Climate Fiction Prize

{{Short description|Literary award founded in 2024}}

{{Use British English|date=May 2024}}

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The Climate Fiction Prize is a literary award for climate fiction, launched in June 2024 at the Hay Festival in Wales.{{cite news |last1=Rolt |first1=Amber |title='Change starts with imagination': New Climate Fiction Prize to launch at The Hay Festival this summer |url=https://www.businessgreen.com/news/4198919/change-starts-imagination-climate-fiction-prize-launch-hay-festival-summer |access-date=28 May 2024 |work=www.businessgreen.com |date=19 April 2024 |language=en}}{{cite news |last1=Tsui |first1=Tori |author1-link=Tori Tsui |title=Why a new literary prize for climate fiction will make a difference |url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26234913-200-why-a-new-literary-prize-for-climate-fiction-will-make-a-difference/ |access-date=28 May 2024 |work=New Scientist |date=15 May 2024}}{{cite news |last1=Page |first1=Benedicte |title=New £10k Climate Fiction Prize to launch at Hay Festival |url=https://www.thebookseller.com/news/new-10k-climate-fiction-prize-to-launch-at-hay-festival |access-date=28 May 2024 |work=The Bookseller |date=13 March 2024 |language=En}} The prize "will aim to showcase novels that engage with themes concerning the climate crisis".

The prize, of {{Currency|10,000|gbp}}, 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".{{cite web |title=Our Mission |url=https://www.climate-spring.org/what-we-do#mission |website=www.climate-spring.org |publisher=Climate Spring |access-date=28 May 2024 |language=en}}

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;{{cite web |title=James Cropper Wainwright Prize 2022 shortlists announced |url=https://wainwrightprize.com/news/james-cropper-wainwright-prize-2022-shortlists-announced/ |website=Wainwright Prize |access-date=28 May 2024}} Andy Fryers, Global Sustainability Director of the Hay Festival; David Lindo, known as the Urban Birder; and author and climate activist Tori Tsui.{{cite web |title=Andy Fryers |url=https://www.hayfestival.com/artist.aspx?artistid=1395 |website=www.hayfestival.com |publisher=Hay Festival |access-date=28 May 2024}}{{cite web |title=Madeleine Bunting, Nicola Chester, Lucy Stone and Andy Fryers in conversation |url=https://www.hayfestival.com/p-21774-madeleine-bunting-nicola-chester-lucy-stone-and-andy-fryers-in-conversation.aspx |website=Hay Festival |access-date=28 May 2024 |language=en |date=2 June 2024}}{{cite news |title=Madeleine Bunting to chair major new literary award - The Climate Fiction Prize -to launch at Hay Festival 2024 - The Eco News |url=https://www.theeconews.co.uk/madeleine-bunting-to-chair-major-new-literary-award-the-climate-fiction-prize-to-launch-at-hay-festival-2024/ |access-date=13 June 2024 |work=EcoNews |date=6 June 2024}}

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 was announced in March 2025, and the winner was announced on 14 May 2025 as Abi Daré's And So I Roar.{{cite web |title=Key Dates |url=https://climatefictionprize.co.uk/2025-prize/key-dates/ |website=The Climate Fiction Prize |access-date=26 November 2024}}{{cite news |last1=Colville |first1=Charlie |title=A New Climate Fiction Prize Will Launch At This Year's Hay Festival |url=https://www.countryandtownhouse.com/culture/climate-fiction-prize/ |access-date=28 May 2024 |work=Country and Town House |date=1 May 2024}}{{cite web |title=The Inaugural Climate Fiction Prize 2025 |url=https://www.hayfestival.com/p-23556-the-inaugural-climate-fiction-prize-2025.aspx |website=Hay Festival Anytime |access-date=25 June 2025}}