Europeana Creative Climate Action Award 2026

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Submit your 500 word story or poem in response to our gallery of climate action imagery. Prizes and publication for the winners!

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Beth Daley (opens in new window) (Europeana Foundation)
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The first Europeana Creative Climate Action Award invites you to write a new short story or poem inspired by cultural heritage content on the theme of climate action.

We’re looking for up to 500 words of creative writing, fiction or poetry written in English and inspired by one or more of the images in our Europeana Creative Climate Action Award gallery, which has been curated by the Europeana Climate Action Community.

How do climate and creative writing go together?

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.

The Europeana Climate Action Community acknowledges that climate change is an emergency and believes that cooperative action is required to reverse this momentum. By inviting writers to create new works reflecting or inspired by cultural heritage material, we hope to produce a body of work that offers ideas, hopes for our futures and potential directions for us all to think further about.

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.

This competition is organised by the Europeana Climate Action Community of the Europeana Network Association - read about their work and get involved.

How to submit your entry

  1. Check out the Europeana gallery and choose one or more images that inspire you. Your writing doesn't have to reference the image specifically, but it should be evident that the theme, symbols or atmosphere of your story or poem is reflected somehow in the image you've chosen.
  2. Write your story or poem in English, with a maximum of 500 words.
  3. Check out the terms and conditions below.
  4. Complete the submission form by the closing date of 11 January 2026 at 23:59.

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