Austin Aslan’s The Islands at the End of the World is getting great reviews. In this fast-paced survival story set in Hawaii, electronics fail worldwide, the islands become completely isolated, and a strange starscape fills the sky. Leilani and her father embark on a nightmare odyssey from Oahu to their […]
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Women Working in Nature and the Arts Mary of Eco-fiction talks with Jennifer Harrington, a Toronto-based illustrator, graphic designer, and author of children’s eco-books. Her book Spirit Bear is a wonderful fictional trek into the Great Bear Rainforest and is published by Eco Books 4 Kids. See the site for […]
Read MoreThanks to Prof. Dr. Serpil Oppermann, EASLCE, European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture, and the Environment for the following news: November 15, 2014. Panel proposed for the ASLE Eleventh Biennial Conference, June 23-27, 2015, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID. “What Lies Beneath ‘Cli-Fi’ Narratives? Climate Science, Climate Justice, […]
Read More2014 is the 25th anniversary of the Bioneers Conference. According to their site: The years between now and 2020 will be the most important in the history of human civilization. Climate change has crash-landed from the future into the present. The ecological debt we’ve incurred is dire. The hyper-concentration of […]
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Imagination and Climate Futures Initiative at Arizona State University presents An Evening with Margaret Atwood, at the Herberger Theatre for the Arts, November 5, 2014. Internationally renowned novelist and environmental activist Margaret Atwood will visit Arizona State University this November to discuss the relationship between art and science and the […]
Read MoreReview by Nina Munteanu Margaret Atwood’s Booker Award nominee Oryx and Crake is a sharp-edged, dark contemplative essay on the premise of where the myopia of greed, power and obsession with “self-image” and its outstripping of ethics and morality may take us. Replete with sordid subject matter and unlikeable but […]
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Thanks again for doing an interview with Cli-Fi Books. We first talked last October about your book 500 Parts per Million. It was a great interview, and I was intrigued by your comparison of proactive youth in the 1960s compared to modern day–especially now when we face the biggest environmental […]
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On September 27 this year, we’ll be participating in Vancouver, British Columbia’s 100,000 Poets for Change. We kicked off this virtual event in June, with a short story contest about climate change, which is ongoing! (Please do read the rules, and they must be followed if you want to have […]
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I wholly enjoyed reading this adventure story, a thrilling journey and ride with wonderful character development and a highly contagious heroine, Aqual. It’s a magnificent novel–something that many first-time authors do not achieve. The Admiral is a post-apocalyptic novel about a community of people trying to survive a climate-changed world […]
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Morgan Nyberg is the author of a few titles, including two novels thus far in his Raincoast Saga. Intrigued by these books being set where I live, albeit far in the future, I asked Morgan for an interview and he politely agreed. For the record, I greatly enjoyed reading both […]
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The tradition of fiction about climate change goes way back–you could say all the way back to narratives of old that were spoken or written. The canon began before we knew more about our modern human-caused climate variations, even before sci-fi writers imagined such climate disasters. The Science Fiction Encyclopedia […]
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In The Practice of the Wild, Gary Snyder mentions Grandmother wisdom, the kind of sagacity that our grandmothers pass on to us. This etiquette-knowledge that we grow up with is often in confluence with other systems that tell us how to get ahead in the world—not how to maintain integrity. […]
Read MoreAshland Creek Press is pleased to announce the 2014 Siskiyou Prize for New Environmental Literature. The winner will receive a cash award of $1,000 and publication by Ashland Creek Press. The contest is open to unpublished, full-length prose manuscripts, including novels, memoirs, short story collections, and essay collections. Manuscripts should […]
Read MoreDeadline: September 2, 2014 Submit to: editorial@creativetime.org Creative Time Reports has a call to artists for submissions. From the site: Reflecting the diversity of approaches and subjects undertaken by Creative Time Reports contributors, such pieces might take the form of photo-essays, videos, op-eds or poems (to name just a few […]
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Punk Rockwell, by Michael Rothenberg. Review by Mary Woodbury. According to Punk Rockwell‘s narrator Jeffrey Dagovich, poetry takes more than a lifetime to write. Dagovich is a poet (he announces at the beginning of the book), not a novelist. So why is he writing a novel? Slowly, it’s revealed that […]
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