The Hopper is a lively environmental literary magazine from Green Writers Press. The poetry, fiction, nonfiction, visual art, ecocriticism, and interviews that they publish are all paths towards an invigorated understanding of nature’s place in human life and are part of a new phase in nature writing and art that […]
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Authors: © Kate Brandes Publisher: Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing Publication Date: April 22, 2017 (Earth Day) Type: Fiction Social Media: Author website, Facebook, Twitter Back to the Dragonfly Library Excerpts A brand new black pickup was parked between LeeAnn’s red Chevy and Jack’s old beater. A man stood beside it, with his […]
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Back to the series Kim Stanley Robinson is an award-winning author of literary and science fiction; he is widely known for his realism in fiction since he bases his stories on modern scientific theories. He is known for carefully researching climate and other sciences while planning his stories. His academic […]
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Authors: © Donna Mulvenna, Jessica Groenendijk, and Margi Prideaux Publisher: Stormbird Press Publication Date: February 2017 Type: Nonfiction Ordering: Free e-book available from Donna Mulvenna, Jessica Groenendijk, and Margi Prideaux Where Journeys Begin (Introduction) Some believe the natural world is our real home. The place where we came from. Could […]
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Title: Our National Parks Author: John Muir Publication: In the public domain. Originally: “In this book, made up of sketches first published in the Atlantic Monthly, I have done the best I could to show forth the beauty, grandeur, and all-embracing usefulness of our wild mountain forest reservations and parks, […]
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Author: © Ned Tillman Publication Date: 2014 Type: Nonfiction Ordering: Amazon Social Media: Amazon Author Page, Author Website, Facebook, LinkedIn Prologue to Saving the Places we Love First Loss The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing. — Edward Abbey Good Endeavor Farm, 1962 — I woke […]
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Author: © Don Ogden Publisher/Ordering: Levellers Press Publication Date: October 5, 2016 Type: Poetry and Prose Social Media: Blog – Website Bad Atmosphere this is not what it was supposed to be how many fields ago, clear blue and clouds billowing and soft breeze, dancing leaves us wondering if […]
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Author: © Donelle Dreese Publisher: Moon Willow Press Publication Date: April 22, 2017 Type: Novel Ordering: Contact for free review copy Social Media: Website – Twitter Back to the Dragonfly Library If people knew the truth about me, they would say a dark force found me and taught me how […]
Read MoreEco-fiction.com’s curator Mary Woodbury will be on a panel on Earth Day, at Vancouver Public Library, that will talk about storytelling and narratives on climate change found in science and literary arts. Also in attendance will be Claudia Casper, Ehlam Zaminpaima, and Deborah Harford. Details to come later. Also that […]
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Part IV. Authors Who Tackle Climate Change in Fiction – Emmi Itäranta Back to the series Finnish author Emmi Itäranta’s debut novel, Memory of Water, haunted me to no end. It was my favorite book in 2014, the year it was translated into English, and I later interviewed Emmi (see […]
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Author: © Kym Brunner Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for Young Readers Publication Date: November 2016 Type: Novel Ordering: Amazon Social Media: Website – Twitter – Facebook – Subscribe to Newsletter Back to the Dragonfly Library Chapter One Today was the day I’d been dreaming about practically my whole life. Too […]
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Author: © P. Gordon Judge Publication Date: July 24, 2016 Type: Trilogy Ordering: Amazon Social Media: Facebook, Amazon Author Page Back to the Dragonfly Library “Boring is good” Leon and I were nervously awaiting a video-link with the Lowell group. He was fiddling with some of his favorite nerd-ish gaming […]
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Thanks to Midge Raymond and John Yunker, owners of Ashland Creek Press, for the Q&A. Midge has more than twenty years of experience in writing, editing, and publishing. In addition to being a published fiction writer and journalist, she has worked as an editor and copywriter with several New York […]
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This site, along with Moon Willow Press, Eco-fiction’s Running in the Anthropocene Blog, and Eco-fiction’s Green Reads, will be on hold, for the most part, until late December. Our host is merging with another, so we’ll have new DNSs, and any changes made between now and then will be lost. […]
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Author: Herman Melville (public domain copyright) Publication Date: October 18, 1851 Excerpt from Chapter 70, The Sphynx It should not have been omitted that previous to completely stripping the body of the leviathan, he was beheaded. Now, the beheading of the Sperm Whale is a scientific anatomical feat, upon which […]
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