Where are the Fellows Who Cut the Hay by UEA alumnus Robert Ashton has been longlisted for the Wainwright Prize in the ‘Writing on Conservation’ category. Robert graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Biography and Creative Non-Fiction) in 2020. He was born in Essex, grew up in Suffolk and spent his teenage years working on farms, and has lived and worked in Lincolnshire, Yorkshire and Norfolk. He has written and published over twenty books covering topics such as copywriting, sales, marketing, entrepreneurship, self-help, social issues, and life writing. Where Are the Fellows Who Cut the Hay was inspired by George Ewart Evans’s Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay, interweaving his own personal connection to Evans and to the land.
Robert Ashton longlisted for Wainwright Conservation Prize
