| Year | Winner | Finalists | Nominating Instructor | Title of Student Work | Genre |
| 2018 | X | Elizabeth Ayre | Tempany Deckert | The Surrogate | Novel |
| 2018 | Cori Clark Nelson | Lynn Hightower | Haute Desert | Novel | |
| 2018 | Michelle Kendall | Gordon Grice | (W)retched | Memoir | |
| 2017 | X | Meghan Davis Mercer | Erika Schickel | Pretty Christian | Memoir |
| 2017 | Sunita Puri | Samantha Dunn | Impulse | Memoir | |
| 2017 | Ruth Rudnick | Barbara Abercrombie | This Only Matters to Me: Stories from My Childhood That I Never Told My Friends | Memoir | |
| 2016 | X | Elizabeth Figuls | Mark Sarvas | Marthe | Novel |
| 2016 | Blair Jockers | Lynn Hightower | Permanence | Novel | |
| 2016 | Sheri Polisini | Lynn Hightower | Miss Lotto | Novel | |
| 2015 | X | Henriette Ivanans | Jennie Nash | Every Pill Has a Story | Memoir |
| 2015 | Elle Johnson | Erika Schickel | The Officer’s Daughter | Memoir | |
| 2015 | Raluca Sanders | Erika Schickel | untitled | Memoir |
