Climate Fiction Prize

The Climate Fiction Prize is a literary award for climate fiction, launched in June 2024 at the Hay Festival in Wales. The prize "will aim to showcase novels that engage with themes concerning the climate crisis".

The prize, of £10,000, 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".

The judges in the first year are writers Nicola Chester, whose On Gallows Down was shortlisted for 2022 Wainwright Prize, and Madeleine Bunting (chair of the judges); Andy Fryers (Global Sustainability Director of the Hay Festival), author and climate activist Tori Tsui; and David Lindo, AKA the Urban Birder. In the inaugural year of the award, titles are to be submitted from 3 June 2024, the shortlist and longlist will be announced later in 2024, and the winner will be announced early ("in [UK] spring") in 2025.