We’re excited to announce the eighth annual short fiction writing contest “Inventing Beautiful Futures”. The winner will receive $1000 for first prize. Second prize is $500 and third is $300. The contest opens on Earth Day each year, and this year it will run through June 15, 2022.
Write a story that uses technology to transform something harmful into something beneficial or even beautiful. From crisis through chaos to social good. Let the reader see this future world through your eyes. Show us how your characters develop and use technology to bring our world to a better place. But most of all, tell a good story, with characters we care about, setting, conflict, and resolution.
2021 WINNER, USA
2020 WINNER, AUSTRALIA
2019 WINNER, AUSTRALIA
Even within the harmful elements of nature and society there is an innate potential that can be harnessed into something beneficial or even beautiful. Technology can be the tool or catalyst for that transformation. Tell us a story about how you see this story unfold.
Your story should be consonant with the Sapiens Plurum mission: to inspire us — the first species that can intentionally impact its own evolution — to aspire beyond what was humanly possible.
Each year, Sapiens Plurum sponsors a short-fiction contest to encourage positive visions for the future. To increase contest accessibility, there is no entry fee. The prizes range from $1000 for first prize to $300 for third prize. Each year, we select a different sustainability theme. This year's theme is inventing beautiful futures.
We encourage you to read each inspiring, humorous and challenging short story from past contests. Winners of this contest have had their stories published in Slate and other media.
Sapiens Plurum (“wisdom of many”) was named to reflect humankind’s evolving connected intelligence. Our mission is to inspire us — the first species that can intentionally impact its own evolution — to aspire beyond what was humanly possible. The rising generation, the Sapiens Plurum generation, will have the power of gods...
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