News & Events
For recent news, see the widget at the top of the site. Also, see my list of upcoming novels in 2021.
Older news: On August 9th the site celebrated its 8th anniversary. I posted the Impacts of Environmental Survey results. I also have a second part to the large and ongoing look at ecological and climate ruin in fiction. See Medium.com.
https://www.southwestern.edu/live/news/14534-scholarly-perspectives-on-covid-19-part-8 Interesting look at apocalypse and its origins in storytelling.
Scholarly Perspectives on COVID-19, Part 8: Apocalypse or Dystopia?
Professor and Elizabeth Root Paden Chair in Religion and Environmental Studies Laura Hobgood shares how COVID-19 has shaped the conversation in her Apocalyps...
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Featuring an interview with Amy Barker (Paradise Earth) and Donna Mulvenna on this month's world ecofiction series. Traveling to Tasman Peninsula, the novel starkly reflects on the Port Arthur massacre & how it affected people and the natural landscape. https://dragonfly.eco/paradise-earth
Paradise Earth, Amy Barker - Dragonfly: An Exploration of Eco-fiction
Click here to return to the series The global novel exists, not as a genre separated from and opposed to … Continue reading →
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I chatted with Indie Corner author Joel Burcat about his environmental legal thriller series! Check it out at https://dragonfly.eco/indie-corner-joel-burcat/
Indie Corner - Joel Burcat - Dragonfly: An Exploration of Eco-fiction
Back to the Indie Corner series It’s been cool to meet Joel Burcat, an author and recently retired environmental lawyer, … Continue reading →
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Get going on your writing in the new year! Coming up at the "Rewilding Our Stories" Discord, Lovis and I will be hosting word-sprint exercises every Sunday at 2:00 pm EST. See https://discord.com/invite/Dqk5cXcjXk for the Discord invite.
It's a semi-private community, to keep out bullies and trolls, but just follow the directions when you join and you will be promoted and be able to see the rest of the community.
It's a semi-private community, to keep out bullies and trolls, but just follow the directions when you join and you will be promoted and be able to see the rest of the community.
https://www.thehindu.com/books/how-2020-emerged-as-the-year-of-the-book/article33411027.ece "Conjuring up red foxes, birch trees, jackdaws — beings at once commonplace and magical — it evokes the wonder of everyday nature. It’s odd that the trend of eco-fiction hasn’t caught on in India — is there a message here? Stephen Alter’s Feral Dreams can be seen as a good start though: taking off from The Jungle Book, it re-examines certain persistent and pressing concerns — ecological, social, existential. Alter is finely tuned to nature: the forest in Feral Dreams is beautiful, menacing and fast-vanishing."
How 2020 emerged as the year of the book
As the chatter outside receded, we went back to an older, wholesome world — touching books, smelling the pages, identifying with literary characters
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https://dragonfly.eco/eco-fiction-books-coming-in-2021/ A sampling of #ecofiction coming in the new year.
Eco-fiction Books Coming in 2021 - Dragonfly: An Exploration of Eco-fiction
I learned a basic model in an anthropology class long ago, that a cultural pyramid’s base was the environment and … Continue reading →
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