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Taj Francis

Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors 2024 contest collection

Grist’s Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors short story contest celebrates stories that offer vivid, hope-filled, diverse visions of climate progress. From 1,000 submissions, our reviewers and judges selected the three winners and nine finalists you will discover in this collection. These stories are not afraid to explore the challenges ahead, but offer hope that we can work together to build a more sustainable and just world. Through rich characters, lovingly sketched settings, and gripping plots, they welcome you into futures that celebrate who we are and what we can become — and, we hope, inspire you to work toward them.

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The 2024 Imagine contest collection

The power of climate fiction

A note from Grist's Imagine 2200 creative manager on the importance of hopeful, authentic climate fiction storytelling.

Credits

 
CONTRIBUTORS

CONTEST JUDGES

Paolo Bacigalupi, Nalo Hopkinson, Sam J. Miller

STORY REVIEWERS

Chinelo Onwualu, Mimi Mondal, Sarena Ulibarri

SLUSH READER

Brianna Castagnozzi

ILLUSTRATORS

Taj Francis, Carolina Rodriguez Fuenmayor, Stefan Grosse Halbuer, Mikyung Lee, Molly Mendoza

FOR GRIST

CLIMATE FICTION CREATIVE MANAGER

Tory Stephens

PROJECT DIRECTOR

Jess Stahl

OPERATIONS DIRECTOR

Lisa Jurras-Buchanan

PROJECT COORDINATOR

Josh Kimelman

PRODUCT MANAGER

Jason Castro

ART + DESIGN

Amelia Bates, Teresa Chin, Mia Torres, Mignon Khargie

COPYEDITING

Jaime Buerger, Claire Elise Thompson, Joseph Winters, Kate Yoder

AUDIENCE DIRECTOR

Megan Merrigan

SOCIAL MEDIA PRODUCER

Justin Ray