News and Events
Read our May newsletter here and see our news archives here.
Our News
- Dragonfly’s May World Eco-fiction spotlight is on Yaba Badoe and her new novel Wolf Light.
- Featured in the Indie Corner is Jaimee Wriston and her novel How Not to Drown. I can’t lie. I am so intrigued by this novel!
- An ongoing invitation to join the Rewilding Our Stories Discord. We’re writing tomorrow’s nature novels and using tools like NaNoWriMo and Winnie Bot’s daily writing goals to help us.
- Rewilding Our Stories began a book club in May and is now reading the wonderful book Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer.
- The Discord community built an Earth Day: What We’re Reading list from our many conversations. Also, check out Dragonfly’s new Book Recommendations section!
- Ecology Action Centre’s spring magazine presents my article celebrating Canadian authors of environmental fiction
- I’m so happy to announce my participation in Scotland’s Cymera Festival. I’ll be joining Bijal Vachharajani, Lauren James, and James Bradley in a panel on writing climate/eco-fictions. This will air on Youtube, June 5.
In Other News
- Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Powers’ upcoming novel Bewilderment film rights were sold to Black Bear Pictures, Plan B.
- According to Variety, Paul McAuley’s novel Austral is getting an epic series adapation from Circle of Confusion Television Studios and ITV Studios’ Big Talk Productions.
- Tor.com has another list of Ten Eco-fiction Novels. by Nina Munteanu.
- Though it was published around Earth Day, these novels boosted by NPR are for every day.
- Book Riot lists three new dystopian novels of the environmental kind.
- Game Rant reports a reboot of Perfect Dark, this with an eco-sci-fi twist.
- On May 26th is a talk called Children’s Fiction and the Climate Crisis, with Ele Fountain, Hannah Gold, and Piers Torday–hosted by Pushkin’s Children’s Books and Tales on Moon Lane.