Introducing Imagine 2200: Our original cli-fi contest
Grist’s strategies lab, Repair, is overjoyed to suppose the originate of our first-ever climate-fiction brief narrative contest — Imagine 2200: Local weather fiction for future ancestors. We’re dipping a toe into the world of fiction, and we need you to join us.
Grist’s mission is to web the narrative of a closer world so irresistible, you wish it apt now. Our award-a success journalism has accomplished that for the previous 20 years (if we attain squawk so ourselves). And now, with this contest, we’re embracing the different to brand beyond the confines of the brand moment and share visions of strategies that haven’t even been dreamt up yet. Imagine 2200 attracts inspiration from Afrofuturism, as smartly as Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, disabled, feminist, and ordinary futures, and the genres of hopepunk and solarpunk. We particularly are looking out to brand — and share — reviews that heart climate strategies from basically the most impacted communities and express into focal point what a if truth be told honest, regenerative future might maybe brand savor.
Gain all the pieces that you must always post a story in our Submissions portal.
Submissions are now delivery. We’re calling for 3,000- to five,000-be conscious reviews that envision the next 180 years of climate development — roughly seven generations. The a success creator will seemingly be awarded $3,000, with the 2nd- and third-place of residing finalists receiving $2,000 and $1,000, respectively. An further nine finalists will every web a $300 honorarium. Winners and finalists will seemingly be published in a heavenly (have faith us), immersive digital sequence on Repair’s internet residing and might maybe smartly be celebrated in a public-facing virtual tournament. Our board of knowledgeable literary judges contains authors Adrienne Maree Brown, Morgan Jerkins, and Kiese Laymon.
Fetch answers to your complete questions here, or indubitably be at liberty to contact us.
Desirous to learn more? We’ve integrated some FAQs below. If you’re ready to salvage writing (and are looking out to abet spread the be conscious), that you might web our submissions portal here. And while you’d web to salvage in contact, that you might reach us at [email protected].
Imagine FAQs
Q. How did this complete thing salvage started?
A.In the spring of 2020, Repair convened a personnel of climate and justice leaders for a multiday gathering. Thru a visioning exercise, we collectively charted out the next 180 years of climate development, focusing on the honest of a neat, green, and honest future within the 365 days 2200. This meeting visualized a complete societal transformation: A dissolution of political events and borders. Reparations. The return of land to Indigenous and Black stewardship. Restorative justice changing prisons. Granting rights to the earth and non-human kinfolk. Food sovereignty and heirloom seeds triumphing over monoculture farming. An economy constructed on ecological restoration, mutual abet, and care work. The pursuit of apt relationships in all our methods and designs.
Out of their visions grew the foundation for a climate-fiction initiative, to buy up more voices within the climate narrative, and to breathe life into the tips we heard.
Q. Why fiction? And what’s cli-fi, anyway?
A. Fiction provides us a chance to guage the world we are looking out to are living in, in a draw that journalism doesn’t. Our hope is that the reviews presented within the Imagine 2200 sequence will encourage, satisfaction, and encourage readers to elevate motion to web aspects of these worlds a truth.
Even supposing it has deep roots, climate-fiction (cli-fi) has been coming into its beget as a genre over the final a whole lot of years. (In fact, with the issue our planet’s in, it’s been posited that any reviews that don’t elevate into consideration the fate of the climate will soon originate to brand honest otherworldly.) Repair is entering into the game to offer cli-fi that’s hopeful, intersectional, and grounded in justice.
Q. OK, I’m in! How attain I post a story, and how can I abet spread the be conscious?
A. Head apt here. If you’d web to web current updates from us and abet salvage the be conscious out to infinity and beyond, tumble us a brand at [email protected].
Q. Does my narrative must be residing within the 365 days 2200?
A. Nah. We’d be honest as chuffed to brand your visions for wonderful, honest, and regenerative worlds in 2136 or 2098. Or some unspecified time (as prolonged because it’s in some unspecified time in the future). That you just might even brand us a snapshot of the true work and struggle that might maybe be wished within the approach-er future to salvage us on the apt direction to 2200 — because we brand it’s going to elevate true work and struggle.
Q. TBH, I’m not that hopeful relating to the kind ahead for the planet. Can my narrative be grimdark and apocalyptic?
A. Why would you wish to web us unhappy? Jokes apart, we’re not asking someone to feign optimism or paint a rosy, pollyannaish image of a struggle-free climate utopia. Nevertheless our name is Repair, despite all the pieces, and we are a strategies lab. We’re not at chance of publish any reviews a couple of planet that burns and a future that sucks.
Q. Can my narrative contain supernatural or fantastical aspects?
A. Particular! We are in a position to be judging reviews in allotment in conserving with the rigor of environmental, scientific, historical, and/or cultural background that goes into them. Nevertheless we’re delivery to magical realism, spiritual aspects, and supernatural twists, particularly the place they’re culturally necessary. Correct please chorus from going corpulent Superstar Wars or Game of Thrones, OK?
Q. I treasure this!
A.Thanks! Us, too.