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 was announced in March 2025, and the winner was announced on 14 May 2025 as Abi Daré's And So I Roar. [10] [4] [11]
| Year | Author | Title | Publisher | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Kaliane Bradley | The Ministry of Time | Sceptre, Hodder | Shortlisted | [12] |
| Abi Daré | And So I Roar | Sceptre, Hodder | Won | [12] | |
| Roz Dineen | Briefly Very Beautiful | Bloomsbury Circus | Shortlisted | [12] | |
| Samantha Harvey | Orbital | Jonathan Cape, PRH | Shortlisted | [12] | |
| Téa Obreht | The Morningside | W&N, Orion | Shortlisted | [12] | |
| Julia Armfield | Private Rites | Harper Collins, 4th Estate | Longlisted | [13] | |
| Chioma Okereke | Water Baby | Quercus | Longlisted | [13] | |
| Natasha Pulley | The Mars House | Gollancz, Orion | Longlisted | [13] | |
| Alexis Wright | Praiseworthy | And Other Stories | Longlisted | [13] |