Click here to return to the world eco-fiction series Earth Day 2025 I’m happy to reunite with a colleague from Vancouver days, Isaac Yuen, to celebrate Earth Day 2025. I first met Isaac nearly a decade ago when we participated in an Earth Day climate change and storytelling panel at […]
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Welcome to the World Eco-fiction Series: Climate Change and Beyond. This spotlight series travels the planet exploring fictional stories close to natural landscapes and wildlife, often with environmental concerns. If you like this series, check out our article at Medium, “Around the World in 80 Books: A Guide to Ecological […]
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Click here to return to the world eco-fiction series Recently I had the opportunity to talk with Aneesa Jamal, founder of Cogitation Club in India. Aneesa is also a NAAEE CEE Change Fellow 2023; Global Fellow, Center for Climate Literacy, University of Minnesota; and PhD Researcher, Curriculum & Instruction, Universiti […]
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Click here to return to the world eco-fiction series Chat with Nichole To add to the world eco-fiction spotlight, I’m so happy to kickstart my focus on words and art from Appalachia this year with Nichole Amber Moss, who I met in the Rewilding our Stories Discord a few years […]
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Click here to return to the world eco-fiction series About the Book Nearly a year ago, when helping to raise awareness of Grist’s Imagine 2022 Climate Fiction Contest winners, we talked with Tory Stephens, Grist’s Creative Manager of the Imagine 2200 initiative. Now we have exciting news about a new […]
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Click here to return to the world eco-fiction series About the Book You Will Speak for the Dead (Stelliform Press, 2024), is a transformative body horror novella from Shirley Jackson Award winning author R.A. Busby. Paul Simard’s life is a mess. When his mother dies, and his boyfriend moves out, […]
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Click here to return to the world eco-fiction series About the Book The visionary new fantasy thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author Manda Scott. Any Human Power (September Publishing, 2024) As Lan lies dying, she makes a promise that binds her long into the Beyond. A decade later, her […]
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About the Book The October world eco-fiction spotlight is on Thomas R. Weaver’s Artificial Wisdom (initially published by Chainmaker Press, 2024). The author independently published the novel but recently agreed to sell the rights to Del Rey, an imprint of Penguin Random House. The book will have a slightly revised […]
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About the Book & Project Naniki (meaning ‘active spirit’ in the Taino language) is a cross-platform story project authored by Oonya Kempadoo, published as a Caribbean-futurist novel, Naniki (Rare Machines, Dundurn Press, Toronto, Jan 2024); it’s produced as an immersive and live-performance experience; with preliminary concept development for VR and […]
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Click here to return to the world eco-fiction series About the Book Renan Bernardo’s Different Kinds of Defiance (Android Press, March 2024) is a collection for the rebels at heart—for those who find courage where hope seems lost and for whom every act of resistance is an act of sheer […]
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Click here to return to the world eco-fiction series About the Book Charlie J. Stephens‘ A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest came out by Torrey House Press this April. In 1980’s Oregon, Smokey is figuring out how to survive childhood with a young mom who is increasingly desperate in her search […]
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Click here to return to the world eco-fiction series About the Book Lost Ark Dreaming is out May 21, 2024: Macmillan Publishers/Tordotcom. The brutally engineered class divisions of Snowpiercer meet Rivers Solomon’s The Deep in this high-octane post-climate disaster novella by Nommo Award-winning author Suyi Davies Okungbowa. Off the coast […]
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Click here to return to the world eco-fiction series About the Book Green Fuse Burning (Stelliform Press, 2023) is “a transformative Indigenous eco-horror novella from Mi’kmaw writer Tiffany Morris.” “Green Fuse Burning is an impressively vigorous fiction debut from a truly dynamic storyteller. Tiffany Morris has laid out a concise […]
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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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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 […]
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