Applications are now open for the Climate Futures Prize, a fiction story contest that encourages young people to channel their creativity and imagination into liberated visions of the future.
Donor Name: Climate Vanguard
Country: All Countries
Type of Grant: Prize
Deadline: 09/01/2023
Size of the Grant: £300
Details:
Stories of planetary liberation are critical in grounding the struggle today. They offer a sense of direction in a dizzying world of compounding crises.
Elements
Here are some elements to consider in your story:
- The radical transformations needed to stop Earth systems collapse and build a liberated future.
- What it looks and feels like to live in a post-capitalist world where human needs are met within planetary boundaries.
- A world of decolonization and global justice.
- Societies that centre care, joy, compassion, and inter being.
- Recognition that the pathway toward progress will necessitate work, struggle, sacrifice, and adaptation to ongoing planetary destabilization.
Prizes and Selection Process
- The stories will be judged by a panel of youth climate justice activists. Four winners will be selected: three general prizes and one under-18 prize.
- 1st Place: £300
- 2nd Place: £200
- 3rd Place: £100
- Under-18 Winner
- 1st Place: £100
- Note: All under-18 authors will be considered for the general prize. In the eventuality that one, or many, under-18 authors win a general prize, the next best under-18 author will be selected for the under-18 prize.
- All winning stories will be published on the Climate Vanguard website, featured on Climate Vanguard social media, and authors will be invited for an online event to discuss their stories.
Rules
- Story time horizons should, at a minimum, reach into the 2100s
- The story must be 2,000 to 4,000 words
- All authors must be 25 years old or under
- Stories need to be written in English. Recognizing that this may not be the first language for many authors, the judges will place emphasis on the content of the story, not the language.
- Stories must be original and not have been previously published
- Only one submission per entrant
- Submissions can be co-authored
For more information, visit Climate Vanguard.
