Climate Fiction Prize longlist will be announced on 20th November

We were blown away by the wide range of books, genres and styles submitted for the inaugural year of this new literary prize, celebrating the power of storytelling in addressing the climate crisis.
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The aim of the prize is to reward and showcase novels of powerful literary merit and to solidify, grow and expand fiction that engages with the climate crisis. The founders are Leo Barasi, author of The Climate Majority, Rose Goddard, executive director at Wimbledon BookFest and former prize manager of the Women’s Prize for Fiction, and Imran Khan, former head of public engagement at the Wellcome Trust, now at UC Berkeley.

In the prize’s inaugural year, writer Madeleine Bunting will be chair of judges, and joined by climate justice activist and writer Tori Tsui, author Nicola Chester, whose On Gallows Down was shortlisted for the James Cropper Wainwright Prize, and Andy Fryers, Hay Festival’s sustainability director.

The new, major literary prize, supported by Climate Spring, will award £10,000 to the winner, with the first prize being awarded in spring 2025.

Read more about how the Climate Fiction Prize champions and supports the Climate Fiction genre.