Travel Writing Award: Bridging Cultures Through Literature

The annual reward will certainly be awarded to a published British or European author whose job “encourages understanding between peoples and throughout cultures, responding to the department and seclusion of the present day”.

Eligibility Criteria for Travel Writing Award

Any kind of full-length, non-fiction (consisting of creative non-fiction) guidebook written by a British or EU nationwide and published in English in 2024 or 2025 is qualified for the award; access need to be made by the author’s publisher or literary representative.

Writer and celebration manager Rory MacLean stated: “Travel writers are bridge builders, venturing out right into the world to recognize various individuals, times and societies. Compassion lies at the heart of our work and the basic idea that with much better understanding others we can better know ourselves.”

Moreover, “as well as the daring of the author’s ambition and the top quality of creating, emphasis will be positioned on publications that allow readers to cross boundaries therefore to draw together– on the web page a minimum of– our separated globes”.

Judges and Timeline for 2026 Award

Writers Colin Thubron and Sara Wheeler and literary representative Emma Paterson are the courts of the 2026 award. In January 2026, a shortlist will certainly be revealed by the judges. The winning author will be revealed at the Sherborne Travel Composing Celebration in April 2026.