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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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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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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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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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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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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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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