Congratulations to Gregory Day- Winner of the 2021 Nature Writing Prize

Cameron’s congratulates client Gregory Day, who has won the 2021 Nature Writing Prize for his work ‘The Watergaw’.

Day is a winner of the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal, the Elizabeth Jolley Prize, and his latest novel, A Sand Archive, was shortlisted for the 2019 Miles Franklin Award. In 2020, he received the Patrick White Award.

Miles Franklin award-winning author Tara June Winch, who judged the prize with the Australian chief literary critic Geordie Williamson, said Day’s essay was ‘striking for its nuance and accomplishment in expressing nostalgia, and the language of belonging to a place. A beautiful and subtle work’.

The Nature Conservancy Australia Nature Writing Prize was created to promote and celebrate the art of nature writing in Australia as well as to encourage a greater appreciation of Australia’s landscapes.

Day receives $7500 prize money and his work will be published in Griffith Review online as a multimedia essay.

Past recipients include Annamaria Weldon, Stephen Wright, Nick Gadd, Sophie Cunningham, Jenny Sinclair and Sue Castrique.