本文介绍了“近未来世界艺术”项目，旨在鼓励关于未来几年世界的短篇小说创作。该项目提供奖金，奖励在今年1月至3月期间发表的关于近未来的最佳短篇小说，以及对推荐获奖作品的推荐人。参与方式包括提交闪小说片段、推荐短篇小说、注册参加选拔活动以及分享想法。作者认为，短篇小说能够快速响应快速变化的时代，且更易于创作和传播，有助于公众想象和思考可能的未来。项目旨在填补短篇小说创作支持不足的空白，并促进艺术与时俱进。

🎉 项目目标：启动“近未来世界艺术”项目，鼓励关于未来几年世界的短篇小说创作，推动公众对未来世界的想象和思考。

💰 奖项设置：为在今年1月至3月期间发表的关于近未来的最佳短篇小说提供500美元奖励；为推荐获奖作品的推荐人提供100美元奖励；为最佳闪小说片段（<1,000字）提供250美元奖励。

✍️ 参与方式：参与者可以通过artnearfuture.world提交闪小说片段（截止日期为4月21日），推荐短篇小说（截止日期为4月21日），注册参加4月24日在布鲁克林的选拔活动，以及关注并分享相关想法。

💡 项目意义：短篇小说能够快速响应时代变化，更容易创作和传播，有助于公众想象和思考可能的未来。该项目旨在填补短篇小说创作支持不足的空白，并促进艺术与时俱进。

📅 项目周期：项目采用季度推进的方式，紧跟快速变化的时代，鼓励艺术创作保持时效性，并借鉴了其他快速资助项目的经验，以促进社区建设。

Published on April 15, 2025 12:46 AM GMT

I’m launching a new project called “Art of the Near Future World” to celebrate and encourage short-form fiction about the world a few months to a few years from now. I thought the Less Wrong community might especially be interested in participating in it or improving my approach.

Prize information

$500 award for the best short story published anywhere from January to March and set in the near future, the world a few months to a few years from now

$100 award for the first referral of the winning story

$250 award for the best flash friction fragment (< 1,000 words)

 

How to participate

Go to artnearfuture.world to 

Submit your flash fiction fragment (by April 21)Recommend a short story (by April 21)Register for the selection event (April 24th in Brooklyn; in a church basement but not religiously affiliated)Follow along and share ideas

 

Motivation

The world can change very quickly and it may change especially quickly in the coming years.Art is an especially powerful way to help communities and the broader public imagine and think through possible futures.While of course there is a rich tradition of science fiction writing and movies, I think short form fiction writing is an ideal and undersupported form of art for imagining the near future world. Short form fiction writing can respond to a quickly changing present, a timeline on which movies or TV shows or novels can’t keep up.Short form fiction writing (and especially even briefer flash fiction) can be broadly made. It can catch an experience, an emotion, a feeling of the future, a quick look around the bend. Short form fiction writing can encourage broader participation, as for example in @Tenoke's post here and @Richard_Ngo’s writing here.Current gaps: In general, there is not much support or celebration of short-form fiction writing. And what short-form fiction exists is often fragmented across the web. And artistic awards proceed on an annual calendar (at best), so there is a further lag in the timeliness of their celebration.A prize celebration focused on short stories and flash fiction set in our our near future world, the world a few months to a few years from now, can help recognize and encourage art that plays with the possible threads of the near future. It could bring to broader life some of the concerns around AI, etc. of LW and related communities.And doing that quarterly can help encourage art staying up to date in its imagination. The quarterly pace follows the example of other fast-moving grant programs (like Fast Grants during COVID) and helps build further community.

Here’s a Substack post with further thinking and here’s a Twitter post.

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