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The Wainwright Prizes
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Stories that connect people & planet 🌱 #WainwrightPrize 🦆 2026 PRIZE COMING SOON!
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    We’re delighted to announce the 2025 #WainwrightPrize Winners From powerful storytelling to vital conservation work and bold illustration, this year’s winners reflect the richness, urgency, and joy of writing about the natural world. wainwrightprize.com #StoriesThatConnect
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    Congratulations to @naturalistdara who enthralled our judges with a breathtaking account of his explorations into the natural world. Let’s hear from our winner, who reflects on what it means to win the #WainwrightPrize20 with #DiaryofaYoungNaturalist published by @LittleToller
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    Like and retweet for a chance to win a book bundle from our 2018 shortlist signed by the authors! Winner announced on 1st of September #wainwrightprize18 #competition #lettheoutsidein #findyourmountain #win
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    And the winner of the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing is… #NatureWriting #WainwrightPrize20
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    We're so excited to reveal the longlist for UK Nature Writing! Congratulations to our thirteen longlisted authors! #WainwrightPrize
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    The 2020 winner of the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing is Dara McAnulty (@naturalistdara) for Diary of a Young Naturalist, published by @LittleToller! Congratulations Dara! #WainwrightPrize20
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    The Winner of the 2023 #JamesCropperWainwrightPrize for Conservation is The Lost Rainforests of Britain by @guyshrubsole! A brilliant and eye-opening book uncovering the dwindling rainforests that once occupied much of Western Britain. (@WmCollinsBooks)
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    We are so excited to reveal the 2021 longlist for UK Nature Writing! Congratulations to our thirteen longlisted authors! #WainwrightPrize21 wainwrightprize.com/2021-longlist-…
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    To celebrate the wonderful range of books on the Wainwright Nature Writing Prize longlist, we have decided to run a competition... Retweet this to be in with a chance of winning a bundle of books from the 2018 longlist! #WainwrightPrize2018 #NatureWriting #Competition #WinBooks
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    Congratulations to @herdyshepherd1 on being awarded the Wainwright Prize for UK Nature Writing for ‘English Pastoral’ published by @PenguinUKBooks! #WainwrightPrize21
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    The #WainwrightPrize22 shortlist for #Conservation is…💙 Eating to Extinction, @DanSaladinoUK Our Biggest Experiment, Alice Bell Regenesis, @GeorgeMonbiot Silent Earth, @DaveGoulson The Insect Crisis, @olliemilman The Treeline, @BenRawlence Wild Fell, @leeinthelakes #JCWP22
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    The winner of the Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize 2019 is @RobGMacfarlane with Underland, published by @PenguinUKBooks Massive congratulations #WainwrightPrize19 Head to our Instagram story to hear his acceptance speech!
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    “Winning this prize means that bit more to me as it shows youth voices can be heard.” As the youngest winner of the #WainwrightPrize20, @NaturalistDara shares his joy with judging chair @JuliaBradbury. Keep your eyes peeled for the full interview coming soon! @LittleToller
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    The Winner of the 2023 #JamesCropperWainwrightPrize for Nature Writing is The Flow by @AmyJaneBeer! An amazing achievement and your staggering and moving work of nature writing that is The Flow. (@BloomsburyBooks)