucy Ribchester
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
Catherine Simpson
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
Samuel Tongue
Callan Gordon Award - Poetry
Seonaid Macdonald
Gaelic New Writers Award
2012
Erika Anderson
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
Helen Godfrey
Children's and Young Adults
Pippa Goldschmidt
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
Helen Sedgwick
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
Seonaidh Charity
Gaelic New Writers Award
2011
R.A. Martens
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
Sandy NicDhomhnaill Jones
Gaelic New Writers Award
2010
Barry Gornell
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
Kirsty Logan
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
Iseabail NicIlleathain
Gaelic New Writers Award
2009
Celaen Chapman
New Writers Award
Kirstin Innes
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
Ross McGregor
New Writers Award
Tat Usher
New Writers Award