Contest

Rachel May

Rachel May coordinates sustainability education at Syracuse University, running faculty development projects and workshops for students on a wide range of topics. Most recently, she has been teaching a zine-making class called Climatopia, in which students develop imaginary scenarios for real progress on climate change. This story grew out of […]

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Keomany Mary

My name is Keomony Mary, and I was born in 1995. I grew up as the youngest daughter among my other two sisters. I was born and raised in the capital city of Cambodia, Phnom Penh. Talking about writing, I do really love to write. I’d like to write fantasy, […]

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Keomony Mary – Raindrop

Watch for many of these stories in the anthology Winds of Change: Short Stories about our Climate, coming this fall (2015).

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Christopher Rutenber

Christopher Rutenber is a freelance writer living in rural Michigan. When not writing, he spends his time birding and exploring the nearby trails. Twitter: twitter.com/CJRTimeTraveler  

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JL Morin

Novelist and rooftop farmer, JL Morin grew up in inner city Detroit and wrote her Japan novel, Sazzae as her thesis at Harvard. It was a Gold medalist in the eLit Book Award, and a Living Now Book Awards winner. She took to the road, traveling around the world, worked as a […]

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JL Morin – Nature’s Confession (Honorable Mention)

This short story is part of a book by the same now that will come out in January. Teaser That Porter left his family and flew off with another woman was later erased from the history books. Nothing went as planned. He hadn’t even kissed Any, yet. He began to […]

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Olajide Aaron

Olajide Aaron is a Nigerian student of law whose interest in art is replicated in his love for writing and doing music; he is presently working on finishing his short story collections. He’s a passionate person who loves outstanding creativity. www.facebook.com/olayinkuz

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JoeAnn Hart

JoeAnn Hart is the author of the eco-novel Float, a dark satire that combines conceptual art, marital woes, and the fishing industry with plastics in the ocean. Float was published in 2013 by Ashland Creek, an environmentally aware press out of Oregon. Hart lives in Gloucester, Massachusetts, America’s oldest seaport, […]

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Charlene D’Avanzo

I am a marine ecologist and I taught ecology and environmental science for 35 years at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA. I am also an award-winning environmental educator and editor of several journals. My piece about environmental mysteries appeared in Sisters in Crime’s First Draft in April 2014. I am […]

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