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 The contest is open to unpublished, full-length prose manuscripts, including novels, memoirs, short story collections, and essay collections.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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Updated announcement: This novel is being made into a movie. I want to thank Emmi for this wonderful interview. My first pleasure was reading her book, Memory of Water. The novel takes place in the future after climate change has ravished economies and ecologies, and made fresh water scarce. When […]
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Please join our nature community to discuss the contest or just to chat about climate change fiction! Note that this contest ended in the summer of 2014. This is a short story contest, not a poetry contest. 100,000 Poets for Change is a broad event that includes all types of […]
Read MoreThe University of Oregon is calling for papers. From the site: If you would like to propose an original essay for this volume, please submit an abstract of approximately 300 words in which you describe the approach to teaching climate change that you would like to cover and an overview […]
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Thanks so much to Sarah Holding, author of the SeaBEAN Trilogy, for this wonderful interview. We are thrilled to talk to this awesome and talented writer who is very active in her community. Mary: I recently did a little study at Eco-fiction.com (now Dragonfly.eco) in a project where I categorized […]
Read MoreFrom the BIOSPHERE website: When: Saturday 14 June, 7:45 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Where: Watershed, Bristol, £5/£4 concessions Contact: Book online or telephone 0117 927 5100 The Festival of Nature presents an evening of spoken word performance featuring leading international writers and poets responding to the impact of climate change on […]
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Copyright and written by Gregers Andersen, sent in 2014 to this site for publication after a personal discussion with its author. Because it has been plagiarized by the same individual twice now, I ask that you please respect the copyright and contact Gregers Andersen if you wish to reprint this […]
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Mary of Eco-fiction.com recently interviewed first-time novelist Lisa Devaney about her title In Ark: A Promise of Survival. Your book, In Ark: A Promise of Survival, is set in a future world. How did you imagine this future scenario? I’ve always been intrigued by what might happen in the future. […]
Read MoreClimate change fiction seems to fall into one of two categories: 1) anthropogenic climate change fiction and b) other books about climate events but not necessarily climate change. Only two books have been reader-submitted that don’t fit into these categories. These books are listed below. Michael Chricton’s State of Fear […]
Read MoreSee Festival of Ideas for more information. From the site: James Lovelock, who has been hailed as ‘the man who conceived the first wholly new way of looking at life on earth since Charles Darwin’ (Independent) and ‘the most profound scientific thinker of our time’ (Literary Review) continues, in his […]
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I had the pleasure of interviewing author John Atcheson after reading his novel A Being Darkly Wise, which is the first part of a trilogy. I read this novel in the course of less than a week, deeply hooked on what it was saying and where it was leading us. […]
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