Welcome to the World Eco-fiction Series: Climate Change and Beyond. This spotlight series travels the planet exploring fictional stories close to natural landscapes and wildlife, often with environmental concerns. If you like this series, check out our article at Medium, “Around the World in 80 Books: A Guide to Ecological […]
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Update: Dragonfly Pub’s ebook store is open! You can read about, buy, and download our ebooks directly. This site has always been ad-free, free to read, and freely supports authors and their books via interviews and promotions. I do this because I enjoy the field of eco-literature and want to […]
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Katy Wimhurst has had three collections of short stories published—An Orchid in My Belly Button (Elsewhen Press, 2025), Snapshots of the Apocalypse (Fly on the Wall Press, 2022), and Let Them Float (Alien Buddha Press, 2023). Her first book of visual eco poems was Fifty-One Trillion Bits (Trickhouse Press, 2023). She sometimes interviews writers for 3AM Magazine. More […]
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Dragonfly has changed from Substack to Buttondown for our newsletter. Subscribe to read more news, and see our news archives here. Note that this newsletter is free. Donations are accepted, but nothing is behind a paywall. The March newsletter is out! You’ll find extra news, such as book of the […]
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New: Join our 2025 book club! See details below about how to join the Discord and then check out the 2025 book club channel and our Storygraph challenge. Rewilding our Stories provides an inclusive, diverse, and safe space to explore the broad subjects of ecologically oriented fiction and creative nonfiction, […]
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Click here to return to the world eco-fiction series Earth Day 2025 I’m happy to reunite with a colleague from Vancouver days, Isaac Yuen, to celebrate Earth Day 2025. I first met Isaac nearly a decade ago when we participated in an Earth Day climate change and storytelling panel at […]
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Thanks to so many wonderful game suggestions (primarily video games, but not all) from the Rewilding Our Stories community, we have a new eco-gaming section here at Dragonfly. While some games lean toward environmental lessons and strategize ways to reconstruct ecological systems, others beautifully immerse the player into an explorative […]
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The Bright Green Futures: 2024 anthology, edited by Susan Kaye Quinn, is a collection of short solarpunk stories from guests of the Bright Green Futures podcast, where we lift up stories to build a better world. These hopeful climate-fiction stories include clicky space centipedes, sentient trees, a flooded future Rio […]
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Lynn Hutchinson Lee’s novella leads us through a decadently aromatic world: notes of orchids, chanterelle mushrooms and plush moss; sterilized and burned bedsheets abound. Just out of frame, girls long-dead slip past us, organza-like. A dizzying and beautiful debut, Origins of Desire in Orchid Fens explores life as a Romany […]
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Click here to return to the world eco-fiction series Recently I had the opportunity to talk with Aneesa Jamal, founder of Cogitation Club in India. Aneesa is also a NAAEE CEE Change Fellow 2023; Global Fellow, Center for Climate Literacy, University of Minnesota; and PhD Researcher, Curriculum & Instruction, Universiti […]
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Turning the Tide: The Youngest Generation Spotlight Series Children’s bookshelf | YA/teen bookshelf | Book reviews | Spotlights | Resources and teacher links | Games | Films News: In March 2025, we highlight Aneesa Jamal and her work with Cogitation Club in India, which teaches kids about climate change and, […]
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In English for the first time—translated by Sue Burke and published by Apex Book Company—ChloroPhilia is an Ignotus Award-nominated novella by Cristina Jurado. It’s a strange coming-of-age story addressing life after an environmental disaster, collective madness, and sacrifices made for the greater good.
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Thanks to the author for reaching out to Dragonfly. About 10:59: A deadly virus. An over-populated world. An impossible decision. The clock is ticking to the end of the world; and we’re already at 10:59. An apocalyptic thriller with a difference, 10:59 by NR Baker will have you questioning everything—and […]
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Eco-fiction isn’t limited to just the written word. It can include films and even games. Check back often, as I will update this post when new movies come out. This is just a sample listing, so if you think something should be included, please contact me. Most of these films […]
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It’s 2039 and temperatures are soaring, seas are rising, and the political climate is equally as menacing. Chance is living a life of crime just to get by, when her community is singled out for a government rejuvenation scheme, promising to bring her coastal town back to life. But when […]
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In this Hugo Award winning graphic-novel adaptation of Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower by Damian Duffy and John Jennings, the author portrays a searing vision of America’s future. The acclaimed graphic novel adaptation of Octavia E. Butler’s groundbreaking dystopian novel, Parable of the Sower, is a don’t-miss classic that […]
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