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The Moth Nature Writing Prize 2024

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Closing date: 
30 September 2024
Entry: 
Open to anyone over the age of 16 with an unpublished piece of nature writing, which can be poetry or prose. Entry fee €15 per entry
Prize: 
First Prize €1,000 and a week-long stay at The Circle of Misse in France, Second Prize €500 and Third Prize €250

The Moth Nature Writing Prize

‘What a great competition to be running.' Robert Macfarlane


The Prize will be awarded to three unpublished pieces of prose or poetry which best combine exceptional literary merit with an exploration of the writer's relationship with the natural world.  Read more

The Moth Nature Writing Prize 2023

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Closing date: 
30 September 2023
Entry: 
Open to anyone over the age of 16 with an unpublished piece of nature writing. Entry fee €15 per entry
Prize: 
First Prize €1,000 and a week-long stay at The Circle of Misse in France, Second Prize €500 and Third Prize €250

THE MOTH NATURE WRITING PRIZE

Kathleen Jamie, multi-award-winning author of numerous poetry collections, as well as three works of non-fiction, an acclaimed travel narrative and the groundbreaking nature books, Finding sand Sightlines, will judge The Moth Nature Writing Prize 2023.  Read more

The Moth Nature Writing Prize 2022

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Closing date: 
15 September 2022
Entry: 
Open to anyone over the age of 16 with an unpublished piece of nature writing. Entry fee €15 per entry
Prize: 
€1,000 and a week-long stay at The Moth Retreat in rural Ireland.

THE MOTH NATURE WRITING PRIZE

Judge Max Porter  Read more

The Laurel Prize 2022

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Closing date: 
17 April 2022
Entry: 
Entries are open to all poets writing in the English language anywhere in the world. Self-published collections are not eligible. No entry fee
Prize: 
First Prize – £5,000 Second Prize – £2,000 Third Prize – £1,000 Prize for Best First Collection – £500

From Simon Armitage, UK Poet Laureate:

‘We are facing the most catastrophic threat to the future of our planet that we have ever encountered.'

Over the course of my ten year Laureateship I want one of the headline projects to be a prize or award that recognises and encourages the resurgence of nature and environmental writing, currently taking place in poetry.  Read more

The Moth Nature Writing Prize

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Closing date: 
15 September 2020
Entry: 
Open to anyone over the age of 16 with an unpublished piece of nature writing. Entry fee €15 per entry
Prize: 
€1,000 and a week-long stay at The Moth Retreat in rural Ireland.

THE MOTH NATURE WRITING PRIZE  Read more

Nan Shepherd Prize for Nature Writing

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Closing date: 
10 September 2019
Entry: 
Open to previously unpublished and self-published writers based in the UK No entry fee
Prize: 
An advance of £10,000, editorial mentoring and the option of literary representation with Jenny Brown Associates

A new literary prize for underrepresented voices in nature writing

Canongate has launched the Nan Shepherd Prize for Nature Writing, as Oscar-nominated actor Tilda Swinton records the audiobook of Shepherd's The Living Mountain (Canongate)  Read more

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