The Prize will be awarded to three unpublished pieces of prose or poetry which best combine exceptional literary merit with an exploration of the writer’s relationship with the natural world.

The Moth Nature Writing Prize is open to anyone (over 16) as long as their piece (poetry or prose) is previously unpublished. The word limit for prose is 4,000. The entry fee is €15 per entry and you can enter as many pieces as you like.

The winning pieces will be published in the Irish Times online.

We are keen to encourage quality, so suggest writers to check their stories before submitting using Prowritingaid. They have free and paid versions and are the best writing software we know to help improve grammar, readability and check for repetition, ‘sticky’ sentences and suggest alternatives.