2023
| Winner | in the country of our failures | Liam Burke | |
| Honourable Mention | the dead groundhog | Kirsten Bussière | |
| Judge | RC Weslowski |
2022
| Winner | Curfew | John Geddes | |
| Honourable Mention | “Companion Species” & “A Different Kind of Person” | Jennifer Baker | |
| Judge | Bardia Sinaee |
2021
| Winner | Kaytlyn invites me to a party | Dessa Bayrock | |
| Honourable Mention | Neither | Miriam Tepper | |
| Judge | Sheniz Janmohamed |
2020
| Winner | Mary Oliver in the Hereafter | Karen Massey | |
| Honourable Mention | What do you see? | Dessa Bayrock | |
| Judge | Susan Musgrave |
2019
| Winner | Morning Walk | Dawn Steiner | |
| Honourable Mention | light conversation | Natalie Hanna | |
| Judge | Ian LeTournea |
2018
| Winner | Our World | Deborah-Anne Tunney | |
| Honourable Mention | Ceremonies | Laurie Koensgen | |
| Judge | Canisia Lubrin |
2017
| Winner | Seeds | Conyer Clayton | |
| Honourable Mention | Beinn Bhiroach | Sarah MacDonell | |
| Judge | Micheline Mayor |
2016
| Winner | NU | Claire Farley | |
| Honourable Mention | Driving West to Say Goodbye | Susan J. Atkinson | |
| Judge | Dina Del Bucchia |
2015
| Winner | Rosa Parks | Sneha Madhavan-Reese | |
| Honourable Mention | The Celiac Reflects | Ken Victor | |
| Judge | Emily McGiffin |
2014
| Winner | Strontium 90 | Anne Marie Todkill | |
| Honourable Mention | In Stellar Parallax | Vivian Vavassis | |
| Judge | Pearl Pirie |
2013
| Winner | this is a silent | Marilyn Irwin | |
| Honourable Mention | North Channel | Mike Caesar | |
| Judge | Sue Sinclair |
2012
| Winner | Engaging the Core | Lauren Turner | |
| Judge | Sandra Ridley |
2011
| Winner | Minnowing | Jenny Haysom | |
| Judge | Paul Tyler |
2010
| Winner | Lee Krasner’s Grey Period | Robyn Jeffrey | |
| Judge | Mark Frutkin |
2009
| Winner | Crow, of the family Corvidae | Gillian Wallace | |
| Honourable Mention | The Speed Limit of Angiogenesis | Jaqueline Kawaja | |
| Judge | Peter Richardson |
2008
| Winner | Momentum | Frances Boyle | |
| Judge | Nadine McInnis |
2007
| Winner | Withdrawal | Guy Simser | |
| Honourable Mention | (W)hole | Lise Rochefort | |
| Judge | Stephen Brockwell |
2006
| Winner | Hecuba | Rhonda Douglas | |
| Honourable Mention | Five Discretions of Water | Sandra Ridley | |
| Judge | rob mclennan |
2005
| Winner | Water | Sylvia Adams | |
| Honourable Mention | Motherless | Dilys Leman | |
| Judge | Michelle Desbarats |
2004
| Winner | Betty Warrington-Kearsley reads “Onsen in Izu” | Betty Warrington-Kearsley | |
| Honourable Mention | Estate Sale | Vivian Vavassis | |
| Judge | David O’Meara |
2003
| Winner | Bistro | Michael Blouin | |
| Honourable Mention | Breakfast at the World Café | Natalie King | |
| Judge | Marianne Bluger |
2002
| Winner | A Drawing Lesson | Mary Trafford | |
| Honourable Mention | Honesty | Matthew Holmes | |
| Judge | Blaine Marchand |