Creating new climate stories: Posthuman collaborative hope and optimism

This paper considers an evolving project about climate change that will explore using collaborative creative writing strategies to emotionally support and engage writers, primarily focusing on how narratives of hope optimism might counter affective responses anxiety, the resultant solipsistic inertia or surrender. We ask: what role could fiction play in helping create positive futures strengthen us manage may come already is? outline inspiration background our begin theorise justification for applying posthuman approaches question reimagining fiction. review a number projects located outside traditional but still drawing narrative storytelling, consider – which focuses genre fictions add horizon point; one is not delusional, also does lead dystopian despair.