'Change starts with imagination': New Climate Fiction Prize to launch at The Hay Festival this summer

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Credit: The Hay Festival

Prize aims to showcase novels of powerful literary merit and celebrate fiction which engages with the climate crisis

Climate storytelling organisation Climate Spring has announced it is to support a new climate focused literary award that will launch at The Hay Festival in June this year, making it the first award to...

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