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Previous New Writers awardees
2025
2025 shortlist: Shona McCombes, Leah Westcott Graham, Patrick Romero McCafferty, Gabrielle Tse, Han Mallek
2024
2024 shortlist: Lexie Angelo, Emily Prince, Yvonne Spence, Meg Bertera-Berwick, Charles Lang, Kate Schwartz, Alyson Kissner, Sharon Boyle, Kat Connelly, Tom Bird
2023
2023 shortlist: Bethany Wren, Pauline Diamond Salim, Alice Florence Orr, Gillean McDougall, Patrick Romero McCafferty, Alyson Kissner, Tania Scott, Hannah Ekekwe, James Sinclair, Ross Crawford, Kat Connelly, Sarah Grant, Myla Corvidae, Mitchell Robertson
2022
2022 shortlist: Sonya Kunawicz, Ross Crawford, Jessica MacLennan, Rebecca Raeburn, David Linklater, Nuala Watt, Eloise Birtwhistle, Sonali Misra, Sally Hughes, Iona Ramsay
2021
2021 shortlist: Katie Ailes, Morag Smith, Anka P. Read, Sarah-Louise Kelly, Clare Robertson, Ali Taylor, Catherine Ogston
2020
2020 shortlist: Gavin Baird, Alison Bird, Sarah Macfarlane, Miranda Moore, Armarna Forbes
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