Read the entries from the 2026 Climate Change Writing Competition
A few weeks ago, we had the award ceremony of the very first Climate Change Writing Competition, hosted by FEL Scotland’s Forth Valley Climate Action Hub and run in partnership with Falkirk Writers’ Circle.
The competition, described in full on our previous blog post – ‘Climate Change Writing Competition 2026: The Power of Storytelling in the Climate Crisis’ – aimed to give people across the Forth Valley the chance to explore climate change through storytelling, imagination and lived experience.
The competition received ten brilliant entries, all of which examined climate change through a different lens and offered a unique take on how we can adapt to the challenges of the climate crisis.
Congratulations to our ten writers, and thank you for taking part in our very first climate change writing competition! All of the entries – including the winning entry ‘Surge’ by Tom Markie – can be read below:
- Rosie and Ella by J Pow
- Whatever Happened to Seasons by Stargazer
- A Beautiful Day in the Morning by Canny Shooter
- Past Present Future by Gran
- Obituary with a Twist – Death of the Frigid Zone by Cool Customer
- Surge by Tom Markie
- Our Changing World by Tiger Moth
- Polmont’s Thunderstorm and Flash Floods of 11 and 12 August 2020 by Kenny Alexander
- The impact of climate change of the lives of writers in Scotland by I Wright
- Hamish’s Hypothesis by Hamish