2025
| Winner | The Smoke Signals a Migrant Returning | Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan | |
| Judge | Michael V Smith |
2024
| Winner | 24 juillet | Latif Askia Ba | |
| Judge | Susan Holbrook |
2023
| Winner | Jacob’s Ladder | Frank Klaassen | |
| Judge | Tolu Oloruntoba |
2022
| Winner | As the hart panteth after the water brooks… | Luke Hathaway | |
| Judge | Brecken Hancock |
2021
| Winner | Inevitable Pain | Mosab Alnomairy | |
| Judge | Conyer Clayton |
2020
| Winner | An Internment | Sachiko Murakami | |
| Judge | Puneet Dutt |
2019
| Winner | Afterward | Alycia Pirmohamed | |
| Judge | Kim Fahner |
2018
| Winner | Charlie Horse | Hanako Masutani | |
| Judge | Renee Sarojini Saklikar |
2017
| Winner | Literally | Tom Wayman | |
| Judge | Faizal Deen |
2016
| Winner | Your Mother’s a Regular Mom-Type” / “Hey, Your Dad’s a Regular Guy | Matthew Walsh |
2015
| Winner | Ballad of Blood Hotel | Stevie Howell |
2014
| Winner | The presence of similarities | Ken Belford |
2013
| Winner | Vancouver Aquarium Secret | Barbara Nickel | |
| Judge | Chris Jennings |
2012
| Winner | Little Animals | Bruce Taylor | |
| Judge | David Seymour |
2011
| Winner | In the Event of Moon Disaster | David O’Meara | |
| Judge | Elizabeth Bachinsky |
2010
| Winner | The Night of the Apocalypse Yahweh Tinkles the Ivories | Patricia Young | |
| Judge | Mary Dalton |
2009
| Winner | Penelope in Heavy Weather | Luke Hathaway | |
| Judge | David O’Meara |
2008
| Winner | Up Near Wawa | Peter Norman | |
| Judge | Joan Crate |
2007
| Winner | Asleep | Michael Trussler | |
| Judge | Anne Simpson |
2006
| Winner | Moody Weather | Elizabeth Brewster | |
| Judge | Molly Peacock |
2005
| Winner | Brave | Terence Young | |
| Judge | Di Brandt |
2004
| Winner | What Separates Us From the Birds | Mark Sinnett | |
| Judge | Gary Geddes |
2003
| Winner | Interviews at the Elders’ Palace | Margo Button | |
| Judge | Heather Spears |
2002
| Winner | Wearing Nothing But the Midnight Sun | Neile Graham | |
| Judge | Douglas Lockhead |
2001
| Winner | Breaking a Plate | Roger Nash | |
| Judge | Elizabeth Brewster |
2000
| Winner | On Reincarnation | Elizabeth Brewster | |
| Judge | Al Purdy |
1999
| Winner | Hidden Register | Wayne Tompkins | |
| Judge | Douglas Lockhead |
1998
| Winner | He Is | Gregory Scofield | |
| Judge | Claire Harris |
1997
| Winner | Circumstantial Evidence of the Visitation of Angels | Roger Nash | |
| Judge | D. G. Jones |
1996
| Winner | Selections from”Crown of Roses” | Mary di Michele | |
| Judge | P. K. Page |
1995
| Winner | Unconditional Love | Barry Dempster | |
| Judge | Don McKay |
1994
| Winner | Halls | Erin Mouré | |
| Judge | Phyllis Webb |
1993
| Winner | Do You Live Alone? | Elisabeth Harvor | |
| Judge | Anne Szumigalski |
1992
| Winner | Bloom, Rain | Elisabeth Harvor | |
| Judge | Don Coles |
1991
| Winner | Talking with the Wind | Harold Rhenisch | |
| Judge | Robin Skelton |