Previous recipients: 2013

Didem Caia: Vile
Carlton Courthouse

Trudy Hellier: Just perfect (Waking up dead)
Fortyfivedownstairs

Tobias Manderson-Galvin: The unknown man on Somerton Beach

Previous recipients: 2012

Margaret Cameron: Opera for a small mammal
Chamber Made Opera

Angus Cerini: Scowl

Jodi Gallagher: Prophet

Monica Raszewski: There are trees that are dancers
Carlton Courthouse

Previous recipients: 2011

Peta Brady: Strands
La Mama

Jane Miller: True love travels on a gravel road
Fortyfivedownstairs

Jane Montgomery Griffiths: A little piece for her sister

Diane Stubbings: The parricide
La Mama, VCE schools list

Previous recipients: 2010

Barry Dickins: A kind of fabulous hatred
Fortyfivedownstairs

Xenia Hanusiak: Ward B

Felix Nobis: The boy out of the country
Fortyfivedownstairs, regional tour pending

Glenn Shea: Three magpies perched in a tree
Brisbane Powerhouse

Previous recipients: 2009

Bridgette Burton: Rhonda is in therapy
Fortyfivedownstairs

Angus Cerini: Save for crying
La Mama, Victorian tour

Declan Greene: Pompeii, LA
Malthouse Theatre

Thomas Henning: Raging in the name of the dead

Previous recipients: 2008

Angela Betzien: The orphanage opera

Barry Dickins: Whiteley’s incredible blue
Fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne Festival

Lally Katz: Return to earth
Melbourne Theatre Company

Previous recipients: 2007

Penelope Bartlau: Dispatch
Fortyfivedownstairs

Aidan Fennessy: Big noise

Declan Greene: A black joy
Fortyfivedownstairs

Tom Holloway: Love my black dog (Red sky morning)
Red Stitch

Kit Lazaroo: Topsy
Fortyfivedownstairs

Glenn Perry: The children’s Bach
Malthouse Theatre

Previous recipients: 2006

Patricia Cornelius: Do not go gentle
Fortyfivedownstairs
Winner of Victorian & NSW Premier’s Literary Awards

Suzanne Ingleton: The flower of Malaya

Lachlan Philpott: Colder
The Boite Brisbane

Monica Raszewski: Egg shell

Vivienne Walshe: I shot the albatross (but I taught it how to land)

Previous recipients: 2005

Bridgette Jane Burton: Killing Jeremy
Carlton Courthouse

Darinka E Kralj: Sand in the glass

Mari Lourey: Bear witness (to my savage heart)
Fortyfivedownstairs, Victorian tour

Robert Reid: A mile in her shadow

Shane Taylor: Ghosts and lepers

Jianguo Wu: Kites of broken strings
La Mama

Previous recipients: 2004

Anthony Crowley: Shadow passion
Chapel off Chapel

Sandra Long: Duet for lovers and dreamers
Fortyfivedownstairs

Nic Velissaris: Brother boy
Carlton Courthouse

Pauline Whyman: That’s a good question

Previous recipients: 2003

David Blackman: The revisionist
Clifton Arts Centre – Richmond

Alexandra Collier: Still waiting
La Mama

Catherine Lazaroo: True adventures of a soul lost at sea

Tee O'Neill: Best possible world