Thanks to Steve Masover, author of Consequence, for taking time out right around the holidays to talk with us about his newest novel. Mary: For starters, I always like to look at the background of authors whom I interview. You are an author, activist, and information technologist–born in Chicago and […]
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“Peter Gould — playwright, novelist, Shakespearean scholar, director, all around literary provocateur — is one of the most fearless writers alive. With Marly, he has again taken on an urgent subject, no less than saving the earth, with brassy humor, verbal pyrotechnics, and dialogue so vivid, it’s as if a […]
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Part XI. Women Working in Nature and the Arts Liz Cunningham is the author of Ocean Country: One Woman’s Voyage from Peril to Hope in Her Quest to Save the Seas (North Atlantic Books) and Talking Politics: Choosing the President in the Television Age (Praeger). Her work has appeared in […]
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As I continue to explore the new genre solarpunk, I found an upcoming anthology titled Wings of Renewal: A Solarpunk Dragon Anthology, edited by Claudie Arseneault and Brenda J. Pierson. I recently got a chance to talk with Claudie about solarpunk, dragons, and the anthology. Wings of Renewal will be […]
Read MoreThanks to Manjana Milkoreit, from Arizona State University’s Imagination and Climate Futures Initiative, for the announcement of a short story writing contest. From the site: Speculative fiction stories have the power to take abstract policy debates and obscure jargon and turn them into gripping, visceral tales. The emerging subgenre of […]
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Globalism, micro and macro: Carolyn Welch’s California Poems and Felix Guattari’s The Three Ecologies Genesis and Resingularization by Tom Hibbard (Author of The Sacred River of Consciousness) “With the nomad, on the contrary, it is deterritorialization that constitutes the relation to the earth, to such a degree that the nomad […]
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Part X. Women Working in Nature and the Arts M Jackson joins our Women Working in Nature and the Arts series. She is an adventurer and environmental educator pursing a doctorate in geography and earth science at the University of Oregon, where she is researching glaciers and climate change in […]
Read More1. What am I working on now? The Two Worlds of Billy Callahan. 12 year-old Billy inadvertently connects to an ancient “Orb”, left on Earth millions of years ago by a previous civilization that colonized the planet. They ruin the environment, and flee Earth. Billy’s guide on his journey places […]
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Last year the term solarpunk came onto my radar. I read a piece at Arizona State University’s Imagination and Climate Futures Initiative’s Hieroglyph project called “Solarpunk: Notes toward a manifesto” by Adam Flynn. Having been a cyberpunk and steampunk reader, I thought, wow, solarpunk! This is a reflection and sign […]
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Author Sean Jackson’s Haw launches on June 19th. Haw is the gripping story of a father’s struggle to save his son from a corrupt society in a pitiless, bleak, futuristic America. Sean Jackson has published numerous short stories in literary journals, from the U.S. to Canada and Australia. Haw is […]
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Part IX. Women Working in Nature and the Arts I would like to welcome Charlene D’Avanzo, whom I first met last year in our climate change short story contest, which Charlene entered. Her story “Hot Clams” was selected for the upcoming anthology Winds of Change. Charlene noted in our discussion […]
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Part VIII. Women Working in Nature and the Arts Today we are talking with Kyla Bennet, an environmentalist and novelist, with a PhD in ecology and a law background. Thanks so much for agreeing to have this interview, Kyla. Kyla is the author of No Worse Sin, a YA title […]
Read MoreThis July the climate movement in Canada will come together to be bigger and bolder. On July 3 and July 4, we’ll take action across the country for real climate solutions and to show Stephen Harper that We > Tar Sands. Click here to join in the action. On July […]
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Part VII. Women Working in Nature and the Arts Mary: Hi Jessica. Thanks so much for letting me interview you. I have been looking at your website, “Words from the Wild“, and see that you are not just a writer and photographer but a biologist turned conservationist. I’m intrigued by […]
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Meet author Don Bredes, whose debut novel Hard Feelings was named Best Book of the Year for Young Adults by the American Library Association. Bredes is back with another YA novel, Polly and the One and Only World, a fantasy apocalyptic novel ushering in a vision of a future world […]
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