Nicola Chester, Andy Fryers and Tori Tsui talk to Madeleine Bunting

Celebrate the ways in which storytelling can tackle the climate crisis with the official launch of the Climate Fiction Prize. The Prize aims to showcase novels of powerful literary merit and to solidify climate fiction as a genre in its own right, as well as inspire new narratives. In the prize’s inaugural year, judges Nicola Chester (author of On Gallows Down), Andy Fryers (Hay Festival Sustainability Director) and Tori Tsui (climate justice activist and writer) speak to writer and journalist Madeleine Bunting, the Chair of Judges. Their discussion explores the ways in which fiction enables society to comprehend the impacts of climate change and manifest responses to combat apathy and doomism. The Prize is supported by Climate Spring, an organisation using the power of storytelling to change the narrative on the climate crisis.