Previous winners and shortlists:
RED 19 (2024-2025): This Book Kills by Ravena Guron
Nominated:
- This Tale is Forbidden, Polly Crosby
- How Far We’ve Come, Joyce Efia Harmer
- 100 Tales from the Tokyo Ghost Café, Julian Sedgwick and Chie Kutsuwada
RED 18 (2023-2024): War of the Wind by Victoria Williamson
Nominated:
- Skin of the Sea, Natasha Bowen
- Dogs of the Deadlands, Anthony McGowan
- Stateless, Elizabeth Wein
RED 17 (2022-2023): Last One to Die by Cynthia Murphy
Nominated:
- Cardboard Cowboys, Brian Conaghan
- The Younglings: Shadows and Magic, Helen Craggs
- Needle, Patrice Lawrence
RED 16 (2021-2022): A Kind of Spark by Elle McNicoll
Nominated:
- Evernight, Ross MacKenzie
- Run, Rebel, Manjeet Mann
- Hold Back the Tide, Melinda Salisbury
RED 15 (2020-2021 award): Illegal by Eoin Colfer and Andrew Donkin
Nominated:
- Summer Bird Blue, Akemi Dawn Bowman
- A Pocketful of Stars, Aisha Bushby
- My Name’s Not Friday, Jon Walter
RED 14 (2019-2020 award): The Quiet at the End of the World by Lauren James
Nominated:
- Orphan Monster Spy, Matt Killeen
- The Closest Thing to Flying, Gill Lewis
- Outwalkers, Fiona Shaw
RED 13 (2018-2019 award): Sunflowers in February by Phyllida Shrimpton
Nominated:
- Kick, Mitch Johnson
- I am Traitor, Sif Sigmarsdottir
- Sky Thieves, Dan Walker
RED 12 (2017-2018 award): Welcome to Nowhere by Elizabeth Laird
Nominated:
- Boy X, Dan Smith
- Hell and High Water, Tanya Landman
- Rebel of the Sands, Alwyn Hamilton
RED 11 (2016-2017 award): 13 Hours by Narinder Dhami
Nominated:
- The Apple Tart of Hope, Sarah M Fitzgerald
- The Year of the Rat, Clare Furniss
- Devil You Know, Cathy MacPhail
RED 10 (2015-2016 award): Mind Blind by Lari Don
Nominated:
- Beneath, Gill Arbuthnot
- Salvage, Keren David
- Inflicted, Ria Frances
RED 9 (2014-2015 award): Raining Fire by Alan Gibbons
Nominated:
- Rat Runners, Oisin McGann
- Mosi’s War, Cathy MacPhail
- Soul Shadows, Alex Woolf
RED 8 (2013-2014 award): Slated by Teri Terry
Nominated:
- Mortal Chaos, Matt Dickinson
- Torn, David Massey
- Mr Creecher, Chris Priestly
RED 7 (2012-2013 award): An Act of Love by Alan Gibbons
Nominated:
- My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece, Annabel Pitcher
- Gladiator, Simon Scarrow
- Blood Red Road, Moira Young
RED 6 (2011-12 award): Wasted by Nicola Morgan
Nominated:
- Ausländer, Paul Dowswell
- Koh Tabu, Ann Kelley
- Black Out, Sam Mills
- Timeriders, Alex Scarrow
RED 5 (2010-11 award): Grass by Cathy MacPhail
Nominated:
- Wolfcry, Julia Golding
- Colony, J A Henderson
- Chalkline, Jane Mitchell
- Deathwatch, Nicola Morgan
RED 4 (2009-10 award): Divided City by Theresa Breslin
Nominated:
- Don’t Tell, Sandra Glover
- Beast, Ally Kennan
- Forged in the Fire, Ann Turnbull
RED 3 (2008-09 award): Worse Than Boys by Cathy MacPhail
Nominated:
- Message from Mia, Sandra Glover
- Bunker 10, J A Henderson
- Fearless, Tim Lott
- Alone on a Wide, Wide Sea, Michael Morpurgo
RED 2 (2007-08 award): Blood Ties by Sophie McKenzie
Nominated:
- The Ice Cream Con, Jimmy Docherty
- Ostrich Boys, Keith Gray
- Strangled Silence, Oisin McGann
- Spider, Linda Strachan
RED 1 (2006-07 award): Looking for JJ by Anne Cassidy
Nominated:
- The Star of Kazan, Eva Ibbotson
- Airborn, Kenneth Oppel
- Tamar, Mal Peet
- Montmorency, Eleanor Updale
