The Nature Chronicles Prize

🍃 Available to pre-order now 🍃 The best of contemporary nature writing from the winners of the third international Nature Chronicles Prize. saraband.net/sb-title/the... The anthology is introduced by nature writer Linda Cracknell. The previous two anthologies are out now! #BookSky 📚💙

We're delighted to announce the 2025/26 shortlist! 🌿 Angus Stokes, The Day Wings Filled the Sky 🌿 Elizabeth Bagby, Ghosts of Pyramiden 🌿 Isabelle Schmelzer, How to Catch a Porcupine 🌿 Kathryn Tann, Pele's Hair 🌿 Leonard Yip, Tremors at the Edge of Vision 🌿 Liz Lee Reynolds, DWR #BookSky

The countdown continues! There's just one week to go until this year's shortlist announcement and we're very excited to share all the details with you! #NatureChroniclesPrize #NatureChronicles #NatureWriting #Nature #PrizesShortlist

The countdown is on! There's just one week to go until the longlist announcement and we're very excited to share all the details with you! Scroll for a reminder of our key dates in the meantime. #NatureChroniclesPrize #NatureChronicles #NatureWriting #Nature

The @savebutterflies.bsky.social Big Butterfly Count starts today 🦋 By taking part you can help assess the health of our UK environment simply by counting butterflies. Visit the Big Butterfly Count website for further details: bigbutterflycount.butterfly-conservation.org

Happy World Ocean Day 🌊 World Ocean Day unites and rallies the world to protect and restore our blue planet! The theme for 2026 is Action. Visit the World Ocean Day website for information on how you can get involved. worldoceanday.org

Happy National Gardening Week 🌻 We're sharing details of garden essays included in our Prize Anthologies 🌱 In Volume 1 there is Q is for Garden, by Jenny Chamarette and The Fence by Laura Coleman. In Volume 2, you can find The Kailyards by Meg Bertera-Berwick. Happy reading and Gardening!

Happy Earth Day 🌍 The theme for Earth Day 2026 is Our Power, Our Planet. Visit the Earth Day website to discover more and get involved with events near you! 🍃 www.earthday.org/earth-day-2026 #EarthDay #OurPowerOurPlanet #EarthDay2026

Happy Dark Sky Week 💫 International Dark Sky Week is a global celebration of the night and is taking place this year from the 13-20 April. The 2026 theme is Go Dark. Visit @darkskyintl.bsky.social to discover more and how you can get involved! #DarkSkyWeek #DarkSkies

🍃 Entries to this year's Prize are now closed 🍃 Thank you to everyone who submitted, we're really looking forward to reading your work. A reminder of key dates can be found below and all other information can be found on our website - good luck! naturechroniclesprize.com

Today we're celebrating #WorldWetlandsDay with our friends at WWT🌾💧As much as we need air to breathe, we need water to live. The conservation of our wetlands is essential to life on Earth. Did you know #wetlands are one of the world’s most biodiverse habitats?

There's still time to enter this year's Prize! The deadline for entries is at midnight on Saturday 31 January Good luck with your submission 🍃 #NatureChroniclesPrize #NatureWriting #NaturePrize #Booksky 📚💙 naturechroniclesprize.com

There's only one week left to submit to this year's Prize! Entries close on 31st January 🍃 Visit our website for more information and scroll through our previous posts for writing tips and prompts - good luck! www.naturechroniclesprize.com #TheNatureChroniclesPrize #NatureWriting #Booksky 📚💙

The Big Garden Birdwatch is back! 🐦 The Big Garden Birdwatch is the world’s largest garden wildlife survey. Each year, hundreds of thousands of people take part, helping to record how garden birds are faring. Visit @rspb.bsky.social to find out more! #BigGardenBirdwatch #RSPB

The Big Garden Birdwatch is back! 🐦 The Big Garden Birdwatch is the world’s largest garden wildlife survey. Each year, hundreds of thousands of people take part, helping to record how garden birds are faring. Visit @rspb.bsky.social to find out more! #BigGardenBirdwatch #RSPB

🍃 Entries to this year's Prize close in less than two weeks 🍃 Visit our website for all the important information and scroll through our previous post for writing tips! Good luck! naturechroniclesprize.com #Booksky 📚💙 #naturechroniclesprize #naturewriting #nature #prize

🌿 Entries to this year's prize close in just under three weeks! 🌿 A reminder of the entry criteria is below, but please visit our website for more detailed information and the important Ts & Cs! naturechroniclesprize.com We're so excited to read your work! #Booksky #NatureWritingPrize 📚💙

Have you entered The Nature Chronicles Prize yet? Details in the post below! 🍃 #NatureWriting #Booksky #NatureWritingPrize 📚💙

It’s that time…Big Garden Birdwatch is BACK! 😍🙌 The birds are ready. We’re ready. Are you? Sign up is open now…go go go! www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen... #BigGardenBirdwatch

As the closing date draws nearer, here's a reminder of the Prize's key dates and entry criteria 🍃 Please do read the full Ts&Cs on our website before submitting your entry. Good luck, and we can't wait to read your work 📝 naturechroniclesprize.com/terms-and-co... #Booksky #NatureWriting 📚💙

Applications are invited for three fully-funded Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Doctoral Landscape Awards (DLA). Deadline is 9th February 2026. Proposed projects must be arts & humanities-led #PhD @findaphd.bsky.social @dcahf-met.bsky.social More details: #PhD www.mmu.ac.uk/study/postgr...

As the closing date draws nearer, here's a reminder of the Prize's key dates and entry criteria 🍃 Please do read the full Ts&Cs on our website before submitting your entry. Good luck, and we can't wait to read your work 📝 naturechroniclesprize.com/terms-and-co... #Booksky #NatureWriting 📚💙

Our Sponsor, Prudence Scott (1926–2019) The Nature Chronicles Prize is also a memorial to Prudence Scott, a lifelong nature diarist who died in 2019. Her Trust is the Prize’s sponsor. naturechroniclesprize.com #Booksky #natureprize 📚💙

Heartily recommend this anthology for the nature lover in your life. (Okay -- I have an essay in it -- but you can always skip that one if you don't want to read about insects, parenting, and existential angst.)

Our friends at @saraband-books.bsky.social have included the Nature Chronicles Prize 2 anthology in their Christmas shop! Treat a loved one, a friend (or even yourself) to this beautiful book of winning essays from the 2024 Prize 🍃 saraband.net/2025/11/12/s... #Booksky 📚💙

'Sharing the adventure through words, wanderings and wonder', the @kendalmtnbookfest.bsky.social @kendalmountainfest.bsky.social is starting next week! Have you got your tickets yet? www.kendalmountainfestival.com/highlights/l... #Booksky 📚💙

We are proud to announce the Jamie Normington Memorial Sponsorship The sponsorship will be awarded to ten aspiring or established nature writers for whom the cost of entry is a bar To qualify – on a first come first served basis – please contact christine@naturechroniclesprize.com #booksky 📚💙

Be careful if building a bonfire this Halloween and Bonfire Night. Hedgehogs love to hibernate in piles of sticks and branches – so build a bonfire on the same day you plan to burn it, and check it carefully for hiding wildlife. More : littlegreenspace.org.uk/features/nat...

Our #AutumnArrivalSpotlight is on the Whooper Swan. These elegant swans fly in from Iceland, their trumpet-like calls echoing across UK wetlands as they gather for winter.

There are just three months left until entries to the prize close! A reminder to please read the full Ts&Cs on our website before submitting 📝 We're really looking forward to reading your work, good luck! www.naturechroniclesprize.com #naturewriting #natureprize #booksky 📚💙

A reminder of our key dates 🗓️ 🍃 Entries are open now! 🍃 31st January 2026 - Closing date 🍃 1st August 2026 - Longlist 🍃 1st September 2026 - Shortlist 🍃 November 2026 - Prize-giving and book launch For more information and how to submit, please visit our website: naturechroniclesprize.com

Some brilliant advice and insight into what Linda Cracknell is looking forward to as a judge on this year's Prize! Have you submitted yet? All the information you need can be found on our website naturechroniclesprize.com #naturechroniclesprize #naturewriting #nature #outdoors #booksky 📚💙

Interested in submitting to the prize this year? We asked @anjanakhatwa.bsky.social what she's looking forward to as a judge! Find out more, and how to submit, on our website: 🍃 naturechroniclesprize.com #naturechroniclesprize #naturewriting #booksky 📚💙

We spoke to 2024 Nature Chronicles Prize winner, @sourbee-matt.bsky.social on what he's looking forward to as a judge on the 2025/26 Prize! Read more about the Prize, and how you can enter, here: naturechroniclesprize.com #naturechroniclesprize #naturechronicles #naturewriting #booksky 📚💙

This autumn, please consider leaving dead plants in your garden rather than 'tidying' them up. Over the winter they will provide sheltered spots for hibernating ladybirds and lots of other creatures 🐞

Have you submitted your entry yet? 🍃 The winner will receive £10,000 and five runners up £1,000 each. The winning and shortlisted entries will be included in The Nature Chronicles Prize: 3 anthology, published by @saraband-books.bsky.social Find out more: naturechroniclesprize.com #naturewriting

The perfect time time of year to explore the outdoors and be inspired for some nature writing 🍂🍄 www.wildlifetrusts.org/blog/wildlif...

Looking for some inspiration for this year's prize? Why not read through the winning entries from 2024 🌿 Read more about the anthology, and how you can get a copy, here: naturechroniclesprize.com #Booksky #NatureWriting 📚💙

Tips on how you can help hedgehogs and birds after the dry summer months www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Congratulations to the 2025 #WainwrightPrize winners 🎉

We're delighted to announce that entries for the 2025/26 Nature Chronicles Prize open today! The winner will receive £10,000 and five runners up £1,000 each. The winning and shortlisted entries will be included in The Nature Chronicles Prize: 3 anthology, published by @saraband-books.bsky.social

Completing our judges introductions is Patrick Walsh, agent and founder of Pew Literary Agency. His clients have won and been shortlisted for numerous literary awards! Read more about Patrick on our website: naturechroniclesprize.com #booksky #naturewriting #naturechroniclesprize 📚💙

My author's journey started with entering a nature writing competition. Yours can too! Read below for a chance to win £10k & a chance to break through barriers with an idea that could change the way we think about the natural world. Good luck! 🤞🏾🤩 #naturewriting

Our fourth judge is @sourbee-matt.bsky.social, an environmental writer, poet, and activist, and the winner of the 2024 Nature Chronicles Prize! Read more about Matt on our website www.naturechroniclesprize.com #Booksky #NatureWriting 📚💙