The Climate Fiction Prize is a literary award for climate fiction, launched in June 2024 at the Hay Festival in Wales.
[1][2][3] The prize "will aim to showcase novels that engage with themes concerning the climate crisis".
[4] 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".
[5] 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;[6] Andy Fryers, Global Sustainability Director of the Hay Festival; David Lindo, known as the Urban Birder; and author and climate activist Tori Tsui.
[7][8][9] 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 will be announced in "[UK] spring 2025", and the winner will be announced in May 2025.