2024 Reed Environmental Writing Award Nominations – CLOSED

The Reed Environmental Writing Award celebrates writers who achieve both literary excellence and extraordinary insight into the South’s natural treasures and environmental challenges. Please fill out the form below to nominate a book or journalism piece for the 2024 Reed Environmental Writing Award.

Nominations for book entries must be works of nonfiction (not self-published), and journalism entries, including newspaper, magazine, and digital writing, must be published by a recognized institution such as a newspaper, university, or nonprofit organization.

Winners will be announced in January 2024 and invited to read from their winning entry at a special SELC event during the Virginia Festival of the Book, held every March in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Learn more about the contest requirements.