Winners
| Year | Winning Author | Title | Senior Judge |
| 2012 | Beth Bosworth | The Source of Life and Other Stories | Sven Birkets |
| 2011 | Shannon Cain | The Necessity of Certain Behaviors | Alice Mattison |
| 2010 | Tina May Hall | The Physics of Imaginary Objects | Renata Adler |
| 2009 | Anne Sanow | Triple Time | Ann Patchett |
| 2008 | Anthony Varallo | Out Loud | Scott Turow |
| 2007 | Kirk Nesset | Paradise Road | Hilary Masters |
| 2006 | Todd James Pierce | Newsworld | Joan Didion |
| 2005 | David Harris Ebenbach | Between Camelots | Stewart O'Nan |
| 2004 | Darrell Spencer | Bring Your Legs with You | Michael Chabon |
| 2003 | Suzanne Greenberg | Speed-Walk and Other Stories | Rick Moody |
| 2002 | John Blair | American Standard | Elizabeth Hardwick |
| 2001 | Brett Ellen Block | Destination Known | C. Michael Curtis |
| 2000 | Adria Bernardi | In the Gathering Woods | Frank Conroy |
| 1999 | Lucy Honig | The Truly Needy and Other Stories | Charles Johnson |
| 1998 | Barbara Croft | Necessary Fictions | Bharati Mukherjee |
| 1997 | Katherine Vaz | Fado and Other Stories | George Garrett |
| 1996 | Edith Pearlman | Vaquita and Other Stories | Rosellen Brown |
| 1995 | Geoffrey Becker | Dangerous Men | Charles Baxter |
| 1994 | Jennifer Cornell | Departures | Alice McDermott |
| 1993 | Stewart O'Nan | In The Walled City | Tobias Wolff |
| 1992 | Jane McCafferty | Director of the World and Other Stories | John Edgar Wideman |
| 1991 | Elizabeth Graver | Have You Seen Me? | Richard Ford |
| 1990 | Rick Hillis | Limbo River | Russell Banks |
| 1989 | Maya Sonenberg | Cartographies | Robert Coover |
| 1988 | Reginald McKnight | Moustapha's Eclipse | Margaret Atwood |
| 1987 | Ellen Hunnicutt | In the Music Library | Nadine Gordimer |
| 1986 | Rick DeMarinis | Under The Wheat | Alison Lurie |
| 1985 | W. D. Wetherell | The Man Who Loved Levittown | Max Apple |
| 1984 | Randall Silvis | The Luckiest Man in the World | Joyce Carol Oates |
| 1983 | Jonathan Penner | Private Parties | Wright Morris |
| 1982 | Robley Wilson | Dancing for Men | Raymond Carver |
| 1981 | David Bosworth | The Death of Descartes | Robert Penn Warren |
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—Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (b. 1922)