Choose a theme below and dive into a growing vision of possible futures inspired by intentions collected during the Edinburgh Book Festival 2024. Explore what other contributors have written in response to this theme, then contribute your own creative responses to keep building our futures, together.

You can write anything from a sentence to a longer piece of writing (up to 250 words). We invite you to continue the story in any way you like, but ask that you please be respectful of others. The posts will be moderated and offensive or inappropriate content will be removed.

We hope you feel inspired to join us in imagining possible futures together…