Meet the 2024 Overall Winner!

Meet the 2024 Overall Winner!

Matthew Sowerby – Hope Is The Thing With Flippers Matt Sowerby is a writer and environmental activist from Cumbria, trying to find the words for living through a climate crisis. He was a 2018 National Youth Slam Champion and 2023 Uni-Slam Champion. He has...
Meet the Winners 2024

Meet the Winners 2024

Neha Sinha – Ibis Sea Neha Sinha is a conservation biologist based in India. She has worked for the cause of environmental conservation for several years, with a special focus on environmental policy, bird conservation, and political ecology; and is a popular...
Meet the Winners 2024

Meet the Winners 2024

David Higgins – Minibeasts David Higgins is Professor of Environmental Humanities at the University of Leeds. His academic research, teaching, and public engagement have focused on British Romanticism and, more recently, literature and environmental crisis. He...
Meet The Winners 2024

Meet The Winners 2024

Emma Harding – Wild Track Emma Harding is a writer and BBC radio producer. Her first novel The Berliners (previously Friedrichstrasse 19) was published in paperback by John Murray in February 2023. A stage play, The Thing Itself (published by Bloomsbury) was...
Meet the Winners 2024

Meet the Winners 2024

Meg Bertera-Berwick – The Kailyards Meg Bertera-Berwick is an American-born writer based in Glasgow. Her work has appeared in Vittles, Radicle, and Potluck Zine, and in 2023, the proposal for her book-in-progress Lang was shortlisted for the Nan Shepherd Prize....
Meet the Winners 2024

Meet the Winners 2024

Niellah Arboine – Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall Niellah Arboine is a writer, editor and broadcaster from South London. Her work centres on the intersections of nature, politics, culture and identity. Niellah is the former deputy editor at Where the Leaves...