Click here to return to the series I still feel Ireland every day, though it’s been two years since I visited the country. Yet, I cannot quite get over it. I still see tiny orchids and Burnet’s roses and mountain avens poking through rocks in the Burren and vast swamp […]
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Author: © Ron Melchiore Publication Date: February 2016 Publisher: Moon Willow Press Press: Life Off Grid, produced by Phillip Vannini and Jonathan Taggart Social Media: Facebook Wandering for 165 Days and Nights – Chapter 4 Sample Appalachian Thru-Hike in the Winter If our feet could talk, they would have said, “There […]
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Novel by Ohio University emeritus prof asks hard questions. Plot set in familiar-seeming college town. © Jim Phillips, Athens News, Athens, Ohio, USA (June 6, 2018), p. 15 Ted Bernard’s novel Late-K Lunacy opens in a small college town in the foothills of Appalachian Ohio, on the banks of the […]
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Click here to return to the series Welcome to part 2 of Dragonfly’s new global eco-fiction series, where I explore fiction from around the world dealing with environmental crises. In this feature, I cover the novel Wide as the Wind, by author Edward Stanton, who landed on the idea for […]
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I had the pleasure of talking with Patricia J. Anderson, author of Threshold, recently published by Common Deer Press. This month’s interview comes from the perspective and lives of other species, providing a fresh outlook in the field of eco-fiction. Thanks to Patricia and Common Deer Press for the opportunity […]
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Author: © Peagum Coleman Publication Date: March 2018 Type: Fiction Ordering: Amazon Back to the Dragonfly Library Chapter 8 Victoria Snow’s Flat, Bristol Wednesday 22nd August 5.00 p.m. The Old Man awoke, instantly aware that something was about to happen. He sniffed the air and recognised a familiar scent. He […]
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Author: © Bev Prescott Publication Date: September 11, 2018 Publisher: Bywater Books Type: Fiction Ordering: Bywater Books, Amazon Social Media: Facebook, Twitter, Website Chapter 7, Scene 1 THE SOLDIER TORE EVE FROM SHARON’S GRASP. “No!” Sharon strained to hear the words her wife mouthed, I love you. Her own […]
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Click here to return to the series One of the things eco-fiction is concerned about is the environmental destruction of the planet. Global eco-fiction lifts the gaze above the norm and into a worldly perspective in which authors and artists understand that ecological collapse is both a global concern and […]
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Back to the series Several months ago I became enamored by a multi-media project–Protectors of the Wood. John KixMiller, the author of the series, works with a team of artists and musicians who beautifully capture the novels with artistic illustrations and supplement the novels with a podcast for each episode. […]
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Author: © Marissa Slaven Publication Date: April 22, 2018 Publisher: Moon Willow Press Type: Fiction Ordering: Amazon Social Media: Facebook, Twitter, Website, Podcast Excerpt — July Three splintering blasts, followed by a short pause, repeated twice more. My ears are still ringing and, shading my eyes with my hand, […]
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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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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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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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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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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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