Humankind: writing from the Cheshire Prize for Literature 2022

What topic could be more meaningful to us as a species at this time?

It affects us as individuals, as communities, and impacts all species locally and globally.

Never has sustainability been more important as a concept than now, and quite probably will remain so long into the future.

Never has change been so key in the survival of our collective future.

The place of literature and the arts in this discussion is as vital as any scientific discovery too, as it is only through story and shared narrative that the necessary change in understanding will happen.