Join Rewilding our Stories Discord 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 […]
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Click here to return to the world ecofiction series About the Books You can read more about the ECO24 and ECO25 anthologies at Violet Lichen, a new imprint of Apex Book Company. Run by Marissa van Uden, Violet Lichen publishes dark, literary, weird books and focuses on speculative ecofiction, weird […]
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The June newsletter is out. In this newsletter: a Scottish Highlands vacation, an interview with Marissa van Uden, and a spotlight on some alien life films. Due to a holiday and then more work than usual in keeping up our garden and meadow, the next newsletter will probably move to every […]
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It was great to recently virtually meet some local people involved in the editing, authoring and publishing of a novel called Flowers for Gaia (by JD Grant), published by OC Publishing. Author royalties will be donated to youth programming at Ecology Action Centre (where I also volunteer), a environmental charity […]
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Thanks so much to Nina Munteanu for this article introducing her just-released Gaia’s Revolution to our dear, gentle readers. Gaia’s Revolution: Life After Capitalism—Will We Survive? Gaia’s Revolution is Book 1 of The Icaria Trilogy, an environmental thriller released March 10, 2026 by Dragon Moon Press. This book wrote itself […]
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Click here to return to the world eco-fiction series About the Book Forests in fiction are often understood simply as settings, symbols, or remnants of a premodern past. Yet many African novelists have turned to the forest to experiment with worldbuilding and to imagine new futures. This groundbreaking book explores […]
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Back to the Indie Corner series Intro During the summer and autumn, we often visit Wolfville’s Farmers’ Market in the lush Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia. During one of those trips this past year, I was amazed to meet the most interesting author, Anne Smith-Nochasak. We talked for a long […]
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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: It’s been a while since I’ve had an update for Turning the Tide. Kimberly Christensen has been a dear colleague who has […]
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Exciting news: I’m publicly announcing my newest writing project, a novella with the working title of The Day Sylva Calhoun Washed Away, under my pen name Clara Hume. I don’t expect this to be published until 2027, but thanks to writing sprints and encouragement from the Rewilding Our Stories Discord, […]
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Click here to return to the world eco-fiction series I’m so excited to share with our readers some of the book projects the Rewilding our Stories Discord is doing. The Discord community began just over five years ago. Looking back, I wonder if it was Covid that prompted the idea […]
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Back to the Indie Corner series It was cool to hear from author Michelle (M.E.) Schuman, whose The Rare Earth series’ part 2, The Catalyst, just came out this fall. Michelle is the award-winning author of The Understory: A Female Environmentalist in the Land of the Midnight Sun and the […]
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Click here to return to the world eco-fiction series About the Book Rebooted for November 2025 At once grounded in history and fantastically imaginative, Arif Anwar’s The Storm (Washington Square Press, 2021) “moves us deftly through time and across borders, beautifully illustrating the strange intersections we call fate, […]
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Back to the Indie Corner series Micah Thorp is a physician and writer in Portland, Oregon. His first novel, Uncle Joe’s Muse, won a 2022 Next Generation Indie Book Award and a Foreword Indies Book of the Year Award. A sequel, Uncle Joe’s Senpai, was published in 2023. His writing […]
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Click here to return to the world eco-fiction series I’m thrilled to talk with P. Finian Reilly about his new novel Ice’s End. It’s only the second time the world eco-fiction series has traveled to Antarctica—the first being a conversation with Ilija Trojanow about his novel Lamentations of Zeno. About […]
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Jessica Mann’s novel Uplift (2024) is a work of realistic animal fiction, told entirely from the point of view of wild birds, animals, and an ancient tree. The book has won national awards and been featured in Psychology Today and The Nature Conservancy. When her high mountain wilderness is threatened […]
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