I managed to send out the wonderful episode with Jamie Liu (Ep. 8 ) at 12:00 MIDNIGHT instead of 12:00 NOON (screwed by the AM/PM binary once again!). The episode was finished and ready to go except for the social link shares which I usually prepare the morning of the release. Which is a GREAT plan unless you post at midnight instead of noon.
heavy sigh
Determined to make lemonade out of lemons, this gives me a chance to encourage you to share the podcast with the social media links at the end of each episode (now updated in the original post on the substack and shown below). Sharing the pod and the stories is the best way to support the show! There’s no paid tier on Bright Green Futures (and there never will be). The entire raison d'être of Bright Green Futures is to grow the genre: by talking about it, building community among authors and readers, surfacing the stories, encouraging more to be written, and generally helping people discover these stories that shift the narrative about climate change from doom to hope and action. And more simply, helping us all work together to find our way out of this mess.
PLEASE SHARE Jamie’s Episode!
Want to write hopeful climate fiction?
My first published hopeful climate fiction short story was Seven Sisters, taking 3rd place in the 2022 Imagine 2200 contest. Jamie’s story, To Labor for the Hive, was her first published story ever! (Quite an impressive start.)
I keep saying we need more hopeful climate fiction... stories that will help us envision a better world... and the only way that will happen is IF WE WRITE THEM.
I highly encourage you to write your own hopeful climate fiction and submit it to Grist for their Imagine 2200 contest. Not only do you have a chance to win money and get your fiction some serious notice, you'll have gone through the exercise of envisioning a better world, and that's the first step toward making it happen!
Grist gives lots of guidance on what they’re looking for, including links to previous stories, and you’ve still got about a month until the deadline.
Be brave! We won’t change the world if we all stay inside our comfort zones.
PLEASE SHARE the contest too!
And don’t forget to check out Jamie’s episode!