The Adas Previous Winners
| YEAR | CATEGORY | AWARDED | TITLE | WRITER |
| 2020 | Biographical Prose | Winner | Sapling | Suzi Mezei |
| Poetry | Winner | Survival | John Bartlett | |
| Young Adas Short Story | Winner | Only If You Can Imagine It So | Elizabeth Fritsche | |
| 2019 | Biographical Prose | Winner | A Journey of the Hands | David Francis |
| Poetry | Winner | Vancouver Bird Storm | Kristen Roberts | |
| Young Adas Short Story | Winner | The Art of Being ‘Fine’ | Katrina Danial | |
| 2018 | Biographical Prose | Winner | Queen of Hearts | Anne Richardson |
| Poetry | Winner | New Year in Esperance | Helen Bradwell | |
| Young Adas Short Story | Winner | Lina | Catherine Ta | |
| 2017 | Biographical Prose | Winner | All The Wrong Things | Fikret Pajalic |
| Poetry | Winner | There Were Limits | Edward Reilly | |
| Young Adas Short Story | Winner | Freedom | Keely Brown | |
| 2016 | Biographical Prose | Winner | The Line | Rose Damon |
| Poetry | Winner | My Mother’s Mother | Bea Jones | |
| Young Adas Short Story | Winner | I’m Not Enough | Mikayla Barnes | |
| Young Adas Graphic Short Story | Winner | Defector | Hudson Jones | |
| 2015 | Biographical Prose | Winner | The Journey Home | Adam Deverell |
| Poetry | Winner | Lodger | Suzi Mezei | |
| Young Adas Short Story | Winner | Tranquillo | Amelia Dunstone | |
| Young Adas Graphic Short Story | Winner | The Great Eggscape | Anhkim Tran | |
| 2014 | Biographical Prose | Winner | Pigeon Coup | Natalie Fraser |
| Winner | Fly | Anneliese Poelsma | ||
| Poetry | Winner | At What Distance Does It Stop | Alan Keisall | |
| 2013 | Biographical Prose | Winner | The Other Ah-Por | Silk Chen |
| Poetry | Winner | Nothing Here Needs Fixing | Maxine Beneba Clarke | |
| 2012 | Biographical Prose | Winner | Davy | Helen Bradwell |
| Poetry | Winner | The Summer They Were Fragile | Rafael S.W | |
| 2011 | Biographical Prose | Joint winner | Things We Don’t Talk About | Lucia Nardo |
| Joint winner | Shades of Grey | Fikret pajalic | ||
| Poetry | Winner | Yasi | Amanda Anastasi | |
| 2010 | Biographical Prose | Winner | Winter’s Sleep | Sally Nansen |
| Poetry | Winner | unknown | Amanda Anastasi | |
| 2009 | Biographical Prose | Joint winner | 1984 | Jackie Kerin |
| Joint winner | Broken Light | Simonne Michelle-Wells | ||
| 2008 | Biographical Prose | Joint winner | Shame | Patsy Rea |
| Joint winner | Nightfall in Berlin | Anneliese Rosenmayer | ||
| Poetry | Joint winner | Jungle Menu | Vera Di Campli | |
| Joint winner | Trinity | San Vito | ||
| 2007 | Biographical Prose | Joint winner | Cow Down | Patsy Rea |
| Joint winner | Funeral Procession Through A Cornfield | Chloe Wilson | ||
| 2006 | Biographical Prose | Winner | The Backwater | Annette Signori |
| 2005 | Biographical Prose | Winner | With These Hands | Sherryl Clark |