Previous CWP Writing Contest Winners
| Year | Poetry | Prose Fiction | Prose Nonfiction | Multimodal |
| 2024 | Margaret Bugingo | Anna Muharem | Bini John | |
| 2023 | Caitlin Donahue | Daniel Murphy | Amanda Peterson | Jane Cook |
| 2022 | Joan Muller |
Diane Ayer | ||
| 2021 | Julia Mancini |
Jane Cook |
Lauren Shafer |
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| 2020 | John Wetmore |
Rebecca Snay |
Moira Cassell |
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| 2019 | Amy Nocton |
Jane Cook |
Amanda Flachsbart |
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| 2018 | Joan Muller |
Sophie Buckner | Ann Policelli Cronin | |
| 2017 | David Polochanin | Shannon Bollard | Robert Pirrie | |
| 2016 | Amanda Greenwell | Susan Laurençot | Joanne Peluso | |
| 2015 | Danielle Pieratti | John Wetmore | Susan Laurençot | |
| 2014 | Amy Nocton | Charles Vousden | Mary Ellen Ellsworth | |
| 2013 | Victoria Nordlund | Kerri Brown | Bernie Schreiber | |
| 2012 | Elizabeth Amburn | Jane Cook | Jane Cook | |
| 2011 | Sheila Murphy | Eric Maroney | Lynn Frazier | |
| 2010 | Steven Straight | Jon Andersen | Erin Haddad-Null |
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| 2009 | Lynn Hoffman | Jeanette Zissell | Hannah Magnan |