Last Saturday night at the Ten Days literary celebration at the Republic Bar & Cafe in North Hobart, Peter Grant from Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife announced the winner of the Wildcare Nature Writing Prize. Congratulations to Peter Shepherd from NSW who took out the first prize, and to runners-up, Amanda Curtin from WA and Elizabeth Bryer from Victoria.

Peter’s essay, In the Land of Nod, has won him $5000 plus return airfares to Hobart and a two-week residency in a Tasmanian national park.