I’m happy to chat with Susan Kaye Quinn, editor of Bright Green Futures: 2024. It’s a collection of short solarpunk stories from guests of the Bright Green Futures podcast, lifting up stories to build a better world. These hopeful stories include clicky space centipedes, sentient trees, a flooded future Rio […]
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This interview is a Turning the Tide spotlight on Tracy Blom, author of the Wonder Lens Friends series. The first book, Lissa Loves Bugs, illustrated by Cathy Morrison, is out June 4 by Paw Prints Publishing. Mary: Hi Tracy, and welcome to Dragonfly! Tell us something about your life that […]
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Turning the Tide: The Youngest Generation Spotlight Series Children’s bookshelf | YA/teen bookshelf | Book reviews | Spotlights | Resources and teacher links | Games | Films News: In May 2025, we spotlight Tracy Blom, who is writing a middle-grade chapter book series. The first book, The Wonder Lens Friends: […]
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I had the great pleasure to talk with Cristina Jurado, author of several novels and collections. In this interview we’ll focus on her newest novella ChloroPhilia, translated by Sue Burke and published by Apex Book Company (May 18, 2025). About the Book Would you sacrifice your humanity to save the […]
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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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Katy Wimhurst has had three collections of short stories published—An Orchid in My Belly Button (Elsewhen Press, 2025), Snapshots of the Apocalypse (Fly on the Wall Press, 2022), and Let Them Float (Alien Buddha Press, 2023). Her first book of visual eco poems was Fifty-One Trillion Bits (Trickhouse Press, 2023). She sometimes interviews writers for 3AM Magazine. More […]
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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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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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About the Book This Indie Corner shares a Turning the Tide spotlight, which is a section of the site that highlights eco-fiction for younger audiences. In fact, this month’s author, Adrian So, had his novel accepted for publication at age 14. The Groundworld Heroes is coming out this August […]
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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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