Imagine 2200 Writing Competition with $3,000 Prize from Grist Magazine

Grist Magazine is inviting creative writers all over the world to participate in the ‘Imagine 2200: Climate fiction for future ancestors’ writing competition. Participate with your short stories that envision the next 180 years of equitable climate progress and win a prize of $3000.

Competition Theme:-

• Grist has decided to launch its first foray into the world of hopeful, forward-looking fiction — to inspire visions of the future that haven’t even been dreamt up yet, and welcome more voices into the climate conversation. Join this uprising of imagination, and help turn the page on earth’s next chapter.

• Envision the next 180 years of equitable climate progress. What will the world look like in the year 2200 — or anywhere between then and now? How will we move around the cities of the future? What will we eat, drink, wear, use, and live in? How will we hold our relationships to land, resources, and one another? What kind of a world do you, a future ancestor, want to build? This is your opportunity to build it — on paper.

• Stories should be set anywhere between the present day and the year 2200, and should show our path to a clean, green, and just future.

Eligibility and Conditions:-

• The contest is open to writers anywhere in the world.

• Authors must be 18 years or older at the time of submission.

• Submissions must be short, fictional stories, between 3,000–5,000 words.

• No previously published, multiple, or simultaneous submissions accepted.

• Entry is free.

• Worldwide copyright and ownership of each story remains with the author.

• If a story is accepted for publication, Grist retains the first serial rights of the work to publish, produce, reproduce, distribute, and market. All other remaining rights revert to the author upon publication.

Prizes:-

• The first-prize story will be awarded $3,000; second prize $2,000; and third prize $1,000. 

• Nine additional finalists will each receive a $300 honorarium.

• All 12 final stories will be published in a digital collection on Fix’s website, and the authors will be celebrated in a public-facing virtual event.

About Grist:-

Grist is a non-profit news magazine for people who want a planet that doesn’t burn and a future that doesn’t suck. Grist is committed to telling this story of hope, and accelerating the pace of change, through a program called Fix. The Fix network combines solutions-oriented journalism with gatherings and other activities that bring together a growing community who are helping to blaze a path to a better future.

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