The Wainwright Prize is a literary prize awarded annually for the best work of general outdoors, nature and UK-based travel writing. In 2020 it was split into the Wainwright Prize for UK nature writing and the Wainwright Prize for writing on global conservation, with separate longlists and judging panels. It is restricted to books published in the UK.[1] For three years from 2022 the prizes will be sponsored by Kendal paper-makers James Cropper plc and known as the James Cropper Wainwright Prizes.[2] A prize for writing for children was introduced in 2022, the three prizes being the James Cropper Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing, the James Cropper Wainwright Prize for Writing on Conservation and the James Cropper Wainwright Prize for Children's Writing on Nature and Conservation.[3]

The prize celebrates the legacy of British guidebook writer Alfred Wainwright. The prize was established by Frances Lincoln Publishers and The Wainwright Society, in association with The National Trust. It was originally sponsored by Thwaites Brewery, who produced a beer called Wainwright Ale[4] and was later sponsored by Marston's Brewery, who took over Thwaites' production of Wainwright Golden Beer, and sometimes referred to as The Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize.[5] In 2020 the prize was no longer sponsored, but was supported by an anonymous benefactor and was "in association with the National Trust".[1] In 2021 the Kendal papermakers James Cropper plc became the prize's "headline sponsors" in a three-year agreement.[6]

The prize was first awarded in 2014 to Hugh Thomson for his The Green Road Into The Trees: A Walk through England. The winner received a cheque for £5,000. With the introduction of two prizes in 2020 the prize money was shared between the two winners,[1] and in 2022 it was increased to £7,500 to be shared between the three winners.[3]

Winners and shortlisted titles

In the following table, the years correspond to the date of the ceremony, rather than when the book was first published. Entries with a blue background and an asterisk (*) next to the writer's name have won the award; those with a pale background are the other nominees on the shortlist.

  *   Winners

Year Author Book Publisher Notes
2014[7] Hugh Thomson *The Green Road Into The Trees: A Walk through England
Simon ArmitageWalking Home
Patrick BarkhamBadgerlands
Charlotte HigginsUnder Another Sky
Robert MacfarlaneThe Old Ways
Esther WoolfsonField Notes from a Hidden City
2015[8] John Lewis-Stempel *Meadowland[9]
Richard AskwithRunning Free: A Runner's Journey Back to Nature
William Atkins The Moor
Mark CockerClaxton: Field Notes from a Small Planet
Helen MacdonaldH is for Hawk
Philip Marsden Rising Ground: A Search for the Spirit of Place
2016[10] Amy Liptrot *The Outrun[11]
Rob CowenCommon Ground
Robert MacfarlaneLandmarks
Michael McCarthyThe Moth Snowstorm
Katharine NorburyThe Fish Ladder
James RebanksThe Shepherd's Life
2017[12] John Lewis-Stempel *Where Poppies Blow
Madeleine Bunting Love of Country
Simon Cooper The Otters' Tale
John Lewis-Stempel The Running Hare
Stephen Moss Wild Kingdom
Christopher Somerville The January Man
Clover StroudThe Wild Other
2018[13] Adam Nicolson *The Seabird's Cry
Neil AnsellThe Last Wilderness
Alys FowlerHidden Nature
John GrindrodOutskirts
John Lister-KayeThe Dun Cow Rib
Robert Macfarlane and Jackie MorrisThe Lost Words
Raynor WinnThe Salt Path
2019[14] Robert Macfarlane  *Underland
Julia BlackburnTime Song
Juliet BlaxlandThe Easternmost House
Mark Cocker Our Place
Kate Humble Thinking on My Feet
Isabella TreeWilding
Luke Turner Out of the Woods
2020:
Global
Cons'n
[15]
Benedict Macdonald *Rebirding: Restoring Britain's Wildlife
Chris GoodallWhat We Need to Do Now
Julian HoffmanIrreplaceable
Helen PilcherLife Changing: How Humans are Altering Life on Earth
Jeremy Purseglove Working With Nature
Carolyn SteelSitopia: How Food Can Save the World
2020:
UK
Nature
Writing
[16]
Dara McAnulty *Diary of a Young Naturalist
Lamorna AshDark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town
David GangeThe Frayed Atlantic Edge
Patrick LaurieNative: Life in a Vanishing Landscape
Mike ParkerOn the Red Hill
Jini ReddyWanderland: A Search for Magic in the Landscape
Brigit Strawbridge Howard Dancing with Bees: A Journey Back to Nature
2021:
Global
Cons'n
[17]
Merlin Sheldrake *Entangled Life
David AttenboroughA Life on Our Planet
Cal Flyn Islands of Abandonment
Rebecca Giggs Fathoms: The World in the Whale
Dieter Helm Net Zero: How we Stop Causing Climate Change
Elizabeth KolbertUnder a White Sky
2021:
UK
Nature
Writing
[17]
James Rebanks *English Pastoral: An Inheritance
Charles FosterThe Screaming Sky
Charlie GilmourFeatherhood
Marc HamerSeed to Dust
Kerri ní DochartaighThin Places
Anita Sethi I belong here
Raynor Winn The Wild Silence
2022:
Nature
Writing
[3][18]
James Aldred *Goshawk Summer: A New Forest Season Unlike Any OtherElliott & Thompson
Nicola ChesterOn Gallows Down: Place, Protest and BelongingChelsea Green
Matthew GreenShadowlands: A Journey Through Lost BritainFaber & Faber
Amy Liptrot The Instant Canongate
Anna Fleming Time on Rock: A Climber’s Route into the MountainsCanongate
Thomas HallidayOtherlands: A World in the MakingAllen Lane
2022:
Writing on
Conservation
[3][18]
Dan Saladino  *Eating to Extinction: The World’s Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save ThemJonathan Cape
Alice BellOur Biggest Experiment: A History of the Climate CrisisBloomsbury Sigma
Dave Goulson Silent Earth: Averting the Insect ApocalypseVintage
Oliver MilmanThe Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires that Run the WorldAtlantic Books
George MonbiotRegenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the PlanetAllen Lane
Ben RawlanceThe Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth Jonathan Cape
Lee Schofield Wild Fell: Fighting for Nature on a Lake District Hill FarmDoubleday
2022:Children's
Writing on
Nature and
Conservation[3][18]
Rob Sears  *The Biggest Footprint: Eight billion humans. One Clumsy GiantCanongateillustrated by Tom Sears
Katya BalenOctober, OctoberBloomsbury Children's Books
Nicola DaviesOne World: 24 Hours on Planet Earth Walker Books
Kiran Millwood HargraveJulia and the SharkOrion Children’s Booksillustrated by Tom de Freston
Melissa Harrison By Rowan and YewChicken Houseillustrated by Angela Harding
Ben LerwillAround the World in 80 TreesWelbeckillustrated by Kaja Kajfež
Dara McAnulty Wild Child: A Journey Through NatureMacmillan Children's Booksillustrated by Barry Falls
2023:
Nature
Writing
[19][20]
Amy-Jane Beer *The Flow: Rivers, Water and WildnessBloomsbury
Elizabeth-Jane BurnettTwelve Words for MossAllen Lane
Stephen MossTen Birds that Changed the WorldFaber
Dorthe NorsA Line in the World: A Year on the North Sea CoastPushkintranslated by Caroline Waight
Katherine RundellThe Golden Mole: and Other Living TreasureFaberillustrated by Talya Baldwin
Amanda ThomsonBelonging: Natural histories of place, identity and homeCanongate
2023:
Writing on
Conservation
[19][20]
Guy Shrubsole *The Lost Rainforests of BritainWilliam Collins
Keggie CarewBeastly: A New History of Animals and UsCanongate
Charles CloverRewilding the Sea: How to Save Our OceansEbury
Sarah Langford Rooted: How Regenerative Farming Can Change the WorldViking
Fiona Mathews and Tim KendallBlack Ops and Beaver Bombing: Adventures with Britain’s Wild MammalsOneworld
Gaia Vince Nomad Century: How to Survive the Climate UpheavalAllen Lane
2023:Children's
Writing on
Nature and
Conservation[19][20]
Kiran Millwood Hargrave  *Leila and the Blue FoxChicken Houseillustrated by Tom de Freston
Nicola Davies Protecting the Planet: The Season of GiraffesWalker Booksillustrated by Emily Sutton
Olaf FalafelBlobfishWalker Books
M. G. Leonard Spark Walker Books
Dara McAnultyA Wild Child’s Book of BirdsMacmillanChildren’s Booksillustrated by Barry Falls
Anna Wilson Grandpa and the KingfisherNosy Crowillustrated by Sarah Massini

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