The best of contemporary nature writing from the winners of the
inaugural international Nature Chronicles Prize.
The Nature Chronicles Prize is a new biennial, international,
English-language literary award founded to celebrate engaging, unique,
essay-length nonfiction that responds to the time we are in and the
world as it is. Conceived in 2020 to mark the global pandemic, the prize
is also a memorial to Prudence Scott, a lifelong British nature diarist
who died in 2019.
Contained within this volume are the outstanding nominated entries for
the inaugural prize. These winning works express diverse responses to
our planet and its life, and together embody the best of contemporary
nature writing.