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2021
Winner
Luster by Raven Leilani

Shortlist
Alligator and Other Stories by Dima Alzayat
Kingdomtide by Rye Curtis
The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi
Pew by Catherine Lacey
My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell

Longlist
Antiemetic for Homesickness by Romalyn Ante
If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha
Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan
RENDANG by Will Harris
The Wild Laughter by Caoilinn Hughes
Who They Was by Gabriel Krauze
2020
Winner
Lot (Stories) by Bryan Washington

Shortlist
Surge by Jay Bernard
Fleche by Mary Jean Chan
Inland by Tea Obreht
If All the World and Love Were Young by Stephen Sexton
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
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Longlist
Exquisite Cadavers by Meena Kandasamy
Things we say in the Dark by Kirsty Logan
Black Car Burning by Helen Mort
Virtuoso by Yelena Moskovich
Stubborn Archivist by Yara Rodrigues Fowler
The Far Field by Madhuri Vijay
2019
Winner
In Our Mad And Furious City by Guy Gunaratne
 
Shortlist
Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Folk by Zoe Gilbert
Trinity by Louisa Hall
Melmoth by Sarah Perry
House of Stone by Novuyo Rosa Tshuma
 
Longlist
Hold by Michael Donkor
How the Light Gets In by Clare Fisher
Peach by Emma Glass
Normal People by Sally Rooney
Soho by Richard Scott
Eye Level by Jenny Xie
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2018
Winner
Kumukanda by Kayo Chingonyi
 
Shortlist
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria Machado
First Love by Gwendoline Riley
Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
Idaho by Emily Ruskovich
My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent
 
Longlist
Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo
When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife by Meena Kandasamy
​The Blood Miracles by Lisa McInerney
Elmet by Fiona Mozley
Attrib by Eley Williams
On Trust: A Book of Lies by James Womack
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2017
Winner
The High Places by Fiona McFarlane
 
Shortlist
The Story of a Brief Marriage by Anuk Arudpragasam
Pigeon by Alys Conran
Cain by Luke Kennard
The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
Dog Run Moon: Stories by Callan Wink
 
Longlist
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
The Fat Artist and Other Stories by Benjamin Hale
The Outside Lands by Hannah Kohler
What is Not Yours is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi
Here I Am by Jonathon Safran Foer
Cannibal by Safiya Sinclair
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2016
Winner
Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter
 
Shortlist
Pond by Claire-Louise Bennett
The Tusk that did the Damage by Tania James
Disinformation by Frances Leviston
Physical by Andrew McMillan
The Year of the Runaways by Sunjeev Sahota
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2014
Winner
To Rise Again at a Decent Hour by Joshua Ferris
 
Shortlist
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride
Snow in May by Kseniya Melnik
The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion by Kei Miller
Mametz by Owen Sheers
Mrs. Hemingway by Naomi Wood
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2013
Winner
Battleborn by Claire Vaye Watkins
 
Shortlist
Sins Of The Leopard by James Brookes
The Shape Of A Forest by Jemma L King
The Last King of Lydia by Tim Leach
Land where i flee by Prajwal Parajuly
Call It Dog by Marli Roode
Beneath The Darkening Sky by Majok Tulba
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2012
Winner
Seating Arrangements by Maggie Shipstead
 
Shortlist
The Doll Princess by Tom Benn
The White Shadow by Andrea Eames
The Spider King's Daughter by Chibundu Onuzo
Once You Break A Knuckle by DW Wilson
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2011
Winner
The Meeting Point by Lucy Caldwell
 
Shortlist
The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore by Benjamin Hale
Folk by Jacob McArthur Mooney
The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht
My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece by Annabel Pitcher
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2010
Winner
Clamor by Elyse Fenton
 
Shortlist
Watering Can by Caroline Bird
The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton
And This is True by Emily Mackie
Family Planning by Karan Mahajan
Black Mamba Boy by Nadifa Mohamed
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2008
Winner
The Boat by Nam Le
 
Shortlist
Trouble Came to the Turnip by Caroline Bird
Blood Kin by Ceridwen Dovey
Blackmoor by Edward Hogan
Children of the Revolution by Dinaw Mengestu
God's Own Country by Ross Raisin
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2006
Winner
Fresh Apples by Rachel Trezise
 
Shortlist
Where They Were Missed by Lucy Caldwell
Unfeeling by Ian Holding
To a Fault by Nick Laird
Utterly Monkey by Nick Laird
The Amnesia Clinic by James Scudamore
Outside Valentine by Liza Ward