We crowned Helen Phillips the 2026 winner of the Climate Fiction Prize last Wednesday. A huge thank you to our fantastic judges, Arifa Akbar, Dr Friederike Otto, Jessie Greengrass, Simon Savidge and Kit de Waal for the care and dedication they poured into this year's prize cycle. 🧡

Congrats to @helencphillips.bsky.social 🥳

The Bookseller@thebookseller.com · 5mo ago

Helen Phillips has been awarded the 2026 Climate Fiction Prize for Hum (@atlanticbooks.bsky.social), an “extremely prescient” novel the judges said “powerfully encapsulates the intersection between technology, AI and climate.” 👇

www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m... Congratulations to Helen Phillips on winning the @climate-fiction.bsky.social 2026 #booksky

Novel about ‘Disneyfication’ of nature wins climate fiction prize

Hum, Helen Phillips’ third novel, featuring a woman whose job is taken by a humanoid robot, is a terrifying look into a future where AI rules and nature is scarce

theguardian.com

We're thrilled to announce that Hum by Helen Phillips is the winner of the 2026 Climate Fiction Prize! “Hum deals with love, community and family in the face of the climate crisis, privilege and the age of AI.” Arifa Akbar, Chair of Judges

TOMORROW'S THE DAY! We're 24 hours away from crowning the 2026 winner of the Climate Fiction Prize! Who else is excited? 🙋

Reading outside comfort zones, passionate conversations and a lot of hope! ✨ Here's what surprised our judges about reading for the prize!

📚 From whittling down submissions to a longlist of twelve brilliant books to a shortlist of six thrilling novels has been quite the task for our judges. 🎤 Hear from them about what's been the hardest part of judging the Climate Fiction Prize! P.S. Winner announcement in less than 10 days! Ready?👀

"I sometimes imagined the novel as a threshold place, where things come together, where many things might touch, before they break apart once more." Grief and longing bore Madeleine Thien's deeply moving novel, The Book of Records. Read the full interview: climatefictionprize.co.uk/the-book-of-...

"Conservation work doesn’t end during war. The need to protect against ecocide becomes all the more urgent." For Maria Reva, two distinct obsessions collided perfectly to inform her novel, Endling. Read the full interview on our website: climatefictionprize.co.uk/endling-by-m...

"For better or worse, I draw a great deal of inspiration from my anxiety. I did a lot of research enabled me to engage with the anxiety and transform it into a narrative." Helen Phillips on the mind-reading algorithms behind Hum. Read more: climatefictionprize.co.uk/hum-by-helen-phillips/

"We’re in a frightening moment of compounding crises. And we’re in a moment of tremendous care, too." Susanna Kwan takes us through the moments of care and disaster that led her to write her novel, Awake in the Floating City. Read more here: climatefictionprize.co.uk/awake-in-the...

"The writers I admire most are what I think of as "seriously funny", meaning very funny and deadly serious." Learn about the mix of academia, journalism and literature that birthed Keshava Guha's novel, The Tiger's Share. Read the full interview here: climatefictionprize.co.uk/the-tigers-s...

"I don’t try to imbue my work with messages or meaning — I just try and pack it with passion." We got five minutes with Robbie Arnott to speak with him about his Climate Fiction Prize-shortlisted novel, Dusk. Read the full interview here: climatefictionprize.co.uk/dusk-by-robb...

"It's a book about how time and space connects - has always connected - in unexpected ways." Dr Friederike Otto reflects on Madeleine Thien's philosophical time and space-bending novel, The Book of Records. Discover the six shortlisted books here: climatefictionprize.co.uk/shortlist-20...

"Funny, pacy, experimental and a romp" Climate Fiction Prize Judge, @savidgereads.bsky.social shares what he thinks makes Maria Reva's novel, Endling unputdownable. Learn more about the shortlisted books here: climatefictionprize.co.uk/shortlist-20...

"Beautifully written [...] almost like a sort of gem" Jessie Greengrass on Helen Phillips' Hum, an exploration of family life in a future with heightened surveillance and guarded access to nature. To find out more about the six shortlisted books, visit: climatefictionprize.co.uk/shortlist-20...

"A humorous hopeful read alongside being about extreme danger and grief." Arifa Akbar on Susanna Kwan's exploration of community in the face of climate crisis, Awake in the Floating City. Discover more about the shortlisted books here: climatefictionprize.co.uk/shortlist-20...

"You wouldn't expect to laugh with the topic of terrible environmental destruction, but I actually laughed a lot reading this." Here's Climate Fiction Prize judge, Dr Friederike Otto, speaking on Keshava Guha's The Tiger's Share. The shortlist: climatefictionprize.co.uk/shortlist-20...

"Utterly original and tender" Watch Climate Fiction Prize chair of judges, Arifa Akbar speak on the first book on our shortlist spotlight: Dusk by Robbie Arnott. (Chatto & Windus, Vintage) Discover more about Dusk and the other shortlisted books here: climatefictionprize.co.uk/shortlist-20...

Well that's my Easter reading list sorted...

Climate Fiction Prize@climate-fiction.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The 2026 Climate Fiction Prize shortlist is here! 🤩 📚️ The Climate Fiction Prize, supported by Climate Spring, brings together six spectacularly wide-ranging novels for our 2026 shortlist, exploring the climate crisis, and our response to it. Discover the shortlist: climatefictionprize.co.uk

I really like the look of this list! I’ve already read three: Endling, Hum and Dusk, which are very different from each other, but excellent in their own way. Endling is probably my favourite - but I’d like to read the other three too! 📚💙

Climate Fiction Prize@climate-fiction.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The 2026 Climate Fiction Prize shortlist is here! 🤩 📚️ The Climate Fiction Prize, supported by Climate Spring, brings together six spectacularly wide-ranging novels for our 2026 shortlist, exploring the climate crisis, and our response to it. Discover the shortlist: climatefictionprize.co.uk

The 2026 Climate Fiction Prize shortlist is here! 🤩 📚️ The Climate Fiction Prize, supported by Climate Spring, brings together six spectacularly wide-ranging novels for our 2026 shortlist, exploring the climate crisis, and our response to it. Discover the shortlist: climatefictionprize.co.uk

Yesterday, Climate Spring's Director Lucy Stone and Climate Fiction Prize judge, Simon Savidge took to the main stage at London Book Fair to discuss why climate fiction is an exciting and pertinent genre. Shortlist announced on March 18. The longlist: climatefictionprize.co.uk/longlist-2026/

We want to hear your guesses! 👀 With less than one week to go till the shortlist is announced we want to know which books you think will end up on the 2026 Climate Fiction Prize shortlist. Share your predictions!

Shortlist day is right around the corner! 1 week to go till the 2026 Climate Fiction Prize shortlist is announced!! How many of the longlisted books have you read?

We're thrilled to share that we'll be at @hayfestival.bsky.social this May! 🪁 Join us for an insightful conversation with the winner of the Climate Fiction Prize in the first live conversation following the winner announcement on May 27. Full programme: www.hayfestival.com/m-232-hay-fe...

🚨 Shortlist event alert 🚨 Under three weeks till the Climate Fiction Prize shortlist is unveiled on March 18th, and we're thrilled to invite you to join us for a FREE special Climate Fiction Prize Shortlist event at The Conduit, London to mark the occasion! 🎟️: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-2026-c...

🌟 We'll be at London Book Fair! 🌟 Climate Fiction Prize Judge, Simon Savidge, and Climate Spring's Lucy Stone will discuss how climate stories don’t just sound the alarm, but help us imagine what it means to live, adapt and dream in a fast changing world. www.londonbookfair.co.uk/en-gb/get-ti...

If you're into any kind of #climatecomms, you could treat yourself to a new book from the Climate Fiction longlist, to end your week. Can confirm or deny that more books are en route to my house, and no, I don't know which overfull bookshelf they will go on either.

Climate Fiction Prize@climate-fiction.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The Climate Fiction Prize 2026 longlist is here! 🤩📚 This longlist shows the limitless scope of climate fiction, from gripping thrillers to experimental literary works, folklore and reimagined myths to science fiction and generational family saga. Full list here: climatefictionprize.co.uk

Join us for a special event celebrating the 2026 Climate Fiction Prize shortlist, following its announcement on March 18 with judges, Arifa Akbar, Dr. Friederike Otto, Jessie Greengrass and Simon Savidge. 🗓️ Wednesday, 18 March 🕗 6:00 pm 📍 The Conduit 🔗 Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-2026-c...