Wainwright Prize
The Wainwright Prize is a literary prize awarded annually for the best work of general outdoors, nature and UK-based travel writing. In 2020 it was split into The Wainwright Prize for UK nature writing and The Wainwright Prize for writing on global conservation, with separate longlists and judging panels. It is restricted to books published in the UK.
It celebrates the legacy of British guidebook writer Alfred Wainwright. The prize was established by Frances Lincoln Publishers and The Wainwright Society, in association with The National Trust. It was originally sponsored by Thwaites Brewery, who produced a beer called Wainwright Ale and was later sponsored by Marston's Brewery, who took over Thwaites' production of Wainwright Golden Beer, and sometimes referred to as The Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize. In 2020 the prize was no longer sponsored, but was supported by an anonymous benefactor and was "in association with the National Trust".
The prize was first awarded in 2014 to Hugh Thomson for his The Green Road Into The Trees: A Walk through England. The winner receives a cheque for £5,000. With the introduction of two prizes in 2020 the prize money is shared between the two winners.
Winners
In the following table, the years correspond to the date of the ceremony, rather than when the book was first published. Entries with a blue background and an asterisk next to the writer's name have won the award; those with a pale background are the other nominees on the shortlist.* Winners
| Year | Author | Novel | Publisher | Notes |
| 2014 | * | |||
| 2014 | Walking Home | |||
| 2014 | Badgerlands | |||
| 2014 | Under Another Sky | |||
| 2014 | ||||
| 2014 | Field Notes from a Hidden City | |||
| 2015 | * | Meadowland | ||
| 2015 | Running Free: A Runner's Journey Back to Nature | |||
| 2015 | ' | |||
| 2015 | Claxton: Field Notes from a Small Planet | |||
| 2015 | H is for Hawk | |||
| 2015 | Rising Ground: A Search for the Spirit of Place | |||
| 2016 | * | ' | ||
| 2016 | Common Ground | |||
| 2016 | Landmarks | |||
| 2016 | ||||
| 2016 | ||||
| 2016 | ||||
| 2017 | * | |||
| 2017 | Love of Country | |||
| 2017 | ||||
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| 2017 | Wild Kingdom | |||
| 2017 | ||||
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| 2018 | * | |||
| 2018 | ||||
| 2018 | Hidden Nature | |||
| 2018 | Outskirts | |||
| 2018 | ||||
| 2018 | and Jackie Morris | |||
| 2018 | ||||
| 2019 | * | Underland | ||
| 2019 | Time Song | |||
| 2019 | ||||
| 2019 | Our Place | |||
| 2019 | Thinking on My Feet | |||
| 2019 | Wilding | |||
| 2019 | Out of the Woods | |||
| 2020: Global Cons'n | winner tba 9 Sept 2020 | |||
| 2020: Global Cons'n | What We Need to Do Now | |||
| 2020: Global Cons'n | Irreplaceable | |||
| 2020: Global Cons'n | Rebirding: Restoring Britain's Wildlife | |||
| 2020: Global Cons'n | Life Changing: How Humans are Altering Life on Earth | |||
| 2020: Global Cons'n | Working With Nature | |||
| 2020: Global Cons'n | Sitopia: How Food Can Save the World | |||
| 2020: UK Nature Writing | winner tba 9 Sept 2020 | |||
| 2020: UK Nature Writing | Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town | |||
| 2020: UK Nature Writing | ||||
| 2020: UK Nature Writing | Native: Life in a Vanishing Landscape | |||
| 2020: UK Nature Writing | Diary of a Young Naturalist | |||
| 2020: UK Nature Writing | On the Red Hill | |||
| 2020: UK Nature Writing | Wanderland: A Search for Magic in the Landscape | |||
| 2020: UK Nature Writing | Dancing with Bees: A Journey Back to Nature |