Click here to return to the world eco-fiction series About the Book I enjoyed reading this witty novella set in lively gardens with speaking animals, two lovers discovering each other and how language envelops their world, and the whims of other gardeners and intermittent poetry, all beneath sunny London skies. […]
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I’m so pleased to talk with Tory Stephens, who I worked with recently to syndicate two stories from Grist’s Imagine 2200 climate fiction contest. This is Imagine’s third short story contest celebrating stories that offer vivid, hope-filled, diverse visions of climate progress. This year’s judges were Paolo Bacigalupi, Nalo Hopkinson, […]
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Back to the Indie Corner series Today I chat with Eric James Fullilove, author of Overlord (Atmosphere Press), a climate change speculative fiction novel. Eric James Fullilove is an MIT graduate, CPA, and published author. He has worked in mainstream media (CBS, Young and Rubicam advertising, and Scholastic, the children’s […]
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Click here to return to the world eco-fiction series About the Book In Michikusa House (Homebound Publications, 2023), Winona Heeley spent the last year of recovery from eating disorders in rural Japan, at Michikusa House, alongside one other full-time resident: Jun Nakashima. Like Winona, Jun was a recovering addict and […]
Read MoreDiscord writing prompt: The first contribution call is for personal narratives, ranging from 500-2,000 words, on how your life is affected by ecological changes, including climate change. © Jack Waro Jack Waro scribbles things about ecology and art at https://jackwaro.substack.com/. A pair of aging protestors and I stand beneath the […]
Read MoreDiscord writing prompt: The first contribution call is for personal narratives, ranging from 500-2,000 words, on how your life is affected by ecological changes, including climate change. © Mary Woodbury Mary’s LinkTree. Author of the Back to the Garden, The Stolen Child, and Bird Song: A Novella. I was just […]
Read MoreDiscord writing prompt: The first contribution call is for personal narratives, ranging from 500-2,000 words, on how your life is affected by ecological changes, including climate change. © Carolyn Welch Author of California Poems, Moon Willow Press (2012) In the late 1990s I drove Laguna Canyon Road for the first […]
Read MoreDiscord writing prompt: The first contribution call is for personal narratives, ranging from 500-2,000 words, on how your life is affected by ecological changes, including climate change. © Sara Davis Downpour Tropical Storm Fay rolled in the week after Independence Day. Usually storm number six doesn’t make landfall until August, […]
Read MoreDiscord writing prompt: The first contribution call is for personal narratives, ranging from 500-2,000 words, on how your life is affected by ecological changes, including climate change. © Nina Munteanu I’m Canadian, and I love the snow. When I grew up in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, we enjoyed a […]
Read MoreDiscord writing prompt: The first contribution call is for personal narratives, ranging from 500-2,000 words, on how your life is affected by ecological changes, including climate change. © Carina Zacharias Find more about Carina at her website, YouTube, and Instagram. We meet at dusk, on a crisp and clear evening […]
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Note that this section of the site stopped taking new submissions in 2023, but in 2024 I’m adding a few submissions from a Rewilding Our Stories Discord writing exercise and might add future submissions from other prompts. Join the Discord if you want to be involved! The newest pieces include […]
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Ever since starting this website in the summer of 2013, I’ve tried to be inclusive with fiction genres that describe the ecological facets of our world and have held the viewpoint that not one genre is more important than another, regardless of media attention and trends. Not one genre always […]
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Back to the Indie Corner series In our last Indie Corner of 2023, I’m thrilled to chat again with Sarah Holding. We haven’t talked in nearly a decade, which is hard to believe! Sarah is a children’s and YA author and poet, known primarily as a climate fiction writer. She […]
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Click here to return to the world eco-fiction series About the Book Wise, funny, touching, wide-ranging, deep-delving; whip-smart dialogue and graceful, paced sentences, thousands upon thousands of them. Written by a novelist with the eye of a poet, and a poet with the narrative powers of a novelist, this is […]
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Click here to return to the world eco-fiction series About the Book This month we travel back to Canada, to the beautiful temperate rainforest on British Columbia’s west coast, to talk with Jess Housty, a writer and grassroots activist of Heiltsuk (Indigenous) and mixed settler heritage. They are based […]
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