The winners of the 2025 Wainwright Prize were announced on Wednesday 10th September, at FarmED, a not-for-profit centre in Oxfordshire that educates the public to build sustainable and regenerative farming and food systems.
In addition to the individual category winners, two exceptional books were chosen as the overall winners. Both winners were debut authors who used their personal lives as inspiration to highlight unlikely connections with nature.
Flower Block
by Lanisha Butterfield & illustrated by Hoang Giang
Raising Hare
by Chloe Dalton
2025 Category Winners
The Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing
Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton
The Wainwright Prize for Conservation Writing
The Lie of the Land by Guy Shrubsole
The Wainwright Prize for Illustrative Books
Feed the Planet by George Steinmetz with Joel K. Bourne Jr. & Michael Pollan
The Children’s Wainwright Prize for Fiction
Wildlands by Brogen Murphy
The Children’s Wainwright Prize for Non-Fiction
University of Cambridge: Think Big: Secrets of Bees by Ben Hoare & illustrated by Nina Chakrabarti
