Cull & Co authors have been recognised across fiction, non-fiction, travel writing, crime, journalism and broadcasting, with wins, shortlistings and nominations for awards including the Nero Book Awards, the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards, the British Guild of Travel Writers Awards, the CWA Daggers, the Crime Cologne Award, the Blue Metropolis Prize, the RTS Awards, the Emmys, the Peabody Awards, and numerous journalism prizes.

Highlights

Patrick Aryee

  • Winner – RTS West Award for New On Screen Talent 2015
    Super Senses / BBC Two
  • Winner – World Congress of Science & Factual Producers Award for Best TV Presenter 2022

Kevin Bartlett

  • Shortlisted – CWA Debut Dagger 2022
    Henry’s Bomb
    Later published as / developed into Timebomb.

Tim Bird

  • Selected – Stanfords Non-Fiction Book of the Month, January 2026
    Happy Land: Finding My Inner Finn

Elliott Gotkine

  • Winner – News & Documentary Emmy Award, Outstanding Breaking News Coverage 2024
    CNN coverage of the Israel-Hamas War
  • Winner – Overseas Press Club of America David Kaplan Award 2024
    As part of CNN’s winning team for Best TV news reporting from abroad

Tim Hain

  • Shortlisted – The Telegraph Sports Book Awards, Best Illustrated Sports Book of the Year 2020
    Lap of Honour

George Harrison

  • Shortlisted – Nero Book Awards, Best Debut Novel 2025
    Season
  • Winner – Escalator New Writing Fellowship, National Centre for Writing 2023

Rosemary Jenkinson

  • Shortlisted – Hennessy Award for New Writing 2002
  • Shortlisted – EU Prize for Literature
    Catholic Boy
  • Longlisted – Edge Hill Short Story Prize
    Catholic Boy
  • Shortlisted – Edge Hill Short Story Prize 2023
    Love in the Time of Chaos

Rachel Lichtenstein

  • Shortlisted – Ondaatje Prize 2008
    On Brick Lane
  • Longlisted – Gordon Burn Prize 2020
    Estuary

Kathy Marks

  • Winner – Ned Kelly Prize for Best True Crime Writing 2010
    Pitcairn: Paradise Lost
  • Shortlisted – CAL Waverley Library Award for Literature
    Pitcairn: Paradise Lost
  • Winner – Walkley Award for Indigenous Affairs Coverage 2013
    “Channelling Mannalargenna”

Shafik Meghji

  • Winner – British Guild of Travel Writers Travel Narrative Book of the Year 2025
    Small Earthquakes
  • Shortlisted – Edward Stanford Travel Book of the Year 2026
    Small Earthquakes
  • Shortlisted – Edward Stanford Travel Book of the Year 2023
    Crossed Off the Map
  • Shortlisted – BGTW Members’ Excellence Awards 2024
    UK Travel Feature of the Year; Sustainability Feature of the Year

Shivya Nath

  • Winner – WTM Responsible Tourism Awards India, Best Communicator 2020
  • Finalist – Travel Media Awards, UK 2023
    For her Adventure.com “no-fly” travel story from Switzerland to the Arctic

Mary Novakovich

  • Winner – Golden Pen Awards 2026 Grand Prix for Best Print Reportage
    For the Daily Mail article “Your Ultimate Guide to Croatia”
  • Winner – British Guild of Travel Writers Travel Narrative Book of the Year 2023
    My Family and Other Enemies
  • Shortlisted – Edward Stanford Travel Book of the Year 2023
    My Family and Other Enemies
  • Shortlisted – TravMedia Awards, Specialist Travel Writer of the Year 2024

C. J. Schüler

  • Shortlisted – Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year 2021
    Along the Amber Route
  • Longlisted – Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize 2021
    Along the Amber Route
  • Shortlisted – Bookmark Book Festival Book of the Year 2020
    Along the Amber Route

Christiana Spens

  • Shortlisted – Anne Brown Essay Prize 2025
    “In Search of Tove Janssen in Helsinki”

Michael Smith

  • Longlisted – CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction 2023
    The Real Special Relationship

Daniel Stables

  • Winner – Inspire Global Media Awards 2026
    For his National Geographic Traveller feature on Sicily
  • Shortlisted – British Guild of Travel Writers Travel Feature of the Year 2023
  • Shortlisted – Freelance Writing Awards, Travel Writer of the Year 2021

Seth Thévoz

  • Winner – Dame Jinty Nelson Prize in History
    Dissertation work
  • Shortlisted – Whitfield Prize 2019
    Club Government
  • Shortlisted – British Journalism Award, Best Investigation 2020
    With openDemocracy colleagues

Karina Urbach

  • Winner – Crime Cologne Award 2018
    Cambridge 5: Zeit der Verräter
    Published under the pseudonym Hannah Coler

Liz Rachel Walker

  • Highly Commended – CWA Debut Dagger 2022
    The Dieppe Letters