Previous winners
| YEAR | JUDGES’ AWARD | CHRIS CALLANDER AUDIENCE FAVOURITE AWARD |
| 2025 | Helen Maw – A Million Dreams | Helen Maw – A Million Dreams |
| 2024 | Jessica Dives – The Ballad of Cressington Ginny | Jim Pearson – Leave No One Behind |
| 2023 | Jim Pearson – The Boy With The Red Hat | Mike Ryan – Lily’s Last Waltz |
| 2022 | Christopher Gosudarski – In Sands Of Time | Mike Ryan – Palace Of The Peacock |
| 2021 | Danny Bradley – I Know Fire | Junior Dayvis – Springs A Dawn |
| 2020 | Henrio – The Adventure | John Farrington – Favourite Day |
| 2019 | Alison Benson – Song of the Liver Bird | Alison Benson – Song of the Liver Bird |
| 2018 | Rachael Jean Harris – Pegasus | Alison Benson – Crystal Ball |
| 2017 | Lydia Higham – Narcissus | Michael Aldag – These Wings |
| 2016 | Ed Jones – Love is Blind | Alison Benson – Black Pearls (Unfinished Business) |
| 2015 | Maria Silker – The Right Goodbye | Isabel Lim – Pretty Talk |
| 2014 | Jo Bywater – Riches to Rags | Kevin Eustace – Devil’s Ego John Jenkins – Put The World To Right |
| 2013 | Alex Jayne – 1969 | Alex Jayne – 1969 |
| 2012 | Vanessa Murray – I Don’t Wanna Lose You Like This | Steve Swinnerton and Dave Johnston – Face to Face |
| 2011 | Simon Madison (Silent Cities) – Brother of Fur | Rob Forest (as Rob Rivieres) – Enough is Enough |