Escalator 2023
Winners
Miriam Balanescu, Siobhan Costello, Sibi Datta, George Harrison, Richard Queensborough, Debbie Vince
Commended Writers
Emily Abdeni-Holman, Amanda Harvey. Kerry Anne Mackereth, Sue Saunders, Simone St. Rose
Escalator 2022
Winners
Melody Bowles, Ben Cartwright, Shirley Day, Isabelle Higgins, Adam Leeder, Joanna Miller, Carrie Patten, Rick Roydes, Mark Stocker, Bang Wang
Commended Writers
Celeste Goschen, Donna McCluskie, Kate Scotland, Nigel Tuck, Kaveri Ann Woodward
Escalator 2020
Winners
Paul Couch, John Down, Sarah Gillett, Monique Guz, Steven Rayner, Jenny Twomey
Shortlisted writers
Coco d’Hont, Jane Lomas, Nic Mira, Sam Reid, Peter Rose
Commended Writers
Shirley Day, Sylvie Wheatley
Escalator 2019
Winners
Mike Allen, Anni Domingo, Sam Hacking, Daniel Hickey, Rob Perry, Jon Ransom, Hannah Redding, Kellee Rich, Emily Slade, Tony Warner
Escalator 2018
Winners
Terri Armstrong, Dane Buckley, Sarah Courtauld, Sally Craythorne, Alex Ivey, Ingrid Jendrzejewski, Ellie Khojinian, Owen Nicholls, Rebecca Sollom Sunitha Webster
Escalator 2017
Winners
Lynsey Calderwood, Hazel Compton, Salli Hepworth-Smith, Linden Hibbert, Richard Lambert, Thomas Lincoln, Sally-Anne Lomas, Kate Mackay, Margaret Meyer, Emma Vandore, Ely Percy
IdeasTap Inspires 2015
Winners
Jonnie Bayfield, Ed Cottrell, Michael Donkor, Lindsey Fairweather, Maria Hummer, Alex Scarlett Mullen, Pooja Puri, Stephanie Scott , Natasha Sutton-Williams, Lauren Van Schaik Smith
Ones to Watch
Natasha Sutton-Williams (Hiive)
Escalator 2013
Winners
Megan Bradbury, Jonathan Curran, Sue Healy, Kyra Karmiloff, Ian Madden, Mary Nathan, Meghan Purvis, Linda Spurr, Lynsey White, L.E. Yates
Commended Writers
Jan Casey, Tim Clare, Alex Crisp
Escalator 2012
Winners
Rebecca Atkinson, Elaine Bishop, Armando Celayo, Guinevere Glasfurd-Brown, BTI Larsson, K.J. Packer, Teresa Rogers, Erin Soros, Shereen Tadros, Kate Worsley
‘After a six month hiatus following the end of Escalator, I started from the beginning again and completed my first finished draft in August 2014. I then submitted it to a couple of agents and was signed immediately to one of them.’
Escalator 2011
Winners
Geraldine Clarkson, Maitreyabandhu, Frank Newsum, Eileen Pun, Sarah Roby, Tom Warner
Highly commended
Helen Mort, Edward Mackay, Rachel Rooney
Escalator 2010
Winners
Deborah Arnander, Gillian Daly, Belona Greenwood, Robert Mason, Sarah-Jane Page, Dave Pescod, Linda Randall, Sarah Ridgard, Kate Swindlehurst, Martin Ungless
Highly Commended
Sally Alexander, Emma Rhind-Tutt, Ashely Stokes
Escalator 2009
Winners
Tim Clare, Helen Mort, Molly Naylor, Dean Parkin, Hannah Walker
Escalator 2008
Winners
Elizabeth Ferretti, Caroline Gilfillan, Fraser Grace, Jacqueline Jacques, Clare Jarrett, Katherine Morton, Ed Parnell, Guy Saville, Sal Sellers, Kathryn Skoyles
‘Afrika Reich did really well in hardback, selling more than 10,000 copies which makes me the 11th best selling debut of 2011. It also reached number three in Spain’s charts […] All in all, not bad for a book which the majority of publishers in this country said had no commercial appeal!’
Escalator 2007
Winners
Stephanie Cross, Laura Dietz, Ruth Dugdall, Megan Dunn, James Ferron Anderson, Judy Foreshaw, Niyati Keni, Jane Menczer, Gary O’Connor, Verity Holloway, Aliya Whiteley
Escalator 2006
Winners
Andrea Porter, Hayley Webster, Jim Pollard, Keith Tutt, Lesley Mace, Michael Hulme, Miranda Landgraf, Paddy Tarrant, Sue Welfare, Nicola Upson
Escalator 2005
Winners
Lawrence Bradby, Frank Dullaghan, Helen Ivory, Clare Jarrett, Andre Mangeot, Lorraine Mariner, Dean Parkin, Evelynn Sharp, Emma Sweeney, Louise Tondeur
