2022-2023: Cole Pauls
2021-2022: Rosemary Nixon
2020-2021: Cecily Nicholson
2019-2020: Melanie Little
2018-2019: Steven Ross Smith; Nasser Hussain; Gail Scott
2017-2018: Donato Mancini
2016-2017: Nino Ricci
2015-2016: Scott Chantler
2014-2015: Madeline Sonik
2013-2014: Alistair MacLeod
2012-2013: Phil Hall; Ray Robertson
2011-2012: Alan Davies
2010-2011: Rosemary Nixon
2009-2010: Terry Griggs
2008-2009: NourbeSe Philip
2007-2008: David French
2006-2007: Christopher Dewdney