Imagine 2200 is Grist’s climate fiction initiative, engaging writers from 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 provide flickers of hope, even joy, and serve as a springboard for exploring how fiction can help create a better reality.
We aim to showcase stories of creative climate solutions and community-centered adaptations, with an emphasis on uplifting voices and cultures from the communities most impacted by the climate crisis.
The heart of climate fiction at Grist is our annual short story contest celebrating hope-filled tales of just, sustainable futures.
Inspired by Afrofuturism, as well as Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, disabled, feminist, and queer futurisms, the contest is also grounded in hopepunk and solarpunk — literary genres that uplift equitable climate solutions and continued service to one’s community, even in the face of despair.
To date we have received submissions from nearly 100 countries and published 36 winners in three stunning collections.
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Illustration: Carolina Rodriguez Fuenmayor
Explore all Imagine collections
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Contest2024 Imagine collection
Grist’s third Imagine contest offers 12 brand-new short stories with vivid, hope-filled, diverse visions of climate progress.
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CollectionBest of: audio stories
Immerse yourself in Imagine stories, and take them with you wherever you go, with this audiobook compilation of some of our most vivid tales published so far.
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Collection2023 Editors’ Picks
Three stories handpicked by our editors that showcase tales of daring and adventure set in climate-adapted futures.
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Contest2022 Imagine collection
In our second-annual collection, discover stories of food sovereignty, cooperation over competition, and ecological restoration.
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Contest2021 Imagine collection
Our first climate fiction contest featured 12 stories of intersectional worlds in which no community is left behind.
Questions? Email imaginefiction [at] grist.org
