Marchelle Farrell's Uprooting longlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing

The Wainwright Prize, which aims to celebrate nature and our environment and inform readers of the threats the earth currently faces, announced their 2024 longlists on 11 July.

Approaching its second decade amidst ongoing conversations around our environment – reflected in the continued growth in the publishing of nature and conservation writing – The Wainwright Prize’s role in amplifying these conversations is as urgent as ever. With a new government now in office, The Wainwright Prize hopes to provide a platform to bring many of the issues covered in the longlist to the forefront of political discourse.

A total of 35 books have been longlisted across the Prize’s three categories –the Prize for Nature Writing, the Prize for Writing on Conservation, and the Prize for Children’s Writing on Nature and Conservation. Each longlist was selected from submissions that demonstrated the diversity and strength of nature writing, including authors such as Olivia Laing, Rebecca Smith, Hamza Yassin, Caroline Lucas, Marchelle Farrell, Katherine Rundell and Eoin Colfer.