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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
CONGRATULATIONS TO Niellah Arboine — Into Each Life, Some Rain Must Fall Meg Bertera-Berwick — The Kailyards Emma Harding — Wild Track David Higgins — Minibeasts Neha Sinha — Ibis Sea Matt Sowerby — Hope is the Thing with...
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OF THE FOLLOWING Niellah Arboine — Into Each Life, Some Rain Must Fall Meg Bertera-Berwick — The Kailyards Diana Blackwood — Whose Garden Is It, Anyway? Gail Brown — Solastalgia on a Far North Beach Guinevere Clark — Old Red Steven Coombs —...
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