We Demand Stories about Climate with a Future

There is a deluge of stories centering climate disaster, climate collapse. But dystopia does not directly lead itself to conversations around solutions. We demand stories that engage with the spiritual, the political, and the technological insights that lead to worlds we want to live in. We Demand Climate Fiction with a Future.

​BrightFlame (she/they) writes, teaches, and makes magic for bright futures. In addition to her speculative solarpunk novel *THE WORKING*, her climate fiction appears in numerous publications, most recently in *Bright Green Futures* and *Solarpunk Creatures* anthologies. In addition to BSFW, she's a member of the Climate Fiction Writers League and the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association. Her globally acclaimed workshops for magical and mundane audiences boost interconnection and resilience. She co-founded the Center for Sustainable Futures at Columbia University that features her workshops and nonfiction. She lives on Lenape territory (Turtle Island/US). brightflame.com

Jamie Liu (she/they) is a writer, climate resilience planner, and Sunrise Movement volunteer. She was born and raised in the San Gabriel Valley, California, and currently lives in Brooklyn. Her short story "To Labor for the Hive" won Grist's third Imagine 2200 contest and is published in Metamorphosis: Climate Fiction for a Better Future.

Miranda Nayyar has worked in the climate change profession for almost a decade, first across sustainability non-profits including CDP and the Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTi) and now as a Senior Manager in the Climate Change practice at EY, where she advises some of the largest corporations in the world on reducing emissions and shifting business models in support of a 1.5C future. She is also a board member of Earth Hacks, an organization dedicated to environmental hackathons. 

Miranda is a member of Brooklyn Speculative Fiction Writers group where she’s just completed her first novel based in a fantastical and nature-filled world about a girl’s journey exploring the Wilds. 

As a stubborn optimist, Miranda believes that while it’s critical to understand the stakes of inaction on climate, she also believes it’s just as important to collectively imagine a positive, hopeful future of human populations flourishing within the confines of planetary boundaries.