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

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