Winner of the 2023 Island Nonfiction Prize
We are delighted to announce the winner of the 2023 Island Nonfiction Prize is Indigo Bailey for 'Rain Rain.'
Winner of the 2022 Island Nonfiction Prize
I’m thrilled to announce the winner of the 2022 Island Nonfiction Prize: Heather Taylor Johnson’s ‘Selfish Ghosts’.
Nonfiction Prize 2022 Shortlist
We have once again been spoiled for choice! This year’s entrants to the Island Nonfiction Prize were in equal parts powerful, moving, funny, furious and sad, and choosing a shortlist from hundreds of submissions was quite a task.
Island’s Inaugural Nonfiction Prize Winners
In the almost 300 entries we received were a whole range of experiences, communicated in every kind of nonfiction form. As judges, we were fortunate to have the opportunity to read pieces that were funny, devastating, profound, pithy, lyrical and hard. These entries ran the gamut of nonfiction, from traditional essay form to unapologetically experimental, and pure memoir to absolute universal exploration.