2021
Arnolda Dufour Bowes, 20.12m: A Short Story Collection of a Life Lived as a Road Allowance Métis
✔Silmy Abdullah, Home of the Floating Lily 
H. Felix Chau Bradley, Personal Attention Roleplay
Meg Todd, Exit Strategies
Gillian Wigmore, Night Watch: The Vet Suite
2020
Jack Wang for We Two Alone
2019
✔Zalika Reid-Benta Frying Plantain
2018
✔Carrianne Leung That Time I Loved You
2017
✔Norma Dunning Annie Muktuk and Other Stories
2016
Kris Berlin Bad Things Happen
Kerry Lee Powell Willem deKooning’s Paintbrush
Laura Trunkey Double Dutch
Lyse Champagne The Light that Remains
André Narbonne Twelve Miles to Midnight
2015
Heather O’Neill Daydreams of Angels
Andrew Forbes What You Need
Kevin Hardcastle Debris
Herard Beirne In a Time of Drought and Hunger
Hugh Graham Last Words
2014
✔Rivka Galchen American Innovations
Eliza Robertson Wallflowers
✔Mireille Silcoff Chez l’Arabe
Claire Battershill Circus
✔Janine Alyson Young Hideout Hotel
2013
Paul Carlucci The Secret Life of Fission
Astrid Blodgett You Haven’t Changed a Bit
✔Eufemia Fantetti A Recipe for Disaster & Other Unlikely Tales of Love
✔Theodora Armstrong Clear Skies, No Wind, 100% Visibility
Lisa Bird-Wilson Just Pretending
2012 Rebecca Lee Bobcat
Anton Piatigorsky The Iron Bridge
John Vigna Bull Head
Paul Marlowe Ether Frolics
✔Yasuko Thanh Floating Like the Dead
2011 ✔Ian Williams Not Anyone’s Anything
Jessica Westhead And Also Sharks
Daniel Griffin Stopping for Strangers
✔Andrew J. Borkowski Copernicus Avenue
Johanna Skibsrud This Wil Be Difficult to Explain
2010 Billie Livingston Greedy Little Eyes
Darcie Friesen Hossack Mennonites Don’t Dance
Alexander MacLeod Light Lifting
R.W. Gray Crisp
Teri Vlassopoulos Bats or Swallows
2009 Sarah Roberts Wax Boats
Deborah Willis Vanishing and Other Stories
✔Joey Comeau Overqualified (withdrawn: not technically a debut)
2008 ✔Pasha Malla The Withdrawal Method
Ian Colford Halifax for Evidence
Rebecca Rosenbum Once
Ahmad Saidullah Happiness and other Disorders
Betsy Trumpener The Butcher of Penetang
2007 Andrew Hood Pardon Our Monsters
Roberta Rees Long after Fathers
Valeria Stetson The Year I Got Impatient
Liane Keightley Seven Openings of the Head
Tom Wayman Boundary Country
2006 Nathan Selyn Indigenous Beasts
✔Vincent Lam Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures
Russell Wangersky The House of Bad Decisions
✔Anar Ali Baby Khaki’s Wings
Krista Bridge The Virgin Spy
2005 ✔Charlotte Gill Ladykiller
Craig Davidson Rust and Bone
Jacqueline Honnet Limbo
Goran Simic Yesterday’s People
Vivette Kady Most Wanted
2004 ✔David Bezmozhis Natasha and Other Stories
✔Ramona Dearing So Beautiful
Kelly Cooper Eyehill
Caroline Shepard Off Centre
✔Carrie Snyder Hair Hat
2003 Jacqueline Baker A Hard Witching and Other Stories
Jonathan Bennett Veranda People
✔Susan Rendell In the Chambers of the Sea
Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer Way Up: Stories
Cory Doctorow A Place So Foreign and 8 More
Melanie Little Confidence: Stories
2002 Lee Henderson The Broken Record Technique
Timothy Taylor Silent Cruise
Nancy Lee Dead Girls
Tamas Dobozy When X Equals Marylou
Shaena Lambert The Falling Woman
Emily Schultz Black Coffee Night
2001 ✔Gloria Sawaii A Song for Nettie Johnson
Rick Maddocks Sputnik Diner
✔Madeleine Thien Simple Recipes
Aislinn Hunter What’s Left Us
Nadine McInnes Quicksilver
Adam Lewis Schroeder Kingdom of Monkeys
2000 Barbara Lambert A Message for Mr. Lazarus
✔Ivan E. Coyote Close to Spiderman
Terence Young Rhymes with Useless
Alexandra Leggat Pull Gently, Tear Here
Annabel Lyon Oxygen
1999 Mike Barnes Aquarium
✔Elyse Gasco Can You Wave Bye-Bey, Baby?
Russell Smith Young Men
✔Zsuzsi Gartner All the Anxious Girls on Earth
Maureen Hull Righteous Living
✔Alissa York Any Given Power
1998 ✔Dennis Bock Olympia
Judith Kalman The County of Birches
Murray Logan The King of Siam
✔Anne Fleming Pool-Hopping and Other Stories
Nora Gold Marrow and Other Stories
Sally Ito Floating the Shore
1997 Curtis Gillespie The Progress of an Object in Motion
Joanne Gerber In the MIsleading Absence of Light
Janina Hornosty Snackers
✔Shree Ghatage Awake When All the World Is Asleep
David Manicom Ice in Dark Water