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Previous New Writers awardees
2023

Dòmhnall Eòghainn MacKinnon
Fiction and Narrative Non-Fiction (Gaelic)
2022
2021

Beth Frieden
Gaelic Poetry

Deborah Chu
Fiction and Narrative Non-Fiction

Gillian Shearer
Fiction and Narrative Non-Fiction

Nasim Rebecca Asl
Poetry

Roddy Neithercut
Gaelic Fiction

Sally Costelloe
Children's and YA

Samantha Dooey-Miles
Fiction and Narrative Non-Fiction

Tim Craven
Poetry
2020

Shirley Gillan
Fiction

Patrick James Errington
Poetry (Callan Gordon Award)

Màiri Anna NicUalraig
Gaelic Poetry

Marianne MacRae
Poetry

Andreas G. Wolff
Gaelic narrative non-fiction

Bert Thomson
Fiction
2019

Angela Drinnan
Fiction

Nick Summers
Narrative non-fiction

Henry Bell
Poetry

Bobby Finn
Children's and YA

June Graham
Gaelic Children's Fiction

Liam Alastair Crouse
Gaelic Poetry
2018

Beth Cochrane
Poetry
Mary Fitzpatrick

Fiona McKeracher
Duncan Stuart Muir
Sasha Thanisch
(Short Stories) Callan Gordon Award
2017

Sally Huband

Morag Law
Gaelic New Writers Award

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
Sarah Unwin Jones
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction

Vicky MacKenzie
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
Jane Macleod
Gaelic New Writers Award

Eoghan Stewart
Gaelic New Writers Award
2015

Declan Colgan
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
Basil Davies
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction

Aiko Greig
Poetry
Lindsay Macgregor
Poetry
Greg MacThòmais
Gaelic New Writers Award

Michael Richardson
2014

Jonathan Durie
Callan Gordon Award - Poetry

Juliette Forrest
Children's and Young Adults

Alison Gray
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction

Bridget Kursheed
Poetry

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 Sedgwick
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
Seonaidh Charity
Gaelic New Writers Award

Helen Godfrey
Children's and Young Adults
2011

Carol Farrelly
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
R.A. Martens
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction

Maureen MacLeod
Gaelic New Writers Award
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