The shortlists include works by award-winning author Horatio Clare, former national poet Gwyneth Lewis, and Prof M Wynn Thomas, an expert in the literature of modern Wales.
The winners will be announced in June.
The Roland Mathias Poetry Award
- All fours by Nia Davies
- The Mabinogi by Matthew Francis
- Diary of the Last Man by Robert Minhinnick
Fiction Award
- Hummingbird by Tristan Hughes
- Light Switches Are My Kryptonite by Crystal Jeans
- Bad Ideas \ Chemicals by Lloyd Markham
The Creative Non-Fiction Award
- Icebreaker by Horatio Clare
- David Jones: Engraver, Soldier, Painter, Poet by Thomas Dilworth
- All that is Wales: The Collected Essays of M. Wynn Thomas
Welsh-language Poetry Award
- Llif Coch Awst by Hywel Griffiths
- Treiglo by Gwyneth Lewis
- Caeth a Rhydd by Peredur Lynch
Welsh-language Fiction Award
- Gwales by Catrin Dafydd
- Fabula by Llyr Gwyn Lewis
- Hen Bethau Anghofiedig by Mihangel Morgan
Welsh-language Creative Non-Fiction Award
- Meddyginiaethau Gwerin Cymru by Anne Elizabeth Williams
- Blodau Cymru: Byd y Planhigion by Goronwy Wynne
- Ar Drywydd Niclas y Glais by Hefin Wyn
