This library contains many excerpts of green reads–stories that speak from our place in the natural world. The Dragonfly Library welcome submissions of all kinds–nonfiction, fiction, poetry & prose, graphic novel, and short story excerpts. You may also submit nonfiction nature writing in the forms of articles and essays. See Dragonfly Library’s submission guidelines.

Newest addition: Thomas Hibbard’s poetry excerpt from Invisible Wings: Coronavirus 2020 Poems; the newest featured image is credited to Big Bridge Magazine, where it was posted along with Thomas’s writings on surrealism.

Note: We’re now adding excerpts from other places. These entries have an external link icon next to them.

Authors and Titles

• Aithal – The Galaxy Series
• Arthur, Virginia – Treed
• Aslan, Austin – Islands at the End of the World
• Atcheson, John – How Close to Savage the Soul
• Bailey, Richard R. – Stormy
• Barrett, C.M. – The Dragon Who Didn’t Fly
• Blackwell, Mat – Beef
• Blackwood, Algernon – The Willows
• Brandes, Kate – The Promise of Pierson Orchard
• Brunner, Kym – Flip the Bird
• Burt, Brian – In the Tears of God, Blood Tide
• Cameron, D.M. – Beneath the Mother Tree
• Cerqueira, João – Jesus and Magdalene
• Chauvel, Armand – The Green and the Red
• Chadha, Olivia – Balance of Fragile Things
• Clinton, Jack – Clovis
• Coleman, Peagum – In Search of Staria
• Collins, Paul – The Apology
• Cowley, Kell – Shrinking Sinking Land
• Datnow, Claire – The Adventures of the Sizzling Six
• D’Avanzo, Charlene – Cold Blood, Hot Sea
• Dreese, Donelle – Cave Walker
• Driver, D.G. – Whisper of the Woods, Cry of the Sea
• Dunn, Cate – Gentle
• Groenendijk, Jessica – Something Special
• Fiore, Carol – Countdown
• Follansbee, J.G. – Carbon Run
• Fraterrigo, Melissa – Glory Days
• Gadd, Jeremy – The Suicide Season
• Green, Gila – No Entry
• Greene, Randal Eldon – Descriptions of Heaven
• Habila, Helon – Oil on Water
• Hibbard, Tom – The Sacred River of Consciousness, Schizpo Code Zero: The Economics of Ambiguity and Creation of Value part 1 and part 2, Invisible Wings, Coronavirus 2020 Poems
• Holmes, Marc Taro – The Apocalypse Variations: Thirty Paintings in Thirty Days
• Hoover, Erin – Barnburner
• Houk, Emily et al. – Reckoning: Journal of Environmental Justice Fiction
• Hoyle, Trevor – The Last Gasp
• Hume, Clara – The Midnight Moon, Back to the Garden, Lost Ages
• Hyde, Jonni – Irrevocable Acts
• Knightley, H.D. – Belief
• James, Kelvin Christopher – Augments of Change
• Judge, Gordon – Dubito, Ergo Sum
• Kingsolver, Barbara – Prodigal Summer
• Kraus, James – The Forester
• Kroes, Ken – 2022
• Lenning, K.E. – The Melt Trilogy
• Ligget, William – Watermelon Snow
• Lord, Nancy – pH, a Novel
• Lowe, Stephen – Chimbo Sok
• May, Rachel – The Audit
• Mays, Anthony – Halfway to the Truth
• McGee, Chris – Mr. Green Jeans
• Masover, Steve – Consequence
• Melchiore, Ron – Off Grid and Free: My Path to the Wilderness: Which Way Do I Go?, Wandering for 165 Days and Nights
• Mellor, Belinda – Silvana: The Greening
• Melville, Herman – Moby Dick
• Mercer, George: Dyed in the Green series: Wood Buffalo
• Milton, John – Paradise Lost
• Morin, J.L. – Nature’s Confession
• Morrison, Duncan – Hope or High Water
• Muir, John – Our National Parks
• Mulvenna, Donna – All Things Breathe Alike, The Silence Spreading Across the Natural World, Wild Roots: Coming Alive in the Natural World
• Naresh, Mehek – Left Behind
• Ogden, Don – Bad Atmosphere: A Collection of Poetry & Prose on the Climate Crisis
• Newton, J.L. – Oink: A Food for Thought Mystery
• Popielaski, John – The Hollow Middle
• Pratt, Annis – The Road to Beaver Mill, Fly Out of Darkness, The Marshlanders
• Prescott, Bev – 2 Degrees
• Prideaux, Margi – Beautiful Giant
• Raymond, Midge – My Last Continent
• Robinson, Lorin R. – Tales from the Warming
• Rohini Bisgaard, Tanja  2047: Short Stories from Our Common Future
  
• Rommel, Keith – Ice Canyon Monster
• Ryan, Jean – Survival Skills
• Sampler, Patrik – The Ocean Container
• Schaefer, James A. – Two Houses of Oikos
• Slaven, Marissa – Code Blue
• Spitzer, Mark – Garapaima
• Sinclair, Upton – The Jungle
• Sparks, Cat – Lotus Blue
• Tavormina, Patricia – Aerovoyant: The Industrial Age, Volume One
• Tepperman, Jean – Warning from My Future Self
• Thorpe, David – Stormteller, Weatherfronts
• Tillman, Ned – Saving the Places We Love
• VanderMeer, Jeff – Annihilation
• Verant, M – Power in the Age of Lies: A Political Thriller
• Walker, Lisa – Melt
• Welch, Carolyn – California Poems
• Woodbury, Mary – The Little Big Town
• Wright, Anthony – Pimp the Cosmos
• Wristen Colbert – Jaimee – Wild Things, Vanishing Acts
• Yunker, John – The Tourist Trail
• Zachary, Eichholz – The End of the Beginning
• Zetland, David et al. – Life Plus 2 Meters, Volume 1 and Life Plus 2 Meters, Volume 2 with John Sayer, Emma J. Myatt
• Zornado, J. – Gods of the Little Earth, The Power at the Bottom of the Earth, When Immortals Reign