The Moth Nature Writing Prize 2024
The Moth Nature Writing Prize
‘What a great competition to be running.' Robert Macfarlane
The Prize will be awarded to three unpublished pieces of prose or poetry which best combine exceptional literary merit with an exploration of the writer's relationship with the natural world.
The prize is open to anyone over the age of sixteen, as long as the work is original and previously unpublished.
1st prize €1000 plus a week at Circle of Misse in France
2nd prize €500
3rd prize €250
The winning pieces will be published in the Irish Times online
Closing date 30 September 2024
The Judge
Cal Flyn's first book, Thicker Than Water, was a Times book of the year. Her second book, Islands of Abandonment ‒ about the ecology and psychology of abandoned places ‒ was shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize, the British Academy Book Prize, the Ondaatje Prize and the Baillie Gifford Prize, among others.
The Moth Nature Writing Prize is open to anyone (over 16) as long as their piece (poetry or prose) is previously unpublished. The word limit for prose is 4,000 and there is an entry fee of €15. Closing 30 September 2024.
