2009 Award
Winner - Deborah Kay Davies, Grace, Tamar and Laszlo the Beautiful (Parthian)
The Welsh language prize was awarded to Wiliam Owen Roberts for his novel, Petrograd - published by Barddas.
The Short List
Deborah Kay Davies, Grace, Tamar and Laszlo the Beautiful (Parthian)
Gee Williams, blood etc (Parthian)
Samantha Wynne Rhydderch, Not In These Shoes (Picador Poetry)
The writers on the Welsh-language Short List were Geraint V. Jones, Hefin Wyn and Wiliam Owen Roberts.
The Long List
Deborah Kay Davies - Grace, Tamar and Lazlo the Beautiful (Parthian)
Joe Dunthorne - Submarine (Hamish Hamilton)
Matthew Francis - Mandeville (Faber and Faber)
Stephen May - TAG (Cinnamon)
Robert Minhinnick - King Driftwood (Carcanet)
Sheenagh Pugh - Long-haul Travellers (Seren)
Zoë Skoulding - Remains of a Future City (Seren)
Dai Smith - Raymond Williams: A Warrior’s Tale (Parthian)
Gee Williams - Blood etc. (Parthian)
Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch - Not in These Shoes (Picador Poetry)
The Judges
Mike Parker
Mike Parker is an experienced stand-up comedian, performance poet and compere at gigs and festival throughout Wales, Scotland and England. A travel writer, columnist, fiction writer and broadcaster, he has published his own series of travel guides and has written numerous other travel books, principally about the Celtic countries.
John Barnie
Poet and essayist John Barnie comes from Abergavenny but lived in Denmark from 1969-1982. He was the editor of Planet, The Welsh Internationalist from 1990-2006. John has published several collections of poems, mixed poems and fiction, and two collections of essays, one of which, The King of Ashes, won a Welsh Arts Council Prize for Literature in 1990.
Tiffany Atkinson
Tiffany Atkinson is a Poet, Critic, Theorist, and lecturer in English at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. She was the winner of the 2001 Academi Cardiff International Poetry Competition and her latest title Kink and Particle (Seren, 2006) won the Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Award 2007.
The Welsh-language panel were Gwyn Thomas, Luned Aaron and Derec Llwyd Morgan.