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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I was happy to talk with Premee Mohamed about her sequel to The Annual Migration of Clouds—We Speak Through the Mountain (ECW Press, 2024). Traveling alone through the climate-crisis-ravaged wilds of Alberta’s Rocky Mountains, 19-year-old Reid Graham battles the elements and her lifelong chronic illness to reach the utopia of […]
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Dragonfly has changed from Substack to Buttondown for our newsletter. Subscribe to our newsletter 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 August newsletter is out! Each month I post a recommended […]
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About the Book “Vividly imagined and deftly paced, The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands asks us to reconsider our place within the natural world amid a backdrop of capitalism and empire. Brooks has penned an elegant novel that is at once thrilling and transcendent. Also, there is a really […]
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Set in the world’s largest ocean, this awe-filled book explores that last wild place we have yet to colonize in a still-unfolding oceanic game, and interweaves beautiful writing, rich characterization, profound themes of technology and the environment, and a deep exploration of our shared humanity in a way only Richard […]
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Waiting for Al Gore (is a fish-out-water drama that blends the urgencies of environmental activism with the folly of self-help bombast, featuring an ensemble cast worthy of a Wes Anderson film. See more at Flexible Press. Waiting For Al Gore is an object lesson about the importance of trying, no […]
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An impressive, wonderfully detailed legal thriller showing the best and worst of humanity…Boldt is a retired administrative law judge and passionate about justice and the environment, and this shows on every page of this remarkable novel. It’s no surprise that the courtroom scenes are so well handled. Jason is a […]
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In the wake of the hurricane, Bird Isle residents fear the Aransas Wildlife Refuge will not be ready for the whooping cranes’ annual migration south. Seeing that Jack has important connections and a love for the island, they enlist him to help restore the habitat of the endangered cranes before […]
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The best-selling author of The River returns with a lush and vivid mystery set in Yellowstone National Park where a skirmish between a local hunter and a wolf biologist turns violent, and a park ranger, facing his own personal demons, sets out to determine what really happened. See more at […]
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Eco-novel Arroyo Circle masterfully illustrates the role of humanity and late-stage capitalism in the earth’s decay through a thrilling story set in Boulder, Colorado. With wildfires raging across the Front Range, floods decimating homes and lives along the creek, and the COVID-19 pandemic wreaking rampant catastrophe, author JoeAnn Hart illuminates the spiritual […]
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About the Book & Project Naniki (meaning ‘active spirit’ in the Taino language) is a cross-platform story project authored by Oonya Kempadoo, published as a Caribbean-futurist novel, Naniki (Rare Machines, Dundurn Press, Toronto, Jan 2024); it’s produced as an immersive and live-performance experience; with preliminary concept development for VR 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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Author: © Clara Hume Publisher: Moon Willow Press (1st edition), Dragonfly Publishing (2nd edition) Type: Short Story from the Winds of Change anthology Publication Date: October 16, 2015 Ordering: Amazon Back to the Dragonfly Library Anthology Sample of “The Midnight Moon” (entire short story featured!) The rowan berries came out […]
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Back to the Indie Corner series Note that all three books in the trilogy are published as of 2024. See the author’s site for more information. Welcome to the third post in our new Indie Corner series. Today we talk with Dr. Peter Brennan, whose first novel, Iceapelago, was inspired […]
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Rewilding our Stories provides an inclusive, diverse, and safe space to explore the broad subjects of ecologically oriented fiction and creative nonfiction, which cover important connections, dependencies, and interactions between people and their natural environments. The range of genres found in this field of literature—which can include environmental and nature […]
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