The Dragonfly Library contains many excerpts of green reads–stories that speak from our place in the natural world. The Dragonfly Library welcomes 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 additions:

A few new excerpts:

• A sample of my novella Bird Song is up at the publisher website!
• A new excerpt of The Shivering Ground, thanks to author Sara Barkat

Edited by World Fantasy Award winner Lavie Tidhar, The Best of World SF: Volume 1 collects 26 new short stories from authors representing 21 countries, including France, China, Singapore, Nigeria, India, Japan, Italy, and Cuba. io9 has a first look at the entry by Tlotlo Tsamaase, who hails from Botswana.

Also, check out not just an excerpt but a free anthology, Africanfuturism–An Anthology, edited by Wole Talabi and written by Nnedi Okorafor, TL Huchu, Dilman Dila, Rafeeat Aliyu, Tlotlo Tsamaase, Mame Bougouma Diene, Mazi Nwonwu, and Derek Lubangakene. The featured image is a thumbnail of that anthology, offered by Brittle Paper, which encourages people to share the anthology.

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
• Aronson, Virginia: Mottainai: A Journey in Search of the Zero Waste Life
• Arthur, Virginia – Treed
• Aslan, Austin – Islands at the End of the World
• Atcheson, John – How Close to Savage the Soul
• Bailey, Richard R. – Stormy
• Barkat, Sara – The Shivering Ground
• 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
• Cole-Misch, Sally – The Best Part of Us
• Collins, Paul – The Apology
• Cowley, Kell – Shrinking Sinking Land
• Datnow, Claire – The Adventures of the Sizzling Six, The Winds of Change: Children’s Environmental Climate Fiction
• D’Avanzo, Charlene – Cold Blood, Hot Sea
• De León, Aya – At Orion Magazine, serialized excerpts of The Mystery Woman in Room Three
• 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, Bird Song
• Hyde, Jonni – Irrevocable Acts
• Ize-Iyamu, Osahon – More Sea than Tar
• Knightley, H.D. – Belief
• James, Kelvin Christopher – Augments of Change
• Judge, Gordon – Dubito, Ergo Sum
• Kilduff, Rowan – Nature poetry
• 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
• Masover, Steve – Consequence
• McClure, Michael – Touching the Edge: Dharma Devotions from the Hummingbird Sangha
• McGee, Chris – Mr. Green Jeans
• 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
• Mkangelwa, Luvuyo – Poems
• 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
• Okungbowa, Suyi Davies – Dune Song
• Onwualu, Chinelo – What the Dead Man Said
• 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, Kim Stanley – Ministry for the Future
• 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
• Serpell, Namwali – The Old Drift
• Slaven, Marissa – Code Blue
• Spitzer, Mark – Garapaima
• Sinclair, Upton – The Jungle
• Solomon, River – The Deep (audio)
• Sparks, Cat – Lotus Blue
• Talabi, Wole – Africanfuturism-An Anthology (editor)
• 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
• Tsamaase, Tlotlo – Eclipse Our Sins and Botswana
• VanderMeer, Jeff – Annihilation, Hummingbird Salamander
• 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