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 —...
Ten Free Entries! We are keen to acknowledge those writers for whom the fee of £15 is a bar to entry. So we are proud to announce that BOOTHS, grocers since 1847, have offered to sponsor 10 entries. Are you hesitating to enter the prize because it is yet another...
NEHA SINHA – City of Covid-Trees Neha Sinha is an award-winning conservation biologist. Neha heads Conservation and Policy at Bombay Natural History Society, BirdLife in India. She was chosen for the Australia-India Youth Dialogue as a 2022 delegate and was...
JOANNA POCOCK – None of This Should Be Here Joanna Pocock is a writer currently living in London. It has since been published in the UK, US and Canada, and has been translated into French and Spanish. Her essay ‘None of this should be here’ is an extract from...
NICOLA PITCHFORD – A Parable of Arable Land Nicola Pitchford is a British immigrant who lives in Marin County, CA. She has published poetry and literary criticism and studied at Pomona College, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the 2018 Rural Writing...
BEN CRANE – Last Flight of the Goshawk? Ben Crane is a falconer, artist and a self-taught writer. He has travelled extensively learning how diverse cultures work with birds of prey in their localised environment. His writing and photography have appeared in a...
LAURA COLEMAN – The Fence Laura Coleman is a writer and an artist. She has lived and worked in Bolivia for over a decade, caring for rescued wild animals with the NGO Comunidad Inti Wara Yassi. She is also the founder of ONCA, a Brighton-based arts charity that...
JENNY CHAMARETTE – Q is for Garden Jenny Chamarette is a writer, mentor, researcher and curator/artist living in South East London, where she works out of the studio at the foot of her garden. She is currently a Senior Research Fellow in Art at the University of...
Thank you to everyone who has shared with us in this endeavour so far. We know it is always said on these occasions that the standard was high and the choice difficult, but it was true. All the readers and judges remarked on this independently of each other, and all...
