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Stories shape how we see the world. Research we conducted with BAFTA found that fictional characters can influence real-world consumption habits. So, what your characters think, what they eat, buy and how they get around can all help shape readers’ assumptions about what is normal or desirable. Writers you have more power than you think. Read More

We had over 300 entries to our Flash Fiction competition on the theme of epiphanies. Stories covered topics like food, waste, nature, transport etc., and all in different ways captured that moment of transformation when the penny drops for a character and they suddenly see the world in a different way. We were so pleased Read More

Our new competition is flash fiction on the theme of epiphanies – that moment where a character’s attitudes/behaviours change for the greener. Deadline is 27th August 2025. Details here. Huge thanks to those who took part in our Kickstarter campaign who helped to fund the prizes. We hope to follow this up with a short Read More

Denise Baden will be running a free event next Wednesday 28th May 11am 12.45 pm in Southampton. It is part of the Urban Wild Festival at The Spark, Solent University, Southampton. 11.15- 11.45 Denise will share her research on how readers respond to green themes in fiction and her work with Bafta in a talk: ‘Stories Read More

We are crowdfunding for one more week to support a new publication with additional funds going towards a Green Stories competition in late 2025. Those who pledge can have a say in what format of competition we will run: short story, novel, children’s, young adult etc. For more details see here.

We are crowdfunding in February 2025 to support a new publication with additional funds going towards a Green Stories competition in late 2025. Those who pledge can have a say in what format of competition we will run: short story, novel, children’s, young adult etc. For more details see here.

Habitat Press are offering four eBooks at a third off until the end of December: see here. This includes Defying Futility a brand new publication, available early as a preprint that follows on from Fairhaven, a previous Green Stories winner.

There is an additional performance of the play ‘Murder in the Citizens’ Jury’ on Sunday 22nd at 4pm with Q&A. It’s cut price as it’s being filmed and there’s an after party to celebrate the end of the run. The audience can also get a £10 Amazon voucher and free eBook for giving feedback, so Read More

The Southampton amateur dramatic theatre group Maskers, are putting on the full cast of 9 whodunnit version of Murder in the Citizen’s Jury at their studio in Shirley, Southampton from 17th – 22nd September. Tickets are going fast so book here. This was loosely inspired by Southampton’s Climate Assembly. A TV adaptation won the Writing Read More

This is a one-man play performed by multi-award-winning actor, Jack Klaff (Star Wars and others). It explores the ethical dilemma of the Director of Public Prosecutions who must decide whether to prosecute the murder, when to do so has implications for humanity and his own family. Drawing upon the tradition of ‘theatre-in -education’, the objective Read More