2024
Joint 1st: Franchesca Walker and Hannah August
3rd: Kate Duignan
Highly commended: Joan Fleming, Amelia Reynolds, Catherine Russ, Diane Brown
Commended: Julie Hill, Rebekah Galbraith, Majella Cullinane, Marilyn Wright
2023
1st: Siobhan Harvey
2nd: Tīhema Baker
Highly commended: Liz Breslin, Hannah August, Pennie Hunt, Jillian Sullivan
Commended: Sylvan Spring, Kathryn van Beek, Joseph Trinidad, Anne Marie Basquin
2022
1st: Tina Makereti
2nd: Maggie Sturgess
Highly commended: Nadine Hura, Claire Mabey, Gill James
Commended: Michael Moore-Jones, Charlotte Doyle, Jessica Ducey, Maddie Ballard
2021
1st: Andrew Dean
2nd: Claire Mabey
3rd: Susan Wardell
Highly commended: Norman Franke, Susanna Elliffe
Commended: Ethan Te Ora, Alexis O’Connell, Jayne Costelloe, Bonnie Etherington
2020
1st: A.M. McKinnon
2nd: Tan Tuck Ming
3rd equal: Anna Blair, Siobhan Harvey
Highly commended: Sarah Barnett, Shelley Burne-Field, Anna Knox, Una Cruickshank
2019
Joint 1st: Tobias Buck, Nina Mingya Powles
3rd: Sarah Harpur
4th equal: Joan Fleming, Jillian Sullivan
Highly commended: Ingrid Horrocks, Himali McInnes, Derek Schulz
2018
1st: Alice Miller
2nd: Susan Wardell
3rd: Sam Keenan
2017
Joint 1st: Laurence Fearnley, Alie Benge
Shortlisted: Ingrid Horrocks, Lynley Edmeades, Sue Wootton, Kate Camp, Mark Houlahan
2016
1st: Airini Beautrais
2nd: Michalia Arathimos
3rd: Carolyn Cossey
2015
1st: Tracey Slaughter
2nd: Phil Braithwaite
3rd: Louise Wallace
Highly commended: Therese Lloyd
2014
1st: Diana Bridge
Runners-up: Sarah Bainbridge, Simon Thomas, Scott Hamilton
2013
1st: Tim Corballis
Runners-up: Eva Ng, Maggie Rainey-Smith
2012
1st: Elizabeth Smither
Runners-up: Majella Cullinane, Jane Williamson
2011
1st: Philip Armstrong
Runner-up: Siobhan Harvey
Commended: Ruth Nichol, Raewyn Alexander, Natalie Kershaw
2010
1st: Ian Wedde
2009
1st: Ashleigh Young
2008
1st: Alice Miller, Kirsten Warner
2006
1st: Anna Sanderson
2004
1st: Martin Edmond, Tze Ming Mok
2002
1st: Patrick Evans, Kapka Kassabova
1999
1st: C.K. Stead, Peter Wells
1997
1st: Gregory O’Brien, Joris de Bres