The Wainwright Prize

I've just noticed that there appears to be no thread in the group for The Wainwright Prize.

The Wainwright Prize was named after Alfred Wainwright, the author of the famous fell walking series, the Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells. Created to celebrate nature-writing and encourage exploration of the outdoors.

The shortlists for 2020 have recently been announced. I'll list those out in a separate post. However below are the previous winners and shortlists. For the longlists, please visit the Wainwright Prize website (https://wainwrightprize.com/history/).

2014 Winner
The Green Road Into Trees: A Walk Through England by Hugh Thomson

2014 Shortlist
Under Another Sky by Charlotte Higgins
Badgerlands by Patrick Barkham
Field Notes From A Hidden City by Esther Wolfson
Walking Home by Simon Armitage
The Old Ways by Robert Macfarlane

2015 Winner
Meadowland by John Lewis-Stempel

2015 Shortlist
Claxton: Field Notes From A Small Planet by Mark Cocker
H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
Rising Ground: A Search for the Spirit of Place by Philip Marsden
Running Free: A Runner's Journey Back to Nature by Richard Askwith
The Moor by William Atkins

2016 Winner
The Outrun by Amy Liptrot

2016 Shortlist
Common Ground by Rob Cowen
Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane
The Fish Ladder by Katharine Norbury
The Moth Snowstorm by Michael McCarthy
The Shepherd's Life by James Rebanks

2017 Winner
Where The Poppies Blow by John Lewis-Stempel

2017 Shortlist
Love of Country by Madeleine Bunting
The January Man by Christopher Somerville
The Otters' Tale by Simon Cooper
The Running Hare by John Lewis-Stempel
The Wild Other by Clover Stroud
Wild Kingdom by Stephen Moss

2018 Winner
The Seabird's Cry by Adam Nicholson

2018 Shortlist
The Last Wilderness by Neil Ansell
Hidden Nature by Alys Fowler
Outskirts by John Grindrod
The Dun Cow Rib by John Lister-Kaye
The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris
The Salt Path by Raynor Winn

2019 Winner
Underland by Robert Macfarlane

2019 Shortlist
The Easternmost House by Juliet Blaxland
Our Place by Mark Cocker
Out of the Woods by Luke Turner
Thinking on my Feet by Kate Humble
Time Song by Julia Blackburn
Wilding by Isabella Tree

For 2020, The Wainwright Prize has been extended to include a second category for books about global conservation and climate change.

The Wainwright Prize for UK Nature Writing:
The book should be narrative driven with a subject that must be related to nature, the outdoors or travel writing (not guidebooks) covering Great Britain and Northern Ireland as a central theme.

Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty
The Frayed Atlantic Edge by David Gange
On The Red Hill by Mike Parker
Dark, Salt, Clear by Lamorna Ash
Native: Life in a Vanishing Landscape by Patrick Laurie
Dancing with Bees by Brigit Strawbridge Howard and John Walters
Wanderland by Jini Reddy

The Wainwright Prize for Writing on Global Conservation:
The books in this category will reflect efforts in or, studies relating to conservation or climate change as it affects nature and the outdoors. They should be narrative driven and could be global in scope.

Irreplaceable by Julian Hoffman
Life Changing by Helen Pilcher
Rebirding by Benedict Macdonald
Sitopia by Carolyn Steel
What We Need To Do Now by Chris Goodall
Working With Nature by Jeremy Purseglove

The winners will be announced on 9 September 2020.

I have completed them , up to 2019, in the CK Book Awards. Do you want to do the 2020 or should I do them?

>2 geocroc: And the winners of the two 2020 Wainwright Prizes included the youngest author nominated so far, Dara McAnulty.

The Wainwright Prize for UK Nature Writing:
Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty

The Wainwright Prize for Writing on Global Conservation:
Rebirding by Benedict Macdonald

2021 winner of the UK Nature Writing Prize:
English Pastoral by James Rebanks

2021 winner of the Global Conservation and Climate Change Prize:
Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake