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Interview with Gary Robson, Who Pooped in the Park? Series

Gary D. Robson is an American author from Red Lodge, Montana. He is best known for his children’s picture book series Who Pooped in the Park?, which teaches children about animal scat and tracks. The books have fictional characters who learn from each other as well as guides. The series […]

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Climate Change Author Spotlight – Margaret Atwood

Back to the series Popular author Margaret Atwood called climate change the “everything change.” Atwood’s novels are generally about the human experience, at times notably the female’s, but she also writes about this everything change.  Her genre-busting books range from literary to speculative. Global warming occurs prominently in Atwood’s MaddAddam […]

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Interview with Jaimee Wriston Colbert, Wild Things

Jaimee Wriston Colbert is the author of Wild Things, a new linked story collection from BkMk Press, 2016; Shark Girls, from Livingston Press in November, 2009; a linked stories collection, Dream Lives of Butterflies, which won the gold medal in the 2008 Independent Publisher Awards; a novel in stories, Climbing […]

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Wild Things, “The Man Who Jumped”

Author: Jaimee Wriston Colbert Publisher: BkMk Press (University of Missouri-Kansas City) Publication Date: October 15, 2016 Type: Short Story Collection Ordering: SPD Books in Berkeley, Amazon Social Media: Poets and Writers, Author Website Excerpt from the Wild Things collection, from the short story “The Man Who Jumped” (First published in […]

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Left Behind

Author: © Mehek Naresh Type: Short Story Social Media: Twitter, Author Blog Congratulations to Mehek Naresh for winning the Eco-fiction 2016 Solarpunk Short Story Contest! This short story is published whole. Judges were Claudie Arseneault, author of Viral Airwaves and editor of Wings of Renewal: A Solarpunk Dragon Anthology, and […]

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The Audit

Author: © Rachel May Publisher: Moon Willow Press Publication Date: October 16, 2015 Type: Short Story from the Winds of Change anthology Author Link: Syracuse University Download Link Bill turned the mower off at the top of his sloping lawn and surveyed his handiwork. Alternating segments of taller and shorter […]

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How Close to Savage the Soul

Author: © John Atcheson Publisher: Moon Willow Press Publication Date: October 16, 2015 Type: Short Story from the Winds of Change anthology Author Links: Common Dreams, Author Website, Twitter Download Link Back to the Dragonfly Library The aromas hit him like a fist, poised there over five decades, waiting until […]

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Interview with Samuel Marquis, Joe Higheagle Series

We’re happy to welcome Samuel Marquis to our interview series. He is a bestselling, award-winning suspense author. An expert witness in groundwater contaminant hydrology, Samuel works by day as a VP-Hydrogeologist with an environmental firm in Boulder, CO, and by night as a spinner of suspense yarns. His first two […]

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Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior, Review by Nina Munteanu

In a world that’s quickly heating up and drying up, you can’t go home again—even if you never leave—Clive Thompson Barbara Kingsolver’s 2012 novel Flight Behavior was, according to The Globe and Mail, the first novel that dealt “specifically, determinedly and overtly with climate change. [And] only Kingsolver could pull […]

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Jesus and Magdalene

Author: © João Cerqueira Publisher: Lion Publications Publication Date: July 6, 2016 Type: Novel Author Links: Amazon, Facebook, Website, Twitter Back to the Dragonfly Library For the love of nature When Magdalene and Jesus left the environmental camp, she revealed to him her ruminations. “Did you know that nature and […]

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The Silence Spreading across the Natural World

Author: © Donna Mulvenna Type: Prose Author Links: YouTube, Goodreads, Pinterest, Facebook “The earth has music for those who listen.” – George Santayana I see a lot of trees from my office window. Although, I don’t actually have a window. I don’t have walls either. Or a roof. I have […]

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The Little Big Town

Author: © Mary Woodbury Publisher: Moon Willow Press Type: Fiction (Children’s Novella) Publication Date: 1st published January 2010 Ordering: Amazon Social Media: Facebook Excerpt from Part IV. Holidays On Sunday, the whole family piled into the Blazer and drove to the outskirts of Tarkin where the Harvest Festival was being […]

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Eco-fiction at Word Vancouver

Thanks to everyone who attended! The readings went great, and we had some thoughtful Q&A from the audience afterward. Please see our Facebook for photos from the event. FREE EVENT – No tickets required! Community Garden “Eco-fiction, memoir, and a variety of non-fiction presentations” To celebrate 100,000 Poets (Authors and […]

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Ice Canyon Monster

Author: © Keith Rommel Publisher: Sunbury Press Type: Fiction Publication Date: July 26, 2016 Ordering: Amazon, Barnes & Noble Social Media: Author Website, Press Release, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, Instagram Excerpts 1 – SHAMAN Akutak knelt down on the hard, cold surface of a mountainous ice sheet that overlooked the […]

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The Green and the Red

Author: © Armand Chauvel Translator: Elisabeth Lyman Publisher: Ashland Creek Press Type: Fiction Publication Date: 2014 Ordering: Amazon Social Media: Goodreads, Facebook, Our Hen House Review Back to the Dragonfly Library Chapter 1 Léa scanned the menu desperately in search of an escape route. She’d come to Paris for the […]

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