British Wildlife is the leading natural history magazine in the UK, providing essential reading for both enthusiast and professional naturalists and wildlife conservationists. Published eight times a year, British Wildlife bridges the gap between popular writing and scientific literature through a combination of long-form articles, regular columns and reports, book reviews and letters.
Conservation Land Management (CLM) is a quarterly magazine that is widely regarded as essential reading for all who are involved in land management for nature conservation, across the British Isles. CLM includes long-form articles, events listings, publication reviews, new product information and updates, reports of conferences and letters.
The Wainwright Prize, first awarded in 2014, is a literary prize that seeks to reward the best British outdoors, nature and travel writing. The prize is named in honour of Alfred Wainwright (1907-1991), the British author, illustrator and hillwalker who is most well-known for his seven-volume Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells, published between 1955-1966. In 2022, the Wainwright Prize was renamed the James Cropper Wainwright Prize after signing a sponsorship deal with James Cropper, a paper manufacturer based in the English Lake District.
In 2020, The James Cropper Wainwright Prize was extended to include a second category to cover writing on global conservation, while here we present the twelve longlisted candidates for UK nature writing.
Previous year’s winners are Amy-Jane Beer's The Flow (2023), James Aldred's Goshawk Summer (2022) James Rebanks's English Pastoral (2021), Dara McAnulty's Diary of a Young Naturalist (2020), Robert Macfarlane's Underland (2019), Adam Nicolson's The Seabird's Cry (2018), John Lewis-Stempel's Where Poppies Blow (2017), Amy Liptrot’s The Outrun (2016), John Lewis-Stempel’s Meadowland (2015), and Hugh Thomson’s The Green Road Into The Trees (2014).