New: Join our 2025 book club! See details below about how to join the Discord and then check out the 2025 book club channel and our Storygraph challenge.
Rewilding our Stories provides an inclusive, diverse, and safe space to explore the broad subjects of ecologically oriented fiction and creative nonfiction, which cover important connections, dependencies, and interactions between people and their natural environments. The range of genres found in this field of literature—which can include environmental and nature themes in Black and Indigenous fiction and futurisms, decolonization literature, magical realism, literary and contemporary fiction, science fiction, fantasy, solarpunk, 2SLGBTQ+ literature, and more—is evolving. We’ve been around since 2020 and have ~350 members. Help us to become a larger community so that we can become eligible for server discovery!
Once you join the Discord, also join our starter pack on Bluesky!
Join Rewilding our Stories Discord
- To join the Rewilding Our Stories Discord, download Discord (downloading is preferable to opening in the browser).
- Create an account if you haven’t already.
- Click our permanent invite here.
- Wa-la! You should now be a part of the Discord.
Get Started After Joining
Discord can be confusing at first, but there are ways to jump in, get started, minimize confusion, and maximize your enjoyment. Note that phone and desktop application appearances are slightly different.
- After joining, let us know something about yourself in post-here-first. Once you do that, we’ll manually upgrade your role so that you can participate in more channels.
- Set up your user profile with User Settings. In Settings, you can do a lot: customize your profile (avatar, about me, etc.), turn off all notifications (highly suggested), and so forth.
- Under Server Settings, you can also edit your server profile, including your nickname. If you are part of many Discord servers, this is especially helpful as you can have different avatars and nicknames on each server.
- You can minimize or maximize categories. Within categories are channels. If your screen is too busy, or you never visit certain categories or channels, you can right-click and mute them
- The default role for newcomers is eco-nerd. You can view and send messages to most channels. To start, visit #post-here-first and introduce yourself. After introducing yourself, you will be manually promoted to the rewilder role and can view all other public channels.
- Be sure to visit #welcome-and-rules so that you understand Discord’s rules and our posting guidelines. There’s also a Tour Guide that explains the many categories and channels.
- Visit #roles to set pronouns and interests. The role bot is somewhat broken, but still works enough that it’s useful.
- If you have any questions, feel free to ask in #off-topic-chat-and-suggestions. To read important posts in each channel, check the pins. If on a desktop, you can click the pin icon. If on your phone, swipe right while in a channel to see its pinned announcements.
What’s Happening at RoS?
- Join us at Storygraph in our 2025 challenge! And be sure to join the Discord and check out the 2025 book club. (This link won’t work until you join the Discord.) This reading challenge includes reading up to 25 environmental/nature books, similar to 2024. This year, though, we’re picking our own categories and have different bingo cards to use, depending how many books you want to read. Check Discord for all the news.
- Find general info, including rules, tour guide, announcements, roles, and @our-stories—a forum for finding more about our active members (including books, newsletters, social media, articles, films, and more).
- We have an icebreaker chat and monthly question to engage with the community.
- Other chatty channels include #solarpunk, #art-films-music-games, #writer-chat, and more.
- Self-promote your ecologically oriented fiction (only for rewilders and above).
- Get real with the Climate Crisis category and forums, where you can find and contribute ideas on disaster preparedness and read personal experiences.
