2025 Imagine 2200 Contest Winners
Grist, the online environmental magazine, has announced three winners for their Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors Short Story Contest. The contest asks authors to imagine “the future we want — futures in which climate solutions flourish and we all thrive.”
The winners are:
- First Place: “Meet Me Under the Molokhia”, Sage Hoffman Nadeau
- Second Place: “Last Tuesday, for Eternity”, Vinny Rose Pinto
- Third Place: “Mousedeer Versus the Ghost Ships”, Dave Chua
The other finalists were:
- “A Eulogy for Each and Every End”, Jana Bianchi
- “The Ones Left Behind”, K.J. Chien
- “To Rescue a Self”, Arekpitan Ikhenaode
- “We Cast Our Eyes to the Unknowable Now”, Lynn D. Jung
- “This View From Here”, Rich Larson
- “Our Continuity, Each of Us Raindrops”, Parker M. O’Neill
- “The Isle of Beautiful Waters”, Lily Séjor
- “Tangles in the Weave”, Katharine Tyndall
- “Plantains in Heaven”, Kenechi Udogu
First prize is $3,000, second prize $2,000, and third prize $1,000. Nine additional finalists each received $300.
This year’s judges were Omar El Akkad and Annalee Newitz. For more information on the contest and submissions, see Grist’s website.
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