A new public artwork called Future Library will collect one new work from one author per year for the next century, sealed until their release in 2114. First up is Margaret Atwood, an apt choice, considering that her work— dystopias like The Handmaid’s Tale and the MaddAddam trilogy—tends to explore the future.

Atwood thus far refuses to reveal what she is writing. “Wild horses would not drag it out of me. It’s part of the contract [that] you can’t tell anyone what you’re writing. I’m finding it very delicious. But I will say that I’ve bought some special archival paper, which will not decay in its sealed box over 100 years.”

Future Library is a specially designed room inside a new library in Oslo, Norway that will open in 2018. One thousand newly planted trees surround the library, which will provide the wood the room will be lined with. The names of authors and their titles will also be on display in the room, but the manuscripts will not be available to read.

The Future Library trust, along with its creator, Scottish artist Katie Paterson—while she’s alive—will select a new writer to contribute every year. The trust will be responsible for maintaining the forest and ensuring the books’ publication. Of the project, Paterson said: “It freaks me out a bit when I think that many of these writers aren’t born yet. Sometimes it does hit me—oh my God, if I live to 90, what will it be like then? It’s very exciting as an artist.”

Atwood said to the Guardian that she didn’t take much time to consider whether or not she would participate. “It’s the kind of thing you immediately say yes or no to. I think it goes right back to that phase of our childhood when we used to bury little things in the backyard, hoping that someone would dig them up, long in the future.”