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Previous New Writers awardees

2020

Shirley Gillan
Fiction
Patrick James Errington
Poetry (Callan Gordon Award)
Màiri Anna NicUalraig
Gaelic Poetry
Marianne MacRae
Poetry
Lyndsey Croal
Children's and YA
Luca Serra
Fiction
Liam Hagan
Fiction
Krishan Coupland
Children's and YA
Ioannis Kalkounos
Poetry
Eris Young
Fiction
Anne Hay
Poetry
Andreas G. Wolff
Gaelic narrative non-fiction
Bert Thomson
Fiction

2019

Angela Drinnan
Fiction
Heather Palmer
Fiction (comics)
Nick Summers
Narrative non-fiction
Ross McCleary
Fiction
Sarah Smith
Fiction
Alice Tarbuck
Poetry
Henry Bell
Poetry
Rachel Rankin
Poetry
Bobby Finn
Children's and YA
June Graham
Gaelic Children's Fiction
Sheila M. Averbuch
Children's and YA
Liam Alastair Crouse
Gaelic Poetry

2018

Aileen Ballantyne
Samantha Clark
Beth Cochrane
A. E. Daly
Mary Fitzpatrick
Nadine Aisha Jassat
Eilidh McCabe
Fiona McKeracher
Duncan Stuart Muir
Rhona Warwick

2017

Simon Brown
Lydia Harris
Sally Huband
Christine Jean Laurenson
Children's and Young Adults
Morag Law
Gaelic New Writers Award
Helen MacKenzie
Children's and Young Adults
Ciara MacLaverty
Poetry
Laura Morgan
Marion Morrison
Gaelic New Writers Award
Anna Stewart
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
Molly Vogel
Poetry
Elisabeth Ingram Wallace
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction

2016

Karen Ashe
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
Iain Bain
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
Jen Cooper
Poetry
Karyn Dougan
Callan Gordon Award - Fiction
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
Robert McGinty
Children's and Young Adults
Louise Peterkin
Poetry
Rachel Plummer
Poetry
Eoghan Stewart
Gaelic New Writers Award
Greg Whelan
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction

2015

Rachelle Atalla
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
Declan Colgan
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
Basil Davies
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
Aiko Greig
Poetry
Stephen Keeler
Poetry
Lindsay Macgregor
Poetry
Julie Martis
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
Marion Anna NicNèill
Gaelic New Writers Award
Greg MacThòmais
Gaelic New Writers Award
Michael Richardson
Children and Young Adults
Claire Squires
Children's and Young Adults
Olga Wojtas
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction

2014

Orla Broderick
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
Jonathan Durie
Callan Gordon Award - Poetry
Juliette Forrest
Children's and Young Adults
Alison Gray
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
Bridget Kursheed
Poetry
Martin MacInnes
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
Ann Elizabeth Mackinnon
Poetry
Calum Macleod
Gaelic New Writers Award
Lindsay McKrell
Children's and Young Adults
Philip Murnin
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
Steven Ritchie
Gaelic New Writers Award
Em Strang
Poetry
Malachy Tallack
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction

2013

Graeme McCrae Burnett
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
Rob Currie
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
Brian Hamill
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
Sylvia Hehir
Children's and Young Adults
Lynsey May
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
Marion McCready
Poetry
Lucy Ribchester
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
Catherine Simpson
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
Katherine Sowerby
Poetry
Samuel Tongue
Callan Gordon Award - Poetry
Seonaid Macdonald
Gaelic New Writers Award
John Urquhart
Gaelic New Writers Award
John Young
Children's and Young Adults

2012

Erika Anderson
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
Claire Askew
Poetry
Pippa Goldschmidt
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
Katy McNair
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
Andrew Sclater
Poetry
Helen Sedgwick
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
Richard Strachan
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
Seonaidh Charity
Gaelic New Writers Award
Cairistiona Stone
Gaelic New Writers Award
Helen Godfrey
Children's and Young Adults

2011

Stephen Barrett
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
Carol Farrelly
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
Susan Kemp
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
Thom Laycock
Poetry
R.A. Martens
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
Wayne Price
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
Tracey Rosenberg
Poetry
Maureen MacLeod
Gaelic New Writers Award
Sandy NicDhomhnaill Jones
Gaelic New Writers Award

2010

Krystelle Bamford
Poetry
Jane Flett
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
Roy Gill
Children's and Young Adults
Barry Gornell
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
Kirsty Logan
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
Garry Mackenzie
Poetry
Allan Radcliffe
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
Katerina Vasiliou
New Writers Award
Iseabail NicIlleathain
Gaelic New Writers Award
Niall O'Gallagher
Gaelic New Writers Award

2009

George Anderson
New Writers Award
Celaen Chapman
New Writers Award
Kirstin Innes
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
William Letford
Poetry
Ross McGregor
New Writers Award
Eve Thomson
New Writers Award
Tat Usher
New Writers Award
Nicola White
New Writers Award

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