August 9 – Our 8th Anniversary & Survey Results!
Though this site was in the makings in July of 2013, the first post was August 9th that year. Even that earlier material was a … Read more
Category Archives: Articles
Backyard Wildlife – There’s Something in the Water
Back to Series I’m finally here, near Halifax, land of many forests and lakes. Flying into the airport I felt both worried about my multi-city … Read more
A Word About Covid-19
As many of you may know, my husband and I began the process of planning a move from Vancouver to Halifax. This started before the … Read more
A Daily Post on Winter Literature & Arts
Join us over at Facebook for a post-a-day as we count down to January 1, with articles exploring wintry nature in storytelling. Featured image: By … Read more
Top Ten Ecologically Oriented Novels & Films of the Decade
Welcome to the first day of December in a changing world. No blue hinges the sky. It’s all gray and cold and still as I … Read more
Fun Experiment: AI Writing Our Stories
I read an interesting article at LitHub yesterday that used an on online AI-bot to write more of some of the world’s classic novels based … Read more
Eco-Weird & Horror Themes in Literature and the Arts
Join us over at Facebook for a link a day–October 23 to November 2, the Day of the Dead. These stories show how eco-horror and … Read more
The Beautiful and Dangerous Ecology in A Song of Ice and Fire
This article contains a few spoilers. To follow along, it’s helpful for the reader to be familiar with author George RR Martin’s series and the … Read more
YA and Teen Fiction Exploring Climate Change
Updated: Click here for Dragonfly’s YA/teen bookshelf. Followers of this site will be familiar with my spotlight on authors who explore global warming in fiction. … Read more
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 … Read more
Wild Speculations and Ruptured Paradigms
Written and © by Annis Pratt and previously published at her blog, The Worlds We Long For Last summer I wrote an essay about whether climate warming … Read more
The Middle Earth Universe, J.R.R. Tolkien
This is the 600th book post made in the years I’ve run Dragonfly, and I wanted to make it special on this fifth anniversary. Perhaps … Read more
Could Eco-Literature Be the Next Major Literary Wave?
Eco-literature needs to move beyond the sterile badgering of activism and delve deeper into human stories of subtlety. Written by Rajesh Subramanian Reprinted with permissions … Read more
Special Holiday Announcement
This site, along with Moon Willow Press, Eco-fiction’s Running in the Anthropocene Blog, and Eco-fiction’s Green Reads, will be on hold, for the most part, … Read more
Climate Change Novels Set in British Columbia
I have blogged before about Clara Hume’s book Back to the Garden, which Moon Willow Press published in late 2013. Clara Hume, an author local to … Read more