Andrej Blatnik, president of the jury, prose writer, translator, editor

Aleš Šteger, vice president, poet and prose writer
Lidija Dimkovska, poet, translator and essayist
Niko Grafenauer, poet, translator, essayist and editor
Ludwig Hartinger, translator, essayist and editor
Vesna Kondrič Horvat, associate professor of modern German literature at the University of Maribor
Tone Peršak, prose writer
Veronika Simoniti, translator and prose writer
Tomaž Šalamun, poet and translator
Špela Šramel, translator, assistant professor of Slovak literature at the University of Ljubljana
Veno Taufer, poet, translator, essayist, founding director of Vilenica
Jana Unuk, translator
Jani Virk, prose writer and translator