We are a group of authors who believe in the necessity of climate action, immediately and absolutely.
Fiction is one of the best ways to inspire passion, empathy and action in readers. Our works raise awareness of climate change, and encourage action at the individual, corporate and government levels.
“A body of writers working for a common cause cannot fail to influence public opinion.” – Women Writers Suffrage League, 1908
Our Members
Find out more about our 130+ authors from around the world here, or explore their writing here. You can find a list of all members’ Twitter accounts here.
Read our writing
Can a climate fiction novel be uplifting? by Lauren James
As a former physicist, my writing is always science focussed. I’ve written a book about space travel inspired by special relativity (The Loneliest Girl in the Universe), a post-apocalyptic novel based on extinction and evolution (The Quiet at the End of the World), and multiple other stories with scientists at their heart. From the beginning…
Young activists – to be encouraged! by Anthea Simmons
I am really proud to have written a book about young activists. The young are all too often dismissed as naïve and ill-informed, when they are often quite the reverse. Clear-sighted and unburdened by the baggage of political bias or tribalism or the potential drag of adult experience, they see the world with an energy…
Geoengineering – what is it, and why should we be worried? by David Barker
I remember reading, twenty-five years ago, Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy about the colonization of the red planet. The idea that we humans could, over many decades, terraform an inhospitable, deadly atmosphere into something living seemed very cool. Back then I had no idea that our own planet’s atmosphere might become hostile in my lifetime.…
Rewilding and our connections with the natural world by Nicola Penfold
My first book Where The World Turns Wild came out in February last year, just as the COVID-19 crisis was building. Readers contacted me to say how struck they were by eerie parallels with the dystopian nightmare we were all living through: the virus there wasn’t (then) a vaccine for; the locked down cities; the…
Using bat illustrations to write about big issues for young children by Emma Reynolds
Picture books are powerful – they are often human’s first experiences of stories, and as such they have the power to literally shape who we are, and we carry these stories and messages into adulthood. They are also a chance for bonding between a child and their adult, often read at bedtime snuggled up together…
Journalism inspiring Fiction
by Joanne O’Connell My debut novel, Beauty and the Bin was partly inspired by my food journalism, particularly by a column I wrote for the Guardian, about giving up supermarkets. For twelve months, I whizzed nettles into pesto, baked my own bread, grew vegetables, and stocked up on everything from chilli flakes to tomato ketchup at my local…
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We write about climate change because we want to start a conversation about how society can start to fix planetary pollution. If you enjoy our works, please share and discuss to keep the conversation going. The best way to support authors is through reviews on Amazon, Goodreads and your local bookshop’s website.
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Anyone could write the next, great climate change novel. Why not pick up a pen, and use your passion for climate activism to create something special today?
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Our newsletter runs every two weeks, and each issue features an essay about writing climate fiction by one of our members, an interview with the author of a newly published book, and a round-up of recent climate news.
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Are you a traditionally published author, writing about climate change? Whether it’s eco-fiction, “cli-fi”, or environmental fables, we want to hear from you. If you currently have a novel, poetry collection or play published (or under contract for publication), contact us to request to join the league. You can write about your work for our blog, have your book featured on our website, join a private Slack group to discuss your climate research with other writers, and receive details about anyone looking for speakers in your area. Apply here for membership.
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Recent Updates
On Writing Nature with Agency
by Sarah Blake, author of the adult dystopian novel Clean Air Most of us are familiar with parts of nature being personified in our books and in the shows and movies we watch. My earliest memory of personification might be a face drawn on a cloud, cheeks puffed out, blowing a gust of wind through…
How speculative fiction thinks about social change by Andrew Dana Hudson
This essay was originally published in Imaginary Papers, January 2019. Today the Imagination and Climate Futures Initiative released Everything Change, Volume II, a short story anthology collecting the finalists of their 2018 Climate Fiction Contest. I had the honor of having my story “Sunshine State,” cowritten with Adam Flynn, included in the first Everything Change…
The Art and Craft of Climate Fiction by Claire Datnow
Eco-fiction and climate fiction include environmental and nature themes, which can be written in a wide variety of styles and span all genres including mystery, romance, thriller, coming-of-age, dystopian, utopian, magical realism, and realist fiction. This sub-genre can be as diverse as our natural world. It is multicultural, global—and may include animals too. Environmental fiction…
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