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Previous New Writers awardees
2023
![Dòmhnall Eòghainn MacKinnon 's headshot'](/uploads/store/mediaupload/8426/image/s_fit-D%C3%B2mhnallNWA23.jpg)
Dòmhnall Eòghainn MacKinnon
Fiction and Narrative Non-Fiction (Gaelic)
2022
2021
![Beth Frieden's headshot'](/uploads/store/mediaupload/5998/image/s_fit-BethFrieden.jpeg)
Beth Frieden
Gaelic Poetry
![Deborah Chu's headshot'](/uploads/store/mediaupload/5999/image/s_fit-DeborahChu.jpg)
Deborah Chu
Fiction and Narrative Non-Fiction
![Gillian Shearer's headshot'](/uploads/store/mediaupload/6000/image/s_fit-GillianShearer.jpg)
Gillian Shearer
Fiction and Narrative Non-Fiction
![Nasim Rebecca Asl's headshot'](/uploads/store/mediaupload/6003/image/s_fit-NasimRebeccaAsl.jpg)
Nasim Rebecca Asl
Poetry
![Roddy Neithercut's headshot'](/uploads/store/mediaupload/6005/image/s_fit-RNeithercut.jpg)
Roddy Neithercut
Gaelic Fiction
![Sally Costelloe's headshot'](/uploads/store/mediaupload/6006/image/s_fit-SallyCostelloe.jpg)
Sally Costelloe
Children's and YA
![Samantha Dooey-Miles's headshot'](/uploads/store/mediaupload/6087/image/s_fit-Samanthadm.jpg)
Samantha Dooey-Miles
Fiction and Narrative Non-Fiction
![Tim Craven's headshot'](/uploads/store/mediaupload/6009/image/s_fit-TimothyCraven.jpg)
Tim Craven
Poetry
2020
![Shirley Gillan's headshot'](/uploads/store/mediaupload/3933/image/s_fit-ShirleyGillan.jpg)
Shirley Gillan
Fiction
![Patrick James Errington's headshot'](/uploads/store/mediaupload/3934/image/s_fit-Patrick.jpg)
Patrick James Errington
Poetry (Callan Gordon Award)
![Màiri Anna NicUalraig's headshot'](/uploads/store/mediaupload/3935/image/s_fit-MaryAnn.jpg)
Màiri Anna NicUalraig
Gaelic Poetry
![Marianne MacRae's headshot'](/uploads/store/mediaupload/3936/image/s_fit-MarianneMacrae.jpg)
Marianne MacRae
Poetry
![Andreas G. Wolff's headshot'](/uploads/store/mediaupload/3944/image/s_fit-Andreas.jpg)
Andreas G. Wolff
Gaelic narrative non-fiction
![Bert Thomson's headshot'](/uploads/store/mediaupload/3945/image/s_fit-Bert.jpg)
Bert Thomson
Fiction
2019
![Angela Drinnan's headshot'](/uploads/store/mediaupload/2144/image/s_fit-angela.jpg)
Angela Drinnan
Fiction
![Nick Summers's headshot'](/uploads/store/mediaupload/2146/image/s_fit-nick.jpg)
Nick Summers
Narrative non-fiction
![Henry Bell's headshot'](/uploads/store/mediaupload/2150/image/s_fit-henry.jpg)
Henry Bell
Poetry
![Bobby Finn's headshot'](/uploads/store/mediaupload/2153/image/s_fit-bobby.jpg)
Bobby Finn
Children's and YA
![June Graham's headshot'](/uploads/store/mediaupload/2154/image/s_fit-june.jpg)
June Graham
Gaelic Children's Fiction
![Liam Alastair Crouse's headshot'](/uploads/store/mediaupload/2151/image/s_fit-Liam.jpg)
Liam Alastair Crouse
Gaelic Poetry
2018
Mary Fitzpatrick
![Fiona McKeracher's headshot'](/uploads/store/mediaupload/1076/image/s_fit-Fiona_profile.jpg)
Fiona McKeracher
Duncan Stuart Muir
Sasha Thanisch
(Short Stories) Callan Gordon Award
2017
![Sally Huband's headshot'](/uploads/store/mediaupload/1077/image/s_fit-Sally_Landscape.jpg)
Sally Huband
![Ciara MacLaverty's headshot'](/uploads/store/mediaupload/1774/image/s_fit-ciaramaclavertyportrait2019.jpg)
Ciara MacLaverty
Poetry
![Anna Stewart's headshot'](/uploads/store/mediaupload/1080/image/s_fit-AnnaStewart.jpg)
Anna Stewart
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
![Molly Vogel's headshot'](/uploads/store/mediaupload/1779/image/s_fit-Molly_vogel.jpg)
Molly Vogel
Poetry
2016
![Karen Ashe's headshot'](/uploads/store/mediaupload/1763/image/s_fit-KarenAshe.jpg)
Karen Ashe
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
Jen Cooper
Poetry
![Peta Freestone's headshot'](/uploads/store/mediaupload/1765/image/s_fit-PMFreestone_Web_portrait.jpg)
Peta Freestone
Children's and Young Adults
Sarah Unwin Jones
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
![Vicky MacKenzie's headshot'](/uploads/store/mediaupload/1766/image/s_fit-VictoriaMacKenzie.jpg)
Vicky MacKenzie
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
Jane Macleod
Gaelic New Writers Award
![Eoghan Stewart's headshot'](/uploads/store/mediaupload/1769/image/s_fit-Eoghan_Stewart.jpg)
Eoghan Stewart
Gaelic New Writers Award
2015
![Declan Colgan's headshot'](/uploads/store/mediaupload/1755/image/s_fit-dp_colgan_1.jpg)
Declan Colgan
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
Basil Davies
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
![Aiko Greig's headshot'](/uploads/store/mediaupload/1756/image/s_fit-AikoHarman.jpg)
Aiko Greig
Poetry
Lindsay Macgregor
Poetry
Greg MacThòmais
Gaelic New Writers Award
![Michael Richardson's headshot'](/uploads/store/mediaupload/1760/image/s_fit-Michael_Richardson.jpg)
Michael Richardson
2014
![Jonathan Durie's headshot'](/uploads/store/mediaupload/1742/image/s_fit-JonathanDurie.png)
Jonathan Durie
Callan Gordon Award - Poetry
![Juliette Forrest's headshot'](/uploads/store/mediaupload/1744/image/s_fit-JulietteForrest.jpg)
Juliette Forrest
Children's and Young Adults
![Alison Gray's headshot'](/uploads/store/mediaupload/1745/image/s_fit-alisongrey.jpg)
Alison Gray
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
![Ann Elizabeth Mackinnon's headshot'](/uploads/store/mediaupload/1748/image/s_fit-ann_mackinnon.jpg)
Ann Elizabeth Mackinnon
Poetry
![Lindsay McKrell's headshot'](/uploads/store/mediaupload/1750/image/s_fit-LindsayMcKrell7.jpg)
Lindsay McKrell
Children's and Young Adults
![Philip Murnin's headshot'](/uploads/store/mediaupload/1751/image/s_fit-philip_murnin2..jpg)
Philip Murnin
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
Steven Ritchie
Gaelic New Writers Award
![Malachy Tallack's headshot'](/uploads/store/mediaupload/1753/image/s_fit-MalachyTallack2019portrait.jpg)
Malachy Tallack
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
2013
![Graeme McCrae Burnett's headshot'](/uploads/store/mediaupload/1706/image/s_fit-GraemeMacraeBurnet2018portrait.png)
Graeme McCrae Burnett
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
![Lynsey May's headshot'](/uploads/store/mediaupload/708/image/s_fit-lynseymay.jpg)
Lynsey May
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
![Lucy Ribchester's headshot'](/uploads/store/mediaupload/1704/image/s_fit-Lucy_Ribchester.jpg)
Lucy Ribchester
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
![Catherine Simpson's headshot'](/uploads/store/mediaupload/1705/image/s_fit-catherine_simpson.jpg)
Catherine Simpson
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
![Samuel Tongue's headshot'](/uploads/store/mediaupload/1707/image/s_fit-SamuelTongue.jpg)
Samuel Tongue
Callan Gordon Award - Poetry
Seonaid Macdonald
Gaelic New Writers Award
2012
Erika Anderson
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
![Helen Sedgwick's headshot'](/uploads/store/mediaupload/1702/image/s_fit-HelenSedgwick.jpg)
Helen Sedgwick
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
Seonaidh Charity
Gaelic New Writers Award
![Helen Godfrey's headshot'](/uploads/store/mediaupload/3514/image/s_fit-helengodfreyheadshot.jpg)
Helen Godfrey
Children's and Young Adults
2011
R.A. Martens
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
Sandy NicDhomhnaill Jones
Gaelic New Writers Award
2010
Barry Gornell
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
![Kirsty Logan's headshot'](/uploads/store/mediaupload/1684/image/s_fit-KirstyLogan.jpg)
Kirsty Logan
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
Iseabail NicIlleathain
Gaelic New Writers Award
2009
Celaen Chapman
New Writers Award
![Kirstin Innes's headshot'](/uploads/store/mediaupload/1679/image/s_fit-kirstin.jpg)
Kirstin Innes
Fiction/Narrative Non-fiction
Ross McGregor
New Writers Award
Tat Usher
New Writers Award