The 2024 Imagine climate fiction contest
12 brand-new climate fiction short stories feature vivid, hope-filled, diverse visions of climate progress. Discover this year's winning stories now.
12 brand-new climate fiction short stories feature vivid, hope-filled, diverse visions of climate progress. Discover this year's winning stories now.
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 towards a better reality.
A young woman finds herself called back to her home, to help protect a river that nourished her and her community.
When a minor disaster shakes up the plans for a local ceremony, a young woman and her colleagues pull together to provide for the community.
A mother and her teenager navigate the challenges of moving to a new community and starting a new life.
An inquisitive drone responsible for protecting a forest ecosystem stumbles upon a surprise deep in the woods.
In land once claimed by Russia, a magical deer joins a young girl as she grows up and changes her land for the better.
A set of adult twins return to their Gulf Coast hometown to rewild the land, and remember the family who came before them.
A bioengineer grappling with a challenging problem finds the answer in the dreams of her dying grandmother.
Tiny robots eat plastic, tattoos livestream video, we all swim with dolphins, and more amazing vignettes from a better future.
The last four creatures on Earth make an amazing discovery as the oldest of them finally returns home.
During a journey upriver, a young couple comes to terms with receiving a priceless gift, only to have it suddenly taken away.
An elderly couple struggles to let go of their successful farm — and the only way of life they’ve known — before it’s too late.
When an aspiring journalist goes digging for a scandal, she finds a community — and a calling.
Immerse yourself in 12 hope-filled stories of abundance, adaptation, and progress.
A woman with a gift for communing with spirits struggles to hear her own father in a forest of the dead.
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.