Travel Writing Award: Bridging Cultures in 2024-2025

Eligibility for Travel Writing Award

Any kind of full-length, non-fiction (including creative non-fiction) travel book created by a British or EU national and released in English in 2024 or 2025 is eligible for the award; access must be made by the author’s author or literary representative.

Moreover, “as well as the daring of the writer’s ambition and the high quality of composing, focus will certainly be placed on books that allow visitors to cross boundaries and so to draw together– on the web page a minimum of– our separated worlds”.

2026 Judges and Timeline

Authors Colin Thubron and Sara Wheeler and literary representative Emma Paterson are the courts of the 2026 honor. In January 2026, a shortlist will certainly be introduced by the courts. The winning author will certainly be exposed at the Sherborne Travel Composing Festival in April 2026.

The Power of Travel Writing

Writer and event curator Rory MacLean stated: “Traveling authors are bridge home builders, venturing out into the world to comprehend different peoples, times and cultures. Compassion exists at the heart of our job and the essential belief that via much better understanding others we can better recognize ourselves.”

The yearly reward will be granted to a published British or European writer whose work “urges understanding between peoples and throughout cultures, responding to the department and seclusion of the here and now day”.