2021 Longlist Alligator and Other Stories by Dima Alzayat Antiemetic for Homesickness by Romalyn Ante If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha Kingdomtide by Rye Curtis Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi RENDANG by Will Harris The Wild Laughter by Caoilinn Hughes Who They Was by Gabriel Krauze Pew by Catherine Lacey Luster by Raven Leilani My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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