2023
| 1st Prize | Fulgura Frango (or How to Count to Infinity) | Dominique Bernier-Cormier | |
| Honourable Mention | A Song, or Call | Lisa Martin | |
| Readers’ Choice | Nine Months, at 34 | Lianne O’Hara |
2022
| 1st Prize | or both | Morgan Christie | |
| Honourable Mention | A Thirst-bot named Istiqfar | Khashayar “Kess” Mohammadi | |
| Readers’ Choice | BRAIN SPIKE FOR THE SECOND MOUTH | Cassandra Myers |
2021
| 1st Prize | OFFERING | Cassandra Myers | |
| Honourable Mention | All Hearts Feed Horses | John Elizabeth Stintzi | |
| Readers’ Choice | Medusa Calls the Rape Crisis Line | Cassandra Myers |
2020
| 1st Prize | Change is a Slow Erosion | Leah MacLean-Evans | |
| Honourable Mention | Lake Baptiste Ungenders Me | Cassandra Myers | |
| Reader’s Choice | remedies for cross Atlantic dispersion | Melissa Davidson |
2019
| 1st Prize | The Imaging Department | Sadiqa de Meijer | |
| Honourable Mention | The Thimble’s Bucket List | Medrie Purdham | |
| Reader’s Choice | Snow Day Poem | Heather Birrell |
2018
| 1st Prize | You Are My Hiding Place | Leah Horlick | |
| Honourable Mention | How Soon, How Likely, How Severe | Shaun Robinson | |
| Reader’s Choice | Women’s work | Sarah Tsiang |
2017
| 1st Prize | Harvest Moon Lantern Festival | Kayla Czaga | |
| Honourable Mention | Breach | Blair Trewartha | |
| Reader’s Choice | Biography of a Story | Phillip Crymble |
2016
| 1st Prize | site | Doyali Islam | |
| Honourable Mention | As SpongeBob SquarePants | James Langer | |
| Reader’s Choice | In Recognition of a Quarter Century of Contribution to UMA | Curtis LeBlanc |
2015
| 1st Prize | Turing’s Time Machine | Kevin Shaw | |
| Reader’s Choice | By the time he hit the floor | Amber Homeniuk |
2014
| 1st Prize | Consider the Lilies | Kristina Bresnen | |
| Reader’s Choice | Wounded Village | Matt Jones |
2013
| 1st Prize | The Barn | Shane Neilson | |
| Reader’s Choice | Medway River, Carousel | E. Alex Pierce |
2012
| 1st Prize | The Fever Dreamer | Jacob McArthur Mooney | |
| Reader’s Choice | Going to Cape | Michael Fraser |
2011
| 1st Prize | Wash Day | Anne Marie Todkill | |
| 2nd Prize | The impassioned ex-formalist Pulitzer Prize-winning womanizing alcoholic jumps off a bridge | Maurice Mierau | |
| 3rd Prize | Please Print Clearly in Block Letters | Ian Williams | |
| Reader’s Choice | Between the Heartbeats | Barbara Pelman |
2010
| 1st Prize | New Year’s Day | Shane Neilson | |
| 2nd Prize | Chickens | Bren Simmers | |
| 3rd Prize | Fuse | Lise Gaston | |
| Reader’s Choice | Traces | Susan Braley |
2009
| 1st Prize | The Night of the Apocalypse Yahweh Tinkles the Ivories | Patricia Young | |
| 2nd Prize | In alabastrine (Edith Lake) | Susan Buis | |
| 3rd Prize | Common Loon | E. Alex Pierce | |
| Reader’s Choice | Canadian Gothic | Jim Johnstone |
2008
| 1st Prize | The Hickock Girls in the Front Pew Address the Platypus | Patricia Young | |
| 2nd Prize | Prayers for the Sick | Karen Solie | |
| 3rd Prize | Chopping Wood on Ivan’s Farm | Moez Surani | |
| Honourable Mention | excerpt from Speechless | Aurian Haller | |
| Reader’s Choice | To See You Like This | Susan Stenson |
2007
| 1st Prize | Box | Susan Elmslie | |
| 2nd Prize | Winter | Degan Davis | |
| 3rd Prize | selection from Seamless | Aurian Haller | |
| Final Judge | John Steffler |
2006
| 1st Prize | Out Walking | Bren Simmers | |
| 2nd Prize | Castor Gulo (poem of a beaver becoming a wolverine) | Michael Reynolds | |
| 3rd Prize | Water Rituals | Heidi Garnett | |
| Final Judge | Don Domanski |
2005
| 1st Prize | Old Men, Smoking | Sandra Kasturi | |
| 2nd Prize | Open My Drawers | Irene Livingston | |
| 3rd Prize | Cock Pheasant | Karen Hofmann | |
| Final Judge | Mildred Tremblay |
2004
| 1st Prize | The Crazy Maps | Susan Stenson | |
| 2nd Prize | how we keep it together | matt robinson | |
| 3rd Prize | The Walled Garden | Linda Rogers | |
| Final Judge | Lorna Crozier |
2003
| 1st Prize | Tao Hill | Harold Rhenisch | |
| 2nd Prize | Blood Opera The Raven Tango Poems | Jannie Edwards | |
| 3rd Prize | Swimming Lessons | Deanna Young | |
| Final Judge | Derek Wynand |
2002
| 1st Prize | Be the River | Maureen Scott Harris | |
| 2nd Prize | Infant Abandoned In High Park | Alison Pick | |
| 3rd Prize | Recent Sightings | Deanna Young | |
| Final Judge | Mary Dalton |
2001
| 1st Prize | How the Dying Move to Water | Joelene Heathcote | |
| 2nd Prize | The Drowned Boy | Maureen Scott Harris | |
| 3rd Prize | How to Win at Rummy | Pamela Swanigan | |
| Final Judge | Steven Heighton |
2000
| 1st Prize | God of Pockets | Sue McLeod | |
| 2nd Prize | Darkening | Sue Wheeler | |
| 3rd Prize | Particulars | Michael V. Smith | |
| Final Judge | Elizabeth Philips |
1999
| 1st Prize | Rationed | Richard Lemm | |
| 2nd Prize | Reply to the Minister of Lilies | Elizabeth Philips | |
| 3rd Prize | Myth, Ritual and the Yorkdale Cloverleaf | Jim Roberts | |
| Final Judge | Brian Bartlett |
1998
| 1st Prize | Hidden Register | Wayne Tompkins | |
| 2nd Prize | Meanwhile, in Ithaca | Anne Simpson | |
| 3rd Prize | My Son, Improvising on the Violin to Fauré | Donna Langevin | |
| Final Judge | Patricia Young |
1997
| 1st Prize | Open and Close | Marlene Cookshaw | |
| 2nd Prize | Blue Snow | Barbara Schott | |
| 3rd Prize | Adagio in G Minor | Linda Rogers | |
| Final Judge | Barry Dempster |
1996
| 1st Prize | Astonishing Creations | Mildred Tremblay | |
| 2nd Prize | Negative Space, 1980 | Sue Wheeler | |
| 3rd Prize | Good Food | Sophia Kaszuba | |
| Final Judge | Robyn Sarah |