Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction Recipients
1952 – Paul Green – Entire Works
1953 – Frances Gray Patton – The Finer Things of Life
Inglis Fletcher – Carolina Series – 7 Novels
1954 – Ovid W. Pierce – The Plantation
1955 – Frances Gray Patton – Good Morning, Miss Dove
1956 – Frances Gray Patton – A Piece of Luck
1957 – Doris Betts – Tall Houses in Winter
1958 – Betty Smith – Maggie-Now
1959 – Ernest Frankel – Band of Brothers
1960 – Ovid W. Pierce – On a Lonesome Porch
1961 – Frank Borden Hanes – The Fleet Rabble
1962 – Reynolds Price – A Long and Happy Life
1963 – Richard McKenna – The Sand Pebbles
1964 – John Ehle – The Land Breakers
1965 – Doris Betts – Scarlet Thread
1966 – Heather Ross Miller – Tenants of the House
1967 – John Ehle – The Road
1968 – Sylvia Wilkinson – A Killing Frost
1969 – Bynum Shaw – The Nazi Hunter
1970 – Guy Owen – Journey for Joedel
1971 – John Ehle – Time of Drums
1972 – Daphne Athas – Entering Ephesus
1973 – Fred Chappell – The Gaudy Place
1974 – Doris Betts – Beasts of the Southern Wild and Other Stories
1975 – John Ehle – Changing of the Guard
1976 – Reynolds Price – The Surface of Earth
1977 – Sylvia Wilkinson – Shadow of the Mountain
1978 – Mary Sheppard – All Angels Cry
1979 – Daphne Athas – Cora
1980 – Guy Owen – The Flim-Flam Man and Other Stories
1981 – Reynolds Price – The Source of Light
1982 – Lee Zacharias – Lessons
1983 – Lee Smith – Oral History
1984 – Reynolds Price – Private Contentment
1985 – John Ehle – Last One Home
1986 – Reynolds Price – Kate Vaiden
1987 – Marianne Gingher – Bobby Rex’s Greatest Hit
1988 – Lawrence Rudner – The Magic We Do Here
1989 – Lee Smith – Fair and Tender Ladies
1990 – Allan Gurganus – Oldest Confederate Widow Tells All
1991 – Kaye Gibbons – A Cure for Dreams
1991 – Peter Turchi – Magician
1992 – Angela Davis-Gardner – Forms of Shelter
1993 – John Russell – Favorite Sons
1994 – Michael Parker – The Geographical Cure
1995 – Tim McLaurin – Cured by Fire
1996 – G D. Gearino – What the Deaf Mute Heard
1997 – Charles Frazier – Cold Mountain
1998 – Clyde Edgerton – Where Trouble Sleeps
1999 – Charles F. Price – Freedom’s Altar
2000 – Judy Goldman – The Slow Way Back
2001 – Leah Stewart – Body of a Girl
2002 – Allan Gurganus – Practical Heart: Four Novellas
2003 – Pamela Duncan – Plant Life
2004 – Margaret Maron – Last Lessons of Summer
2005 – Lawrence Naumoff – A Southern Tragedy, in Crimson and Yellow
2006 – Ron Rash – The World Made Straight
2007 – Doug Marlette – Magic Time
2008 – Daniel Wallace – Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician
2009 – Ron Rash – Serena
2010 – Susan Kelly – By Accident
2011 – Anna Jean Mayhew – The Dry Grass of August
2012 – Charles Frazier – Nightwoods
2013 – Terry Roberts – A Short Time to Stay Here
2014 – Lee Smith – Guests on Earth
2015 – Pam Durban – Soon
2016 – Terry Roberts – That Bright Land
2017 – Danny Johnson – The Last Road Home
2018 – Wiley Cash – The Last Ballad
2019 – Lee Zacharias – Across the Great Lake
2020 – Katey Schultz – Still Come Home
2021 – Jason Mott – Hell of a Book
2022 – Valerie Nieman – In the Lonely Backwater
2023 – Marjorie Hudson – Indigo Field
2024 – David Joy – Those We Thought We Knew
2025 – Katherine Scott Crawford – The Miniaturist’s Assistant