Prizes, awards and honours

2022 Elected Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
2012 Nominated for the Eleanor Farjeon Award for distinguished service to the world of children’s books
2012 Made an honorary member of the Royal Naval Reserve Officers’ Dining Club
2009 Appointed Royal Literary Fund Fellow
2007 International Winner, US Maritime Literature Awards for The Plimsoll Sensation
2006 Mountbatten Maritime Prize for The Plimsoll Sensation
2003 Blooming Books nominated for British Book Awards Illustrated Book of the Year
1989 Runner-up for the Catherine Pakenham Award for the outstanding woman journalist under the age of thirty

Academic awards

Henry Fellowship, Yale University (accepted)
Frank Knox Fellowship, Harvard University (declined in favour of Yale Fellowship)
Thouron Award, University of Pennsylvania (declined in favour of Yale Fellowship)
Violet Vaughan Morgan Prize for English Literature (Oxford University)
Agnes Leys Scholarship (St Hilda’s College)

Nicolette Jones also had a hand in encouraging the efforts that earned these
awards:

2015 Islington in Bloom Best Street Award for Plimsoll Road
2014 Islington in Bloom Best Small Neighbourhood Award and Gold Award for
the Blackstock Triangle Gardeners
2014 Commendation in the Cultivation Street awards for the Blackstock
Triangle Gardeners
2011 Islington in Bloom Silver Gilt award for the streets of the Blackstock
Triangle
2010 Islington in Bloom Second Prize for Best Street for Plimsoll
Road, Ambler Road and Prah Road
2009 Islington Mayor’s Civic Award for the Neighbours of the Blackstock Road
Triangle
2009 Islington in Bloom Special Award for Community Participation for Plimsoll
Road and Ambler Road