Previous winners include Toby Litt, Martin MacInnes, D. W. Wilson, and Leone Ross.
[3] The 2009 Prize also offered a bursary for study at MMU to an entrant aged 18–25, as part of the Jeffrey Wainwright Manchester Young Writer of the Year Award.
The prize-winners were announced at a ceremony held at Manchester Town Hall on 23 October 2009.
[2][8] The runners up were Peter Deadman, Vicki Jarrett, Jennifer Mills, and Alison Moore.
[10] The runners up were Nicole Cullen, Garret Freymann-Weyr, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Alex Preston, Bethany Rogers, and Judith Turner-Yamamoto.
[12] The competition then ran annually until 2021, with winners including Martin MacInnes (2014),[13][14] D.W. Wilson (2016),[15][16] and Leone Ross (2021).