Enter the first Europeana Creative Climate Action Award! Submit your 500-word story or poem in response to our gallery of climate action imagery. Free to enter.
Nature and the environment have always been themes of writing and poetry, and today, there are a growing number of writers who address the climate crisis theme in their fiction, poetry, essays or other outputs. Humans - and our planet itself - are adaptable. There is time to change. There is still opportunity to engage society in this crisis and show what humans are capable of in coming together and evoking change.
We’re looking for fiction stories or poems written in English, of 500 words or less, that are inspired by one or more of the images in our Creative Climate Action Award gallery. Together, we can offer ideas, hopes and potential solutions to the climate crisis. Publication and prizes for winners.
Entrants must be 18 or over.
Free to enter.
Find out more here
Deadline: 11 January 2026 23:59
Image credit: ©Untitled, Creator: Dimitris Kostas, Institution: Athens School of Fine Arts, CC BY-SA