Richard Jefferies Award

The shortlist for the 2025 award has been announced

Ghosts of the Farm by Nicola Chester
A Wilding Year by Hannah Dale
Peatlands by Alys Fowler
My Head for a Tree by Martin Goodman
The Lost Elms by Mandy Haggith
Of Thorn & Briar by Paul Lamb

The winner will be announced by late spring.

Nominations for the 2026 award for #nature writing are now open. www.richardjefferiesaward.org

A word search for both names in Jefferies' works does not reveal mention of either.

Nominations for the Richard Jefferies Award for Nature Writing close at noon on Monday 1st December. There have been 27 nominations so far. Full details of the award and how to nominate can be found at www.richardjefferiesaward.org

Invitation to a Zoom meeting on Mon. 3 Nov. 2025 starting at 7.30pm and hosted by us.
#SophieYeo will be talking about her award-winning book 'Nature's Ghosts'. Email RichardJefferiesSociety@btinternet.com to receive the free link to attend the meeting. www.richardjefferiesaward.org/p/2024-nomin...

Witnessing Wiltshire's lost wildlife: Richard Jefferies' journey A young journalist has recorded his observations of the wildlife on his family’s Westcountry farm, a mixed farm with livestock, crops and orchard. His detailed record describes an abundance of birds –...

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To add to my delight, a courier dropped this off - Richard Jefferies’ “After London” - a neat little Everyman edition from the 1940s of what is arguable one of the earliest post-apocalyptic novels (1885) in which towns and cities are destroyed, and England returns to the wilds of nature. #BookSky

Nominations so far:

Gilbert White, Selborne and sound: nightjars and the Portsmouth Evening Gun.

From the master of nature writing, Richard Jefferies, 1883. Artwork produced today at the @rjmuseum.bsky.social

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Nominations open for the best in #nature writing published in 2025. www.richardjefferiesaward.org

Past winners of the Richard Jefferies Award since 2015

Richard Jefferies (1848-1887) is the purest and most sensitive nature writer produced by a country that has prided itself on the strength of its nature tradition. The Richard Jefferies Award is given annually to nature writers reflecting the sense of place so strong in Jefferies’ countryside books.

Early nominations for the best in Nature Writing published in 2025 www.richardjefferiesaward.org