The 2024 Imagine climate fiction contest
12 brand-new climate fiction short stories feature vivid, hope-filled, diverse visions of climate progress. Discover this year's winning stories now.
12 brand-new climate fiction short stories feature vivid, hope-filled, diverse visions of climate progress. Discover this year's winning stories now.
Imagine 2200 is Grist’s climate fiction initiative, engaging writers across the globe in envisioning the next 180 years of climate progress. Whether built on abundance or adaptation, reform or a new understanding of survival, these stories serve as a springboard for exploring how fiction can help us build towards a better reality.
Our next short story contest is open for submissions now. Read the prompt and get all the details on the 2024/25 Imagine contest.
Two young men navigate grief and rivers in a Kansas City that is showing signs of healing from climate change, toxic contamination, and racism.
Immerse yourself in these short audio cli-fi stories, from our Imagine 2200 initiative, and find hope in unexpected places.
A grieving son protects his family’s beehives as he steers them home aboard his parents’ ship.
On the day he is to marry, the son of a Māori chief questions his place in his community.
Despite rising seas, a band of coastal-dwelling Goori honor their traditions surfing monster waves.
Read the winning stories from our second-annual short story contest, envisioning the next 180 years of equitable climate progress.
After an “oceanic rapture,” a lone survivor adapts to his new reality in ways both mental and physical.
Imagine 2200's second year offers lessons on how art fosters hope.
In post-warming Rwanda, a family learns to move past the trauma left behind.
A young woman finds herself called back to her home, to help protect a river that nourished her and her community.
When a minor disaster shakes up the plans for a local ceremony, a young woman and her colleagues pull together to provide for the community.
A mother and her teenager navigate the challenges of moving to a new community and starting a new life.
An inquisitive drone responsible for protecting a forest ecosystem stumbles upon a surprise deep in the woods.
A set of adult twins return to their Gulf Coast hometown to rewild the land, and remember the family who came before them.
A bioengineer grappling with a challenging problem finds the answer in the dreams of her dying grandmother.