Green Stories Project

We have a new short story competition for science-minded writers focused on the theme ‘Microbes to the Rescue’, with prizes of £800/$1000 and deadline of 21st September 2023. Details are here. This competition is sponsored by the Environmental Biotechnology Network and aims to use fiction to raise awareness of what microbial systems can do for us. Read More

Before you submit, please checkout full criteria here.

We are re-opening the Green Stories novel prize with a revised deadline of 26th June. The judges didn’t feel that submissions so far met the criteria of reader engagement and green solutions to the extent of meriting the £1000/$1200 prize. A common problem was to show problems rather than solutions, and/or not have enough ‘hooks’ Read More

We have just launched a superhero competition to write 2000 words for a graphic novel (images optional). Deadline is 15th April 2023. Winners get £500 (or other currency equivalent) and their entry illustrated. On a different note, the deadline for the Orna Ross Green Stories novel prize has passed and we’re keen to recruit more Read More

We’re delighted to report that Alex Perry and Kate Hargraves won first prize for the short, fun video ‘The World Is Far Too Much‘. Jamal Langley came a close second with his video ‘Forever Green Terrace‘. Please share using #ClimateCharacters. This is part of a broader project to raise awareness of the environmental impacts of Read More

Prepare early if you plan to submit, as we are keen to ensure that this year, we get more entries that truly meet the criteria of embedding climate solutions, not just raising awareness of green issues. To this end, we ask you to read one or more of our Green Stories publications that we believe Read More

As we have been so busy with other competitions (Eco Santa short story, Short Video) in November and compiling our anthology of short stories: No More Fairy Tales: Stories to Save Our Planet (available end Oct 22), we have extended the deadline for the Orna Ross Novel prize by a month to 3rd January 2023. Read More

Our clean vs green competition attracted a large number of entrants and we were delighted with the standard of entries. Congratulations to Jenni Clarke for writing the winning story ‘Mostly for You, an engaging romance about a crisis of conscience for a professional cleaner who discovers many of the harsh detergents she uses can have Read More

Thank you to everyone that has reached out to offer their support. We really appreciate every single person who has offered up their time and expertise to help with judging all the entries we’ve received. At the moment we have enough judges to judge the Clean Vs Green competition, but if you are interested in Read More

We are delighted to share that Lou Reade has won first prize of £1000 for his novel ‘Unfrozen’. It has the great premise of a man waking up forty odd years into the future after having been cryogenically frozen. The family dynamics of his children now being older than him, and the question of why Read More