The Inaugural Climate Fiction Prize 2025

The Climate Fiction Prize, in its inaugural year, celebrates the best fiction engaging with the climate crisis, offering readers new responses and ways of exploring the biggest story of our time.

In this event the winner of the first ever Climate Fiction Prize, to be announced in mid-May, will speak to novelist, poet and playwright Owen Sheers. They’ll examine what we mean by ‘climate fiction’ as an expanding literary space, the power of fiction in tackling the crisis, and the vital role the wider arts play in its solution. They’ll explore the ways in which fiction enables society to comprehend the impacts of climate change and manifest responses to combat apathy and doomism.

The Prize is supported by Climate Spring, an organisation using the power of storytelling to change the narrative on the climate crisis.