| Prize | Year | Director | Genre | First Place | Second Place | Third Place |
| 1st | 1974-1975 | Juan Villegas | Short Story | Ron Arias | William Busic | Ramon Ortiz |
| Poetry | Rita Mendoza | Frank Lostanau | Lorenza Calvillo Schmidt | |||
| 2nd | 1975-1976 | Hector H. Orjuela | Short Story | Rosa M. Carsillo | Gary Soto | Rosaura Sanchez |
| 3rd | 1976-1977 | Alejandro Morales | Short Story | Marisela Cortez Adams | Rey Madueno | Roberto Rodriguez |
| Poetry | Alma Villanueva | Victor Manuel Valle | Carlos Lombrana | |||
| 4th | 1977-1978 | Alejandro Morales | Short Story | Rita Maria Canales | Samuel Royball | Dolores Ramos |
| Poetry | Nedra Ruiz | Javier Pacheco | Jose Alfaro | |||
| 5th | 1978-1979 | Maria Herrera-Sobek | Short Story | Helena Maria Viramontes | M.C. Peralta | Reymundo Gamboa |
| Poetry | Orlando Ramirez | Juan Felipe Herrera | Art Godinez | |||
| 6th | 1979-1980 | Alejandro Morales | Short Story | David Nava Monreal | Jesus Mena | Arnold Bojorquez |
| Poetry | Ruben Medina | Benito Pastoriza | Rosemary Susan Cadena | |||
| 7th | 1980-1981 | Seymour Menton | Short Story | Jesus Rosales | Martha Manqueros | Maria-Christina Keller |
| Poetry | Juan Manuel Bernal | Roberto Alvarez | Zamora Damacion | |||
| Pedro Gutierrez | Michael Nava | |||||
| 8th | 1981-1982 | Maria Herrera-Sobek | Short Story | Alfonso E. Nino | Adam Gettinger- Brizuela | Frank Sifuentes |
| Poetry | Arthur Valenzuela | Andres Alvarez | Barbara Brinson-Pineda | |||
| 9th | 1982-1983 | Julian Palley | Short Story | Jack Lopez | Luis J. Rodriguez | Elizabeth Noriega Stein |
| Gustavo Chavando | ||||||
| Poetry | Wilfredo Q. Castano | Kathleen J. Torres | Luis Morones Careaga | |||
| 10th | 1983-1984 | Hector H. Orjuela | Short Story | Lucha Corpi | Michael Ricardo | Patricio F. Vargas |
| Ana Maria Salazar | ||||||
| Poetry | Francisco X. Alarcon | Victor Avila | Juan Delgado | |||
| 11th | 1984-1985 | Julian Palley | Short Story | Juan Felipe Herrera | Gloria Velasquez Trevino | |
| Margarita Luna Robles | Fausto Avendano | |||||
| Poetry | Deborah Fernandez Badillo | Rosalinda Hernandez | ||||
| 12th | 1985-1986 | Julian Palley | Fiction | Hector Menez | Patricia Preciado Martin | Terri de la Pena |
| Poetry | Gustavo Segade | Carlos Lopez Dzur | Javier Barrales Pacheco | |||
| 13th | 1986-1987 | Julian Palley | Fiction | Reymundo Gamboa | Charles Ramirez Berg | Yolanda Luera |
| Jerry L. Gurule | ||||||
| Poetry | Carmen Tafolla | Jorge Antonio Renaud | Cesar A. Gonzalez-T. | |||
| Victor Carrillo | ||||||
| Theater | David Nava Monreal | Olivia Davila Flores | Carlos Morton | |||
| 14th | 1987-1988 | Juan Villegas | Prose | Silviana Wood | Ignacio Garcia | Arturo Mantecon |
| Poetry | Demetria Martinez | Rafael del Valle | Cherrie Moraga | |||
| Olivia Davila Flores | ||||||
| Theater | Alfonso Pena Ramos | |||||
| 15th | 1988-1989 | Richard Barrutia | Prose | Liliana Valenzuela | Benjamin Alire Saenz | Arturo Salcedo- Martinez |
| Poetry | Alberto Ledesma | Patricia Preciado Martin | Jose Rendon | |||
| Theater | Silviana Wood | Maria Josefina Lopez | ||||
| 16th | 1989-1990 | Richard Barrutia | Prose | Carlos Nicolas Flores | Cheta Martinez | Graciela Limon |
| Poetry | Maria Dolores Bolivar | Elba Rosario Sanchez | Atila Guerrero | |||
| Ruben Benjamin Martinez | ||||||
| Theater | David Melendez | Jose Manuel Galvan | Raquel Valle | |||
| 17th | 1990-1991 | Juan Bruce-Novoa | Novel | Manuel Ramos | Ignacio M. Garcia | Graciela Limon |
| 18th | 1991-1992 | Juan Bruce-Novoa | Short Story | Terri de la Pena | Mary Helen Ponce | Patricia Santana Bejar |
| 19th | 1992-1993 | Juan Bruce-Novoa | Poetry | Laura Fargas | ||
| 20th | 1993-1994 | Juan Bruce-Novoa | Drama | Elaine Romero | ||
| 21st | 1994-1995 | Alejandro Morales | Novel | Evangeline Blanco | Alberto A. Rios | Jo Ann Y. Hernandez |
| 22nd | 1995-1996 | Alejandro Morales | Short Story | Mike Padilla | Jo Ann Y. Hernandez | Nydia Rojas |
| 23rd | 1996-1997 | Alejandro Morales | Poetry | Andres Montoya | Antonio Salinas | Norman Antonio Zelaya |
| 24th | 1997-1998 | Alejandro Morales | Drama | Angelo Parra | Catriona Rueda 31 | Frank Canino with Yanira Contreras and Beatriz Pizano |
| 25th | 1998-1999 | Alejandro Morales | Novel | Patricia Santana | Francisco X. Stork | Veronica Gonzalez |
| 26th | 1999-2000 | Juan Bruce-Novoa | Short Story | Ramon Betancourt | Joe Jaurequi | Edgardo Vega Yunqu� |
| 27th | 2000-2001 | Juan Bruce-Novoa | Poetry | Jose T. Espinosa-Jacome | Iris Gomez | Keiselim A. Montas |
| 28th | 2001-2002 | Juan Bruce-Novoa | Drama | Elena Minor | Carlos Jerome | Evelyn Diaz Cruz |
| 29th | 2002-2003 | Juan Bruce-Novoa | Novel | JoAnn Yolanda Hernandez | Estela Bernal | Carlos Flores |
| 30th | 2003-2004 | Juan Bruce-Novoa | Short Story | Lisa Ann Hernandez | Toni Margarita Plummer | Mariana Dietl |
| 31st | 2004-2005 | Juan Bruce-Novoa | Poetry | Javier O. Huerta | Pablo Miguel Martinez | Javier Campos |
| 32nd | 2005-2006 | Juan Bruce-Novoa | Drama | Marisela Trevino Orta | Nicole Elmer | Gavin Kayner |