(All awards are made by internal nomination through Fellowship committees.)

Hanes Award for Poetry
Kathryn Stripling Byer, 2007
Betty Adcock, 2005
R. H. W. Dillard, 2003
Rodney Jones, 2001
T. R. Hummer, 1999
Yusef Komunyakaa, 1997
Andrew Hudgins, 1995
Ellen Bryant Voigt, 1993
Robert Morgan, 1991
Kelly Cherry, 1989

Hillsdale Award for Fiction
Denise Giardina, 2007
Robert Bausch, 2005
Mary Ward Brown, 2001
Percival Everett, 1999
Bobbie Ann Mason, 1999
Lewis Nordan, 1997
William Hoffman, 1995
Josephine Humphreys, 1993
Richard Bausch, 1991
Ellen Douglas, 1989

Cecil Woods Jr. Award for Nonfiction
Roy Reed, 2007
Franklin Burroughs, 2005
Pat C. Hoy, 2003
Hal Crowther, 2001
James Everett Kibler, 1999
Bailey White, 1997
John Shelton Reed, 1995
Samuel F. Pickering, 1993

Cleanth Brooks Medal for Lifetime Achievement
Ellen Douglas, 2007
George Garrett, 2005
Horton Foote, 2003
Elizabeth Spencer, 2001
Shelby Foote, 1999
Louis D. Rubin, Jr., 1997
Lewis P. Simpson, 1995
C. Vann Woodward, 1993
Eudora Welty, 1991
John Hope Franklin, 1989

Bryan Family Foundation Award for Drama
Katori Hall, 2007
Jerome Hairston, 2005
James McLure, 2003
John Henry Redwood, 2001
Margaret Edson, 1999
Naomi Wallace, 1997
Pearl Cleage, 1995
Jim Grimsley, 1993

Robert Penn Warren Award for Fiction
Dorothy Allison, 2007
Donald Harington, 2003
Mary Hood, 2001
Barry Hannah, 1999
Allen Wier, 1997
Madison Smartt Bell, 1995
Cormac McCarthy, 1993
Lee Smith, 1991

FSW New Writing Award for Poetry
Jennifer Grotz & Charlotte Matthews, 2007
Thorpe Moeckel, 2005
Julia Johnson, 2003

James Still Award for Writing about the Appalachian South
Pamela Duncan, 2007
Ron Rash, 2005
Silas House, 2003
George Scarbrough, 2001
Charles Frazier, 1999
James Still, 1997