The 2025 Imagine climate fiction contest collection
Explore 12 brand-new climate fiction short stories that invite us to imagine the future we want — futures in which climate solutions flourish and we all thrive.
Climate Fiction
About Imagine 2200
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 toward a better reality.
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Imagine 2200: The 2021 collection
Immerse yourself in 12 hope-filled stories of abundance, adaptation, and progress.
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The Case of the Turned Tide
Two detectives face an ethical dilemma as they solve a mystery for a corporate client with the power to improve the lives of millions.
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A Séance in the Anthropocene
Long after the age of fossil fuels has drawn to a close, a Cherokee teenager attending an elite tribal school puts the last ghosts of coal and oil to rest.
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Afterglow
As the wealthy flee Earth, a young woman must decide whether to follow her partner to a new world or stay behind to save a dying planet.
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Canvas – Wax – Moon
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.
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Broken From the Colony
Trans girls find acceptance and security among the coral as sole survivors of a storm that submerges their Caribbean island.
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How Imagine 2200 came to life
A group exercise to envision a clean, just future became a climate-fiction contest to create stories of life in that future.
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The Tree in the Back Yard
A woman with a gift for communing with spirits struggles to hear her own father in a forest of the dead.
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The Cloud Weaver’s Song
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.
