Take This With You: A Pocket Guide to Climate Hope is a community-led zine exploring climate hope and action in response to Not Too Late, edited by Rebecca Solnit and Thelma Young Lutunatabua. It will contain words and images by participants in People, Planet, Pages — a book club series organised by The Resilience Project.
The purpose of the zine is to equip readers with a creative toolkit which recognises the successes of the climate movement to date and explores how we can nurture the hope and resilience needed to continue into uncertain futures.
So, if you’ve taken part in a People, Planet, Pages book club, we want to see your submissions!
Deadline for submissions: Monday 5th January 2026
Formats welcome: Words / Photos / Illustration / Collage / Mixed Media / Comic / Etc.
What We’re Looking For
We invite submissions that:
- Respond to Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility in a creative way.
- Engage with ideas such as climate hope, resilience, and reimagining futures.
- Align with at least one of TRP’s values, and do not go against any (community, courage, joy, inclusivity and co-design).
All levels of artistic and writing are welcome.
Accepted formats include:
- Visual art (photography, illustration, collage)
- Short writing (micro-essays, poetry, prose, songwriting)
- Mixed-media or scanned work
- Comics
- Other experiments are welcome.
You are welcome to submit a piece in your preferred language. If doing so, please provide a version translated into English so we can share a link to this too.
Guidelines:
- You must be a People, Planet, Pages participant (there’s still time to get involved if you’re not already!)
- We particularly encourage submissions from creators who identify as part of marginalised or oppressed communities.
- Your submission must fit the zine format (A5)
- Quantity: You may submit 1 piece of work
- Word count:
- 50-250 words max (1-2 pages)
- Poetry: up to 35 lines.
- Images / art: 300 dpi preferred for print)
- File formats accepted: JPG, PNG, TIFF, DOCX, PDF
- Please label files clearly using this format: lastname_firstname_title, e.g. smith_joe_climatehope.png
- Use of AI. We are curious about how AI tools can help imagine hopeful futures. We encourage thoughtful use rather than fully automated submissions. If your submission includes AI-generated text, images, or design elements, please indicate this when submitting.
Successful contributors will receive:
- An honorarium of £50 for your work.
- Up to 5 free copies of the zine.
- An invite to the launch event in February 2025.
Contributors retain full rights to their work. By submitting, you give The Resilience Project permission to print and distribute your piece in both physical and digital versions of this zine, and also to share copies of your work online (with credit) through our social media and website, as well as in all presentations about the People, Planet, Pages programme. Thank you – we can’t wait to see your work!
All submissions will be considered in line with the following criteria:
- Relevance and Impact – We are looking for pieces which respond to ‘Not Too Late’ and support the zine’s central idea of building resilience in the climate crisis. Pieces should be engaging, informative, or emotionally resonant, providing a ‘pocket guide’ style contribution to climate activism.
- Tone – We are looking for pieces which balance the realities of the climate crisis whilst evoking feelings of hope and community.
- Originality and uniqueness – We encourage work that shows a personal or distinctive response to the book / overall theme.
- Diversity of perspectives and decolonising narratives – We want to capture a diversity of perspectives. Pieces that challenge dominant, colonial and/or exclusionary storytelling are particularly welcomed.
- Inclusivity and Accessibility – We want to ensure as many people as possible can access our zine. Please ensure text is readable and well-contrasted. Please use clear language. Please also consider how the piece will be interacted with digitally.
How to Submit
Please use the button below to submit your work.
If you have any questions or want to discuss an idea before you submit, please reach out to nelnicholson@icloud.com
Deadline for submissions: Monday 5th January 2026
We will notify you by the end of January 2026 regarding the success of your submission.
