*2000 Donna Gershten for Kissing the Virgin’s Mouth (HarperCollins)
*2002 Gayle Brandeis for The Book of Dead Birds (HarperCollins)
*2004 Marjorie Kowalski Cole for Correcting the Landscape (HarperCollins)
*2006 Hillary Jordan for Mudbound (Algonquin Books)
*2008 Heidi W. Durrow for The Girl Who Fell From the Sky (Algonquin Books)
*2010 Naomi Benaron for Running the Rift (Algonquin Books)
2012 Susan Nussbaum for Good Kings Bad Kings (Algonquin Books)
2014 Ron Childress for And West Is West (Algonquin Books)
2016 Lisa Ko for The Leavers (Algonquin Books)
2019 Katherine Seligman for At the Edge of the Haight (Algonquin Books)
(*Prior to 2012, the Bellwether Prize was adminstered independently from the PEN Literary Awards.)
