Submissions for the Climate Fiction Prize are open following its official launch at Hay Festival in Hay-on-Wye

We were thrilled to officially launch the Climate Fiction Prize at this year’s Hay Festival 2024 in Hay-on-Wye. 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.

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. 

Following its launch at the Hay Festival, submissions are open until 1st July 2024. 

For further information and criteria, visit: Climate Fiction Prize website or email hello@climatefictionprize.com

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