Essay Contest Winners
Guy and Laura Waterman spent a lifetime reflecting and writing on the Northeast’s mountains. The Waterman fund seeks to further their legacy of stewardship through essays that celebrate and explore issues of wilderness, wildness, and humans through the Fund’s annual essay contest.
Interested in entering your essay in our current contest? Learn more here ›
| Year | Author | Essay Title | Award (in $) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Lorraine Monteagut | The Wild Self, What is wild to one is home to another | 1500 | |
| 2019 | Jennifer O'Connell | Valley of the Bulls | 1500 | |
| 2019 | Alex Pickens | The Do's and Don't's of Trail Running in the Appalachian Mountains | 1500 | |
| 2019 | John Anderson | Humor in the Wild | 500 | |
| 2018 | Emily Heidenreich | On Ceding Control | 1500 | |
| 2018 | Tyler Socash | The Torch of Preservation | 500 | |
| 2017 | No Award Given | |||
| 2016 | No Award Given | |||
| 2015 | Dove Henry | One Tough Gal | 1500 | |
| 2015 | Erica Berry | Lady and the Camp | 500 | |
| 2014 | Jenny Kelly Wagner | The Cage Canyon | 1500 | |
| 2013 | Michael Wejchert | Epigoni, Revisited | 1500 | |
| 2012 | Katherine Dykstra | A Place for Everything | 1500 | |
| 2012 | Angela Zukowski | Wilderness | 500 | |
| 2011 | Blair Braverman | On Being Lost | 1000 | |
| 2011 | Bethany Taylor | The Warp and Weft | 1000 | |
| 2010 | Dianne Fallon | Hunting the Woolly Adelgid | 1500 | |
| 2009 | Jeremy Loeb | A Ritual Descent | 1500 | |
| 2008 | Kimberley S.K. Beal | Climate Change at the Top | 1500 |
Additional Notable Essays
November 2008 – Dark Night on Whitewall, Will Kemeza
October 2008 – Looking Up, Sandy Stott
September 2008 – Fay’s Quandary Revisited, Nat Scrimshaw
August 2008 – Meditation on Winter Camping, Sally Manikian
July 2008 – A Pocket of the Mountains, N. Blauss
June 2008- The Evolution of a Trail Worker, Matt Moore
May 2008 – A Cup of Mountain Tea, Jeremy Loeb