The Future Is Bright
The Future is Bright is a new project Create the Future is launching to celebrate the seasons and the hope each of them brings. We are running a competition to find high-quality creative work to feature in a 2025 Environmental Calendar. The current theme is SPRING.
SPRING SUBMISSIONS
What we are looking for:
We are seeking environmental and ecological artwork which imagines what Spring might look like in a future where climate action has led to a thriving world of biodiversity, sustainability, community, resilience, reform, and hope.
Which climate solutions do you think will shine in the Spring seasons of our future? What kind of food will be eaten and grown? What does your city/town/landscape look and feel like in this future spring? What kinds of flowers will be in bloom?
Show us the kind of future you’d love to live in and what Springtime means for that place. We celebrate climate visions rooted in hope and climate justice, showing the way to a greener, fairer world.
Submissions guidelines
We are particularly keen on visual artwork but are also open to poems (of up to 16 lines) or short flash-fiction/micro-fiction pieces (up to 250 words).
We’ll be looking for these core elements:
- Spring theme
- Creative climate solutions
- Hope in action
- Visions of the future
The deadline for SPRING submissions is May 31, 2024, by 11:59 p.m. BST (GMT+1).
We are excited to see what you create!
Further details:
- Entry is free!
- Submissions close May 31, 2024, by 11:59 p.m. BST (GMT+1).
- Competition is open to artists and writers anywhere in the world, except where participation may be prohibited or restricted by applicable law.
- Submissions must be your own original work or collaborative original work.
- Submissions must be relevant to the theme of Spring and positive visions of the future. Any unsolicited submissions that are not relevant to these themes will not be considered.
- If submitting writing, it must be written in English. We are not able to translate from other languages at this time.
- If the submission has been previously published, you must have the legal right to submit it to us for publication.
- Worldwide copyright and ownership of each piece remains with the creator.
For more specific questions, you can contact us at hello@createthefuture.earth.
How to submit
Please send your submissions to submissions@createthefuture.earth
Please prepare your entry using the following guidelines:
- Images should be submitted as a high-quality JPG file (.jpg)
- Writing should be submitted as a Word document (.docx preferred)
- Please title your submission as follows: title of your piece, name, Spring, TFIB.
For example: “Image Title, John Smith, Spring, TFIB”.