Imagine 2200: Climate fiction for future ancestors

Fix, Grist’s solutions lab, invites you to join a conversation about decolonizing and diversifying climate storytelling, as explored in its inaugural climate-fiction contest, Imagine 2200. Authors and Imagine 2200 judges Adrienne Maree Brown, Morgan Jerkins, Kiese Laymon, and Sheree Renée Thomas will join Fix’s Tory Stephens and Columbia University's Brian Kahn to discuss how to build deeply intersectional worlds, systems, and solutions, and create visions for a planet grounded in justice and abundance. This event is presented in partnership with Columbia Climate School's MA in Climate and Society, Orion Magazine and with support from NRDC.

Speakers:

Sheree Renée Thomas is a fiction writer, poet, and editor in Memphis. Her works include Nine Bar Blues, Sleeping Under the Tree of Life, and Shotgun Lullabies. Thomas was recently named editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.

Adrienne Maree Brown is a scholar and activist in Detroit. She is the author of Emergent Strategy and Pleasure Activism, and co-edited the anthology Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements.

Morgan Jerkins is an author and editor in New York City. She wrote This Will Be My Undoing and Wandering in Strange Lands. Her debut novel, Caul Baby, was released in April.

Kiese Laymon is a professor of English and creative writing at the University of Mississippi. He is the author of Heavy and How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America. His debut novel, Long Division, will be reissued later this year.

Brian Kahn is an award-winning editor and writer who currently runs Earther and lectures for Columbia's MA in Climate and Society, the inaugural program of The Climate School. He has covered the climate crisis for the better part of a decade, and his work has appeared in numerous outlets, including the Guardian, Wall Street Journal, and Grist. In previous lives, he led sleigh rides through a herd of 7,000 elk and gave boat tours on the deepest lake in the U.S.