Literary Awards

Scottish Arts Council Book Award

1991: John Burnside Common Knowledge
1992: Jackie Kay The Adoption Papers
1992: Gordon Legge In Between Talking about the Football
1992: Iain Bamforth Sons and Pioneers
1992: Stewart Conn The Luncheon of the Boating Party
1993: A. L. Kennedy Looking for the Possible Dance
1993: Don Paterson Nil Nil
1993: Carol Ann Duffy Mean Time
1993: Dilys Rose Red Tides
1993: Robert Crawford Identifying Poets
1994: A. L. Kennedy Now That You're Back
1994: W. N. Herbert Forked Tongue
1994: Shena Mackay Dunedin
1994: Irvine Welsh Trainspotting
1995: Ali Smith Free Love and Other Stories
1995: A. L. Kennedy So I Am Glad
1995: Andrew Cowan Pig
1996: Kate Clanchy Slattern
1996: W. N. Herbert Cabaret McGonagall
1996: Alan Spence
1997: William Dalrymple From the Holy Mountain: A Journey in the Shadow of Byzantium
1997: Don Paterson God's Gift to Women
1998: W. N. Herbert The Laurelude
1998: Christopher Whyte The Warlock of Strathearn
1999: A. L. Kennedy Everything You Need
1999: Kate Clanchy Samarkand
1999: Robert Crawford Spirit Machines
1999: Toni Davidson Scar Culture
1999: Don Paterson The Eyes
2000: Alan Spence
2001: Ali Smith Hotel World
2001: Christopher Whyte The Cloud Machinery
2002: Meaghan Delahunt In The Blue House
2009: Meaghan Delahunt The Red Book (shortlist)
2010: Don Paterson Rain (shortlist)
2010: John Burnside The Hunt in the Forest (shortlist)
2010: Robert Crawford The Bard: Robert Burns, a Biography (shortlist)
2010: A. L. Kennedy What Becomes (shortlist)
2010: William Dalrymple Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India (shortlist)

Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Award

2002: Ali Smith Hotel World
2002: Janice Galloway Clara (shortlist)
2002: Alison Prince Oranges and Murder
2003: William Dalrymple White Mughals
2003: Keith Gray Warehouse (shortlist)
2004: Tom Pow Landscapes and Legacies (shortlist)
2004: James Robertson Joseph Knight
2005: Kathleen Jamie The Tree House
2005: James Kelman You Have to be Careful in the Land of the Free (shortlist)
2006: Ali Smith The Accidental (shortlist)
2006: James Meek The People's Act of Love
2006: Kathleen Jamie Findings (shortlist)

Scottish Arts Council Children's Book of the Year Award

1999: J K Rowling Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2000: Julie Bertagna Soundtrack
2001: Tom Pow Who is the World For?
2004: Elizabeth Laird The Garbage King
2004: Nicola Morgan Fleshmarket (shortlist)
2005: Nicola Morgan Sleepwalking

Scottish Arts Council Poetry Award

1968: Stewart Conn Stoats in the Sunlight

Scottish Arts Council Spring Book Award

2001: Margaret Elphinstone The Sea Road

Scottish Arts Council Travel Award

1991: Margaret Elphinstone Islanders
1994: Margaret Elphinstone The Sea Road

Scottish Arts Council Writer's Bursary

1983: Aonghas Macneacail
1988: Tom Pow
1990: Margaret Elphinstone Islanders
1992: Aonghas Macneacail
1993: Margaret Elphinstone The Sea Road
1997: Des Dillon
1997: Laura Hird
1997: Margaret Elphinstone Hy Brasil
1997: Tom Pow
1997: Julie Bertagna
1998: Janet Paisley
1998: Christopher Whyte The Cloud Machinery
1999: Zoe Strachan
2000: Margaret Elphinstone Voyageurs
2001: Kirsty Gunn
2001: Janet Paisley
2001: Des Dillon
2003: Tom Pow
2003: Christopher Whyte
2003: Julie Bertagna
2005: Ewan Morrison
2005: Des Dillon
2006: Polly Clark
2006: Zoe Strachan

Scottish Arts Council/SMIT Book of the Year Award

2009: James Kelman Kieron Smith, Boy

Scottish Booktrust Best of the Decade Award

1992: Theresa Breslin Simon's Challenge

Scottish Radio Industries Club Best Play Award

1982: Stewart Conn Herman

Scottish Short Documentary Award

2009: Alan Bissett The Shutdown (shortlist)

Sefton Super Reads

2007: Matt Haig Shadow Forest

Seiun Award (Japan)

1996: Stephen Baxter Timelike Infinity (best translated novel)
1999: Stephen Baxter The Time Ships (best translated novel)
2001: Stephen Baxter The Light of Other Days (shortlist)

Seth Donaldson Memorial Award (University of East Anglia)

2000: Laura Fish