Women Working in Nature and the Arts Mary of Eco-fiction talks with Jennifer Harrington, a Toronto-based illustrator, graphic designer, and author of children’s eco-books. Her book Spirit Bear is a wonderful fictional trek into the Great Bear Rainforest and is published by Eco Books 4 Kids. See the site for […]
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Thanks very much to Red Constantino, from the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities–publisher of the new book Agam: Filipino Narratives on Uncertainty and Climate Change–for permissions to excerpt the cover and other information about the book, and for providing assistance in finding out more about this amazing title. Blockquotes […]
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First published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads, driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their […]
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This is strange, and interesting, but in between is some writing about marriage, love, fidelity, Europe, and saving the earth that is as funny and as grown-up as anything I’ve read in years. -Keith Gessen See FlavorWire for more. Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads
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Thanks to author JoeAnn Hart, whose short climate change story “It Won’t Be Long Now” was selected to appear at Eco-fiction.com’s contest final presentation. On Float: A wry tale of financial desperation, conceptual art, insanity, infertility, seagulls, marital crisis, jellyfish, organized crime, and the plight of a plastic-filled ocean, JoeAnn […]
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Imagination and Climate Futures Initiative at Arizona State University presents An Evening with Margaret Atwood, at the Herberger Theatre for the Arts, November 5, 2014. Internationally renowned novelist and environmental activist Margaret Atwood will visit Arizona State University this November to discuss the relationship between art and science and the […]
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The narrator of this extraordinary tale is a man in search for truth. He answers an ad in a local newspaper from a teacher looking for serious pupils, only to find himself alone in an abandoned office with a full-grown gorilla who is nibbling delicately on a slender branch. “You […]
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An audacious, darkly glittering novel about art, fame, and ambition set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse, from the author of three highly acclaimed previous novels. One snowy night a famous Hollywood actor slumps over and dies onstage during a production of King Lear. Hours later, the world as […]
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In a presumably late-21st Century/early-22nd Century timeframe, somewhere in the rural South of the United States of America, in a world that is slowly going to hell but in which technology which is now, in the early 21st Century, in its infancy, is commonplace and well advanced from the state […]
Read MoreJohn Atcheson is author of the novel, A Being Darkly Wise, an eco-thriller and Book One of The Earth Trilogy, which traces a small group’s attempt to deal with global warming over the course of fifty years. His writing has appeared in the Washington Post, Baltimore Sun, the San Jose […]
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Nine year old Josie Garcia is a feisty and optimistic girl from Brooklyn who becomes a crusader for preventing disastrous climate change and other environmental threats. In each book, Josie takes simple, ingenious actions that bring real changes to her neighborhood and the world. As the protagonist in the series, […]
Read MoreMichael Donoghue mostly lives in his head, but resides in Vancouver, Canada. His stories have appeared in various anthologies, literary journals and sci-fi magazines. Michael works in healthcare, where he spends much of his time preoccupied with hand washing. He can be found on twitter @mpdonoghue.
Read MoreAnneliese Schultz, MFA ’77, won the 2013 Enizagam Literary Award in Fiction. Her story, “Child”, was selected by final judge Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, a recent New Yorker ‘20 under 30’, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. In 2012, Anneliese’s stories were also finalists in the Surrey International Writers’ […]
Read MoreJohn Life is the pen name for a writer fascinated by returning eagles to Ireland and their struggles to breed while battling wildlife rivals and human predators in a land where their species had been extinct for over one hundred years. He also has a deep interest in alternative lifestyles […]
Read MoreWatch for many of these stories in the anthology Winds of Change: Short Stories about our Climate, coming this fall (2015).
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