Climate Fiction Prize Explained
The Climate Fiction Prize is a literary award for climate fiction, launched in June 2024 at the Hay Festival in Wales.[1] [2] [3] The prize "will aim to showcase novels that engage with themes concerning the climate crisis".
The prize, of, is supported by Climate Spring, whose mission statement describes it as "a global organisation with the aim to harness the storytelling power of film and TV to shift how society perceives and responds to the climate crisis".[4]
The judges in the first year are writers Madeleine Bunting (chair of the judges) and Nicola Chester, whose On Gallows Down was shortlisted for 2022 Wainwright Prize;[5] Andy Fryers, Global Sustainability Director of the Hay Festival; David Lindo, known as the Urban Birder; and author and climate activist Tori Tsui.[6] [7] [8] In the inaugural year of the award, titles were to be submitted from 3 June to 1 July 2024; the longlist was announced on 20 November 2024, the shortlist will be announced in "[UK] spring 2025", and the winner will be announced in May 2025.[9] [10]
Winners and shortlisted and longlisted titles
Winners and long/shortlisted titles| Year | Author | Title | Publisher | Result | Ref. |
|---|
| 2025 | | Private Rites | Harper Collins, 4th Estate | Longlisted | [11] |
|---|
| | Sceptre, Hodder | Longlisted |
| And So I Roar | Sceptre, Hodder | Longlisted |
| Briefly Very Beautiful | Bloomsbury Circus | Longlisted |
| Orbital | Jonathan Cape, PRH | Longlisted |
| | W&N, Orion | Longlisted |
| Water Baby | Quercus | Longlisted |
| | Gollancz, Orion | Longlisted |
| Praiseworthy | And Other Stories | Longlisted | |
Notes and References
- News: Rolt . Amber . 'Change starts with imagination': New Climate Fiction Prize to launch at The Hay Festival this summer . 28 May 2024 . www.businessgreen.com . 19 April 2024 . en.
- News: Tsui . Tori . Tori Tsui . Why a new literary prize for climate fiction will make a difference . 28 May 2024 . New Scientist . 15 May 2024.
- News: Page . Benedicte . New £10k Climate Fiction Prize to launch at Hay Festival . 28 May 2024 . The Bookseller . 13 March 2024 . En.
- Web site: Our Mission . www.climate-spring.org . Climate Spring . 28 May 2024 . en.
- Web site: James Cropper Wainwright Prize 2022 shortlists announced . Wainwright Prize . 28 May 2024.
- Web site: Andy Fryers . www.hayfestival.com . Hay Festival . 28 May 2024.
- Web site: Madeleine Bunting, Nicola Chester, Lucy Stone and Andy Fryers in conversation . Hay Festival . 28 May 2024 . en . 2 June 2024.
- News: Madeleine Bunting to chair major new literary award - The Climate Fiction Prize -to launch at Hay Festival 2024 - The Eco News . 13 June 2024 . EcoNews . 6 June 2024.
- Web site: Key Dates . The Climate Fiction Prize . 26 November 2024.
- News: Colville . Charlie . A New Climate Fiction Prize Will Launch At This Year's Hay Festival . 28 May 2024 . Country and Town House . 1 May 2024.
- Web site: Explore the longlist . 26 November 2024 . The Climate Fiction Prize.
