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.
As hard times and broken bots threaten a collective tea farm, the women keeping it going must decide whether to add another to their ranks.
Amid the sharks and waves of Hawaiʻi, two people discover something important about themselves, and each other.
In land once claimed by Russia, a magical deer joins a young girl as she grows up and changes her land for the better.
A Jamaican woman takes more than she gives, until the sea teaches her a valuable lesson with implications for everyone around her.
Tiny robots eat plastic, tattoos livestream video, we all swim with dolphins, and more amazing vignettes from a better future.
The last four creatures on Earth make an amazing discovery as the oldest of them finally returns home.
During a journey upriver, a young couple comes to terms with receiving a priceless gift, only to have it suddenly taken away.
An elderly couple struggles to let go of their successful farm — and the only way of life they’ve known — before it’s too late.
When an aspiring journalist goes digging for a scandal, she finds a community — and a calling.
Immerse yourself in 12 hope-filled stories of abundance, adaptation, and progress.
A group exercise to envision a clean, just future became a climate-fiction contest to create stories of life in that future.
A woman with a gift for communing with spirits struggles to hear her own father in a forest of the dead.
In a city high above the desert, a dew harvester and her friend sacrifice everything to prove the end of the Great Drying is at hand.
Trans girls find acceptance and security among the coral as sole survivors of a storm that submerges their Caribbean island.
With laughter, love, and the help of an old witch, a family provides unconditional support to its witching-hour baby when they need it most.