Previous Louis Award Winners
Previous Chapbook Award Winners
- 2024: Jennifer Saunders, Tumor Moon
- 2023: Kathleen Fagley, Switchboard Shift
- 2022: Mark MacAllister, Quiet Men and Their Coyotes
- 2018: Sarah Carey, Accommodations
- 2017: Patty Crane, something flown
- 2016: Carla Kirchner, The Physics of Love
- 2015: Susan Gordon, There Is a Doe in the Winter Hay Field
- 2014: Raphael Helena Kosek, Rough Grace
- 2013 Editor's Choice Award: Jeanie Tomasko, (Prologue)
- 2013: Kelly Nelson, Rivers I Don't Live By
- 2012: M, To That Mythic Country Called Closure
- 2011: Susan Elbe, Where Good Swimmers Drown
- 2010: Chuck Carlise, A Broken Escalator Still Isn’t the Stairs
- 2009: Mark Neely, Four of a Kind
- 2008: Dana Elkun, Black Box Theatre as Abandoned Zoo
- 2007: Erin Malone, What Sound Does It Make
- 2006 Editor's Choice Award: Janet Norman Knox
- 2005: Jessica Goodfellow, A Pilgrim's Guide to Chaos in the Heartland
- 2005 Editor's Choice Award: Lois Marie Harrod and J. R. Thelin
- 2004: Alison Pelegrin, Squeezers
- 2003: Michelle Brooks, Such Short Supply
- 2002: Ryan G. Van Cleave, The Tallahassee Letters
- 2001: Lou Suarez, The Grape Painter