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Dyed in the Green (series): Wood Buffalo

Author: © George Mercer Publication Date: June 17, 2016 Type: Fiction Ordering: Amazon Social Media: Facebook, Twitter   Prologue   The willows lashed at his face as Charlie struggled through the snow, weighed down by the ice quickly encasing his tattered snow boots. Despite the freezing temperature, a steady stream […]

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Climate Change Author Spotlight – Kathleen Dean Moore

Back to the series April’s feature on authors who explore global warming in fiction covers Kathleen Dean Moore. Moore’s background in environmental activism and nature writing is abundant, though this article will also spotlight also her newest novel Piano Tide (Counterpoint, 2017), winner of the 2017 Willa Cather Award for […]

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Interview with Natasha Carthew

Part XVII. Women Working in Nature and the Arts, Natasha Carthew Thanks, Natasha, for taking the time to chat with Eco-fiction.com! Natasha joins us as the 17th feature in our “Women Working in Nature and the Arts” series. She has been published previously as a poet and young adult writer […]

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Melt

Author: © Lisa Walker Publication Date: May 2, 2018 Publisher: Lacuna Publishing Type: Fiction Ordering: Lacuna Publishing Social Media: Author website, blog, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter   Chapter Fourteen: The krill issue I am seated at a table with the scientists. Lucas is back in his favourite jeans and T-shirt and […]

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Vanishing Acts

Author: © Jaimee Wriston Colbert; cover image © Maile Colbert 2018 Publication Date: March 1, 2018 Publisher: Fomite Press Type: Fiction Ordering: Amazon Social Media: Author website 20 Gwen ANOTHER HOT, DRY JANUARY NIGHT and Gwen yanks down her blanket then the sheet, sweating, sleepless, thinking about the affair that […]

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Climate Change Author Spotlight – Jaimee Wriston Colbert

Back to the series Jaimee Wriston Colbert is the author of six books of fiction: Vanishing Acts, her new novel; Wild Things, linked stories, winner of the CNY 2017 Book Award in Fiction, finalist for the AmericanBookFest Best Books of 2017, and longlisted for the Chautauqua Prize; the novel Shark Girls, finalist for the USABookNews Best […]

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Interview with Caroline Woodward

Part XVI. Women Working in Nature and the Arts, Caroline Woodward Caroline Woodward is a writer of fiction, poetry and children’s books, living on the Lennard Island Lightstation at the entrance to Clayoquot Sound, near Tofino, BC. She is qualified as an Assistant Lightkeeper and often works relief at this […]

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Clovis

Author: © Jack Clinton Publication Date: January 12, 2018 Publisher: Harvard Square Editions Type: Fiction Ordering: Amazon, Barnes & Noble Social Media: Author website Back to the Dragonfly Library Excerpt from Prologue A BARTENDER at a crossroads tavern once passionately argued that this state is not a state at all. […]

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Interview with Marissa Slaven, Code Blue

I am so fortunate to talk in-depth with Marissa Slaven about her background and her debut novel Code Blue, which comes out on Earth Day this year and will be available for pre-order near the end of January. Marissa is a mother, daughter, sister, palliative care doctor, blogger, podcaster, and […]

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Life Plus 2 Meters, Volume 2

Author of Anthology: David Zetland, et al.; © John Sayer, Emma J. Myatt Publication Date: January 4, 2018 Type: Fiction Ordering: Click here for ordering via Amazon or a free PDF Social Media: Twitter Data Recovery Unit, John Sayer I have no tattoos. Life does not resemble a post-apocalypse, Hollywood […]

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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 from The Wire India and Rajesh Subramanian   Eco-literature includes the whole gamut of literary works, including fiction, poetry and criticism, which lay stress on […]

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Weatherfronts – For the Greater Good

Author: © David Thorpe Published: May 14, 2017 Publisher: Cambria Books Ordering: Amazon Type: Fiction – Anthology Social Media: Goodreads Weatherfronts Climate change and the stories we tell: A collection of poems and stories  by writers responding personally and creatively  to the scientific and emotional realities of climate change. Featuring […]

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Gentle

Author: © Cate Dunn Published: November 28, 2017 Ordering: Amazon, Type: Fiction – Novel Social Media: Author website, Facebook Back to the Dragonfly Library And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. –William Shakespeare As […]

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Stormteller

Author: © David Thorpe ISBN: 978-0-9928690-8-3 Publisher: First published in the United Kingdom by Cambria Books 2014 Type: Fiction – Novel Social Media: Author website   For Dion   Translation: ‘Mererid’s cry: it compels me away from my room tonight. Distant death is common after the sins of arrogance.’ – […]

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Climate Change Author Spotlight – Review and Writing Tips

Back to the series This December I review the past 15 months of author spotlights, which cover fiction writing in the Anthropocene. Based upon talking with many authors in the past four years, and spotlighting their works, I have come up with writing tips. This review also reflects the writing […]

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