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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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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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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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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Author: © Tanja Rohini Bisgaard Anthology Authors: Click here Ordering: 2047: Our Common Futures Publication Date: November 29, 2017 Type: Fiction – Anthology Social Media: Author website Introduction As a teenager in the 1980s, growing up in Norway’s second-largest city, Bergen, I often sat reading the newspaper before heading off […]
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Lidia Yuknavitch is the author of National Bestselling novels The Book of Joan and The Small Backs of Children, winner of the 2016 Oregon Book Award’s Ken Kesey Award for Fiction as well as the Reader’s Choice Award; the novel Dora: A Headcase, and a critical book on war and narrative, Allegories Of […]
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Author: © Patrik Sampler Publisher: Ninebark Press Ordering: PatrikSampler.com Publication Date: June 16, 2017 Type: Fiction – Novel Social Media: Author website An Excerpt from The Ocean Container What can I see? Thin mist blowing through the branches of wind-carved Sitka spruce, cracked, grey bark and thin lower branches […]
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Back to the series October’s spotlight (marking the series’ one-year anniversary) is on Susan M. Gaines, who wrote Carbon Dreams, her first published novel–and she has just completed another. Her short stories and essays have appeared in numerous literary journals, such as the North American Review and the Missouri Review, […]
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I had the pleasure of meeting Isaac Yuen at a Climate Change and Storytelling panel in West Vancouver, which I sat in this year on Earth Day this year–along with author Claudia Casper and climate solutions educator Deborah Harford. Isaac runs Ekostories, a fascinating site that has a vast amount […]
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Author: © J. G. Follansbee Ordering: Amazon Publication Date: October 20, 2017 Type: Fiction – Novel Social Media: Author website, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Amazon, Goodreads Back to the Dragonfly Library Chapter 2 Deputy Inspector Janine Kilel tracked the surveillance drone out of the corner of her eye as it hovered […]
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Author: Melissa Fraterrigo Publisher: University of Nebraska Press Publication Date: September 1, 2017 Type: Fiction – Novel-in-Stories Social Media: Author website Reproduced from Glory Days by Melissa Fraterrigo by permission of the University of Nebraska Press. Copyright 2017 by the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska. Back to the Dragonfly […]
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Guest interview: Sheryl Johnston (from All Things Literary) chats with Melissa Fraterrigo, author of the new novel Glory Days. Glory Days by Melissa Fraterrigo Pub Date: September 1, 2017. UK November 1, 2017 Imprint: Nebraska. 175 pages; 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches ISBN-13: 978-1-4962-0132-4; Price $19.95 Melissa Fraterrigo is […]
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Authors: © Annis Pratt Publisher: Iuniverse Publication Date: May 6, 2012 Type: Fiction – Series (Infinite Games) Social Media: Author website, LinkedIn, Amazon author page, Facebook, Twitter Note: Read other excerpts from this series. Excerpt: Chapter 8: The Crossroad The beggars were out in force, waving their stumps imploringly. Ordinarily, […]
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I want to thank Cat Sparks, author of Lotus Blue and contributor to the upcoming Ecopunk! – Speculative Tales of Radical Futures anthology (Ticonderoga Publishing, 2017) for taking time out of her very busy schedule to talk to Eco-fiction about this collection of short stories that she edited with Liz […]
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Back to the series From Barbara Kingsolver’s official site: “Barbara Kingsolver was born in 1955, and grew up in rural Kentucky. She earned degrees in biology from DePauw University and the University of Arizona, and has worked as a freelance writer and author since 1985. At various times in her […]
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