The 2025 Wainwright Prizes has announced winners for 2025 on Wednesday. The prize showcases writing that reflects its namesake Alfred Wainwright’s values of celebrating nature and our environment, nurturing respect for the planet, and informing readers of the threats that the earth currently faces.
Intertidal: A Coast and Marsh Diary, by Yuvan Aves, is the first Indian writer to make the shortlist. It was nominated for the 2025 Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing and has been judged as “highly commended” in the category. Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton is the 2025 Nature Writing winner. Dalton is also the winner of the 2025 Wainwright Prize Book of the Year. The two overall winning books received a prize of £2,500, with the picture book award jointly shared by its author and illustrator. Category winners were each awarded £500 per book.
The other Wainwright Prizes winners are:
The 2025 Wainwright Prize Children’s Book of the Year: Flower Block, Lanisha Butterfield and illustrated by Hoang Giang (Puffin Books)
The Wainwright Prize for Conservation Writing: The Lie of the Land, Guy Shrubsole (William Collins)
The Wainwright Prize for Illustrative Books: Feed the Planet, George Steinmetz with Joel K Bourne Jr and Michael Pollan (Abrams)
The Children’s Wainwright Prize for Fiction: Wildlands, Brogen Murphy (Puffin Books)
The Children’s Wainwright Prize for Non-Fiction: University of Cambridge: Think Big: Secrets of Bees by Ben Hoare and illustrated by Nina Chakrabarti (Nosy Crow)
The Children’s Wainwright Prize for Picture Books: Flower Block by Lanisha Butterfield and illustrated by Hoang Giang (Puffin Books)
