Articles by: Mary Woodbury

Wilder Girls, Rory Power

From Hypable: Wilder Girls by Rory Power follows Hetty as she looks for her friend, braving a world outside of quarantine and discovering the truth about their story. The Wilder Girls cover, created by Regina Flath and Aykut Aydogdu, is as twisted as it is beautiful, depicting a girl literally […]

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The Book of Dog, Lark Benobi

Brit+Co named The Book of Dog one of 2018’s best feminist books. t’s the night of the Yellow Puff-Ball Mushroom Cloud and a mysterious yellow fog is making its way across the world, sowing chaos in its path. Mt. Fuji has erupted. The Euphrates has run dry. In America the […]

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Hawk, Jennifer Dance

See our global eco-fiction spotlight on Jennifer Dance’s White Feather collection at Dragonfly.eco. Hawk, a First Nations teen from northern Alberta, is a cross-country runner who aims to win gold in an upcoming competition between all the schools in Fort McMurray. But when Hawk discovers he has leukemia, his identity […]

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Shrinking Sinking Land

Author: © Kell CowleyPublication Date: December 14, 2018Ordering: AmazonSocial Media: Twitter, Instagram, Goodreads, Publisher (Odd Voice Out) Back to the Dragonfly Library This extract also appears in the 2016 climate change anthology Everything Change as it was selected as a prize winning finalist by sci-fi author Kim Stanley Robinson who […]

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Climate Change Author Spotlight – Edan Lepucki

Back to the series I was thrilled to chat with Edan about her work in the field of climate change and storytelling. She is the author of the novella If You’re Not Yet Like Me and the novels California and Woman No. 17.  California debuted at #3 on the New […]

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Undergrowth, Nancy Burke

In this luminous novel, the all-too-human experiences of fear, love and loss become amplified with potentially disastrous consequences. In 1960s Brazil, an indigenous group is on the brink of a tragedy, the dimensions of which they are only beginning to grasp. A small band of disaffected government agents, academics and […]

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Lamentations of Zeno, Ilija Trojanow

Click here to return to the series Today we explore the Antarctic via the novel Lamentations of Zeno (Verso Books, 2016) by Ilija Trojanow. I had not reached out to Ilija before, though I read his book a couple years ago and featured it at the Free Word Centre as […]

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Stormbird Press

Stormbird Press books—As if nature were not beautiful enough! When Nelson Mandela famously said ‘education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world’, he was inspiring a generation of readers to think, read and act. For centuries we have gained knowledge of the natural world through […]

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Compass Rose, Anna Burke

This swashbuckling 26th century adventure novel is smart, colorful and quirky, yet it manages to deliver a healthy dose of heart, humor, and humility on every single page. -Goodreads Compass Rose is a dystopian high-seas adventure that examines climate refugees, changing ocean ecosystems, and ways humanity might adapt to rising, […]

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Climate Change Author Spotlight – Marissa Slaven

Back to the series I talked with Marissa earlier this year after publishing her young adult novel Code Blue (Moon Willow Press, 2018) and thought this novel would be an excellent addition to our focus on spotlighting authors who write global warming fiction for teen and young adult fiction audiences. […]

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FKA USA, Reed King

WB buys rights to new dystopia series, FKA USA, that imagines a fallen United States after climate change and “the final president.” –Den of Geek Reed King’s amazingly audacious novel is something of a cross between L. Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz, Douglas Adams’s A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the […]

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Moon of the Crusted Snow, Waubgeshig Rice

With winter looming, a small northern Anishinaabe community goes dark. Cut off, people become passive and confused. Panic builds as the food supply dwindles. While the band council and a pocket of community members struggle to maintain order, an unexpected visitor arrives, escaping the crumbling society to the south. Soon […]

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The Butterfly Effect, Rajat Chaudhuri

Click here to return to the series For this part of the global eco-fiction series, I was thrilled to talk with Rajat Chaudhuri, author of The Butterfly Effect (September 3, 2018, Olive Turtle, Niyogi), which Scroll.in describes as a novel that “blends mystery, eco-fiction and a Russian doll narrative.” Truly […]

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Only the Ocean, Natasha Carthew

Central to Natasha’s work as a writer and performer is talk about re-wilding the novel, getting lost in nature and writing outdoors for inspiration and freedom. Breath-takingly fierce, smart and tender, Only the Ocean is a story of survival and courage in the midst of darkness that will thrill fans […]

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Sealed, Naomi Booth

Heavily pregnant Alice and her partner Pete are done with the city. Above all, Alice is haunted by the rumours of the skin sealing epidemic starting to infect the urban population. Surely their new remote mountain house will offer safety, a place to forget the nightmares and start their little […]

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