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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
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
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