BFL30 - The Climate Fiction Prize

Bestselling author Abi Daré, joins Simon Savidge to discuss the current Climate Fiction Prize shortlist and the impact of climate fiction more broadly, ahead of the winner announcement.

In its first year, The Climate Fiction Prize cemented its position as a major literary award. Now in its second year, the prize continues to track climate fiction’s emergence as one of the most vibrant and necessary spaces in contemporary storytelling.

Abi Daré is an international bestselling author, winner of the Inaugural Prize 2025 and speaker who won The Bath Novel Award for The Girl With The Louding Voice. Her second novel, And So I Roar, won the Climate Fiction Prize.

Simon Savidge is a bibliophile, broadcaster and presenter whose YouTube channel Savidge Reads has over 2.5 million views.