OUR MISSION
Write the Good Future seeks to urge and empower writers to write works of hopeful
futuristic fiction. This fiction will have the potential to evoke imagination and
motivation to build a good future for our earth and humankind.
futuristic fiction. This fiction will have the potential to evoke imagination and
motivation to build a good future for our earth and humankind.
In our current context, because of increasing evidence of climate change on our earth, we need strong hearts, we need courage and determination to live as caretakers of our natural world. Fiction has the possibility of being a harbinger of hope for us, beckoning us to envision the possibility of changed ways of living.
OUR TEAM
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Maribeth Benner
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Maribeth Benner is the founder and director of the Write the Good Future project. As a young child growing up on a small dairy farm, her family's kitchen was a test-kitchen for recipes being considered for her aunt's cookbook. Her aunt, Doris Janzen Longacre, wrote and published in 1976 the bestselling book, The More-With-Less Cookbook. Doris envisioned that we can live creatively, joyfully, and simply - mindfully aware that our food and lifestyle choices bear a responsibility in stewarding the earth's resources. Rooted in the understanding that living simply can be meaningful and beautiful, Maribeth hopes for the possibility that we as a human race can learn to live sustainably together in the years to come.
Maribeth coordinates Living U, the lifelong learning institute of Living Branches, a continuing care retirement community. She has served in two congregations as a Mennonite pastor and in two schools as a mathematics teacher (Salford Mennonite Church, Plains Mennonite Church, Dock Mennonite Academy, and Lancaster Mennonite School - New Danville Campus). She is a graduate of Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary (Master of Divinity) and Goshen College (Bachelor of Arts, Mathematics, Secondary Education). She lives with her husband and two daughters in Pennsylvania. |
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Grant Funder
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For two years, 2017-2019, Salford Mennonite Church, in Harleysville, PA, generously provided funding for the writing contest. |
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Thinking Partners
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Children and adults, family and friends, Education and English professors, teachers, a writing project director, a poetry contest leader, pastors, attorneys, a business consultant, and a fifth grade class who tested several story prompts, have aided and shared their energy for this endeavor.
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Judges
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A panel of esteemed judges judged the work.
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