Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors − Grist Magazine

Heat (by geralt, via pixabay.com).

Welcome to the 2025 Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors collection…This year’s contest recognizes that the urgency of that visioning has never been higher. More than ever, we need climate fiction as encouragement to look beyond the current moment to picture what could be, to center voices from around the world and particularly those most impacted by the climate crisis, and to challenge us to remember that at the heart of climate solutions is human promise and ingenuity…

Replay Boomer – Grist Magazine, Imagine 2200 Climate Fiction Initiative

Teenage Retro (CC0 1.0 Public Domain via PxHere)

Imagine 2200, Grist’s climate fiction initiative, publishes stories that envision the next 180 years of equitable climate progress, imagining intersectional worlds of abundance, adaptation, reform, and hope.

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Breakfast is interrupted by a crash that shakes the house to its foundations. Out the window, the wet coastal view is obscured by a spray of dust and foam. Another house has slid into the sea…

Imagine 2200: Write the future (short story fiction contest) – Grist Magazine

Day 34: Dystopia (by Paul Howard CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 via Flickr).

Submissions are now open for the 2023/2024 Imagine 2200 climate fiction short story contest, celebrating the futures we want to see.

Grist is excited to announce our third-annual climate fiction short story contest, Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors. 

Imagine 2200 is an invitation to writers from all over the globe to imagine a future in which solutions to the climate crisis flourish and help bring about radical improvements to our world. We dare you to dream anew…