2012 Literary Scholarship and Criticism: Patrick Chura (University of Akron) Thoreau the Land Surveyor, (UP Florida, 2010)
2011 Professional and pedagogical issues: Kimberly K. Emmons (Case Western Reserve University) Black Dogs and Blue Words: Depression and Gender in the Age of Self-Care, (Rutgers UP, 2010)
2010 Creative Writing: Dinty W. Moore (Ohio University) Between Panic and Desire, (University of Nebraska Press, 2008)
2009 Professional and pedagogical issues: Linda Rice (Ohio University), What Was It Like: Teaching History and Culture Through Young Adult Literature (Teachers College Press/Columbia, 2006)
2008 Literary Scholarship and Criticism: Paul Christian Jones (Ohio University), Unwelcome Voices: Subversive Fiction in the Antebellum South (University of Tennessee Press)
2007 Creative Writing: Sharona Muir (Bowling Green State University), The Book of Telling: Tracing the Secrets of My Father’s Lives (Schocken Books).
2006 Pedagogy: Editors, Jacqueline Jones Royster and Ann Marie Mann Simpkins (Ohio State University), Calling Cards: Theory and Practice in the Study of Race, Gender, and Culture
2005 Literary Scholarship and Criticism: Andrew Escobedo (Ohio University), Nationalism and Historical Loss in Renaissance England: Foxe, Dee, Spenser, Milton.
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Creative Writing: Jeff Gundy (Bluffton University), Deerflies, and Erin McGraw (Ohio State University) The Good Life.
2002 Creative Writing: Lee Martin (Ohio State University), From Our House (E. P. Dutton, 2000). Honorable Mention: Maggie Anderson (Kent State University), Windfall (Pittsburgh University Press, 2000).
1997 Pedagogy: Editors, James Phelan (Ohio State University) w/Gerald Graff, (Univ of Chicago) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Case Study in Critical Controversy (Bedford Books, 1995).
1995 Creative Writing: David Citino (Ohio State University), The Discipline: New and Selected Poems
1994 Pedagogy: Patricia Harkin (University of Toledo), Contending with Words
1993 Creative Writing: David Citino (Ohio State University), The Discipline: New and Selected Poems
1992 Pedagogy: Mary Jean Corbett (Miami University), Representing Femininity
1991 Literary Scholarship and Criticism: Louis Giannetti (Case Western Reserve University), Understanding Movies (5th ed.)
1990 Creative Writing: Elton Glasser (University of Akron), Tropical Depressions
1989 Literary Scholarship and Criticism: Barton R. Friedman (Cleveland State University), Fabricating History: English Writers of the French Revolution
1988 Creative Writing: Lee K. Abbott (Case Western Reserve University), Strangers in Paradise
1987 Literary Scholarship and Criticism: Wallace Martin (University of Toledo), Recent Theories of Narrative
1986 Creative Writing: Hollis Summers (Ohio University), Standing Room
1985 Literary Scholarship and Criticism: Michael Mott (Bowling Green State University), The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton
1984 Creative Writing: James Reiss (Miami University), Express
1983 Literary Scholarship and Criticism: Raymond E. Fitch (Ohio University), The Poison Sky: Myth and Apocalypse in Ruskin
1982 Creative Writing: Jack Matthews (Ohio University), Dubious Persuasion
1981 Literary Scholarship and Criticism: Edgar Branch (Miami University), Twain’s Early Tales and Sketches
1980 Creative Writing: Gordon Grigsby (Ohio State University), Tornado Watch
1979 Creative Writing: Philip O’Connor (Bowling Green State University), Stealing Home
Future Categories
2021: Rhetorical and Literary Scholarship and Criticism (including theory)
2020: Professional and Pedagogical Issues
2019: Creative Writing
2018: Rhetorical and Literary Scholarship and Criticism (including theory)
2017: Professional and Pedagogical Issues
2016: Creative Writing
2015: Rhetorical and Literary Scholarship and Criticism (including theory)
2014: Professional and Pedagogical Issues
2013: Creative Writing
