The Climate Voice
“Your silence will not protect you.”
—Audre Lorde
The Climate Voice is a space for you to share your thoughts and feelings about the climate crisis. Share with us your poems & your stories, your fears & your hopes, your memories & your aspirations for the future. Send us writing that roars like the ocean and sings like the wind. This is a platform for you to use creative writing to raise your voice and be heard.
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Guidelines:
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Prose should not be longer than 2500 words.
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Poems should not be longer than 80 lines each.
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Send us up to 1 prose piece and/or two poems at a time.
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Submissions will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
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Send your piece as a PDF file to theclimatopiaproject@gmail.com with the subject line: ‘Submission: The Climate Voice’. Please include your full name in the body of the email.
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If you would like us to add you to our mailing list, please include "Add me" in the subject line of your email as well.
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You can submit short stories, poems, letters, essays, journal entries, and creative non-fiction. We also accept hybrid forms such as lyric essays and prose poems.
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All entries must be mainly written in English. You may include phrases in other languages, as long as the main body of the piece is in English.
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All entries must be original. Plagiarism is not tolerated. Please cite any work that you may have incorporated in your piece.
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The Climatopia Project will not accept work that discriminates against any group of people.
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We accept previously published work. If your piece has previously been published, please make sure to let us konw that so we can credit the original place of publication.
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Find resources, prompts, and tips here. Please feel free to contact Climatopia, should you have any questions.
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Read published work here!