2014-Lisa Scottoline
2015-Stewart O'Nan
2016-Alexander McCall Smith
2017-Joyce Carol Oates
2018-Lisa See (main event), Marie Benedict, Patrick Winn, Hilde Østby and Ylva Østby, Mary Hogan, Anna Bikont, Nikki Kapsambelis, and Maxwell King
2019-Erik Larson (main event), Heidi Sopinka, Brad Felver, Lezlie Lowe, Amy Stewart, Kathleen George, Sophie Perinot, Jack Hersch, and Stewart O'Nan
2020-Colleen Oakley, Jonathan Putnam, Mary Alice Monroe, Susan Meissner, Angie Cruz, Deesha Philyaw, Stephen Heyman, Clare Beams, Leah Hager Cohen, Douglas Cooper, and Susan Zurenda
2021-Marie Bostwick, Caroline Kim, Susan Meissner, Ethel Rohan, Cameron Barnett, Madeleine Henry, Matthew Clark Davison, Joe Okonkwo, Beth Kissileff, Kathleen W. Buechel, Ed Steck, Shaun Slifer, Tuhin Das, and Dorit Sasson
2022-Amor Towles