Authors: © Donna Mulvenna, Jessica Groenendijk, and Margi Prideaux Publisher: Stormbird Press Publication Date: February 2017 Type: Nonfiction Ordering: Free e-book available from Donna Mulvenna, Jessica Groenendijk, and Margi Prideaux Where Journeys Begin (Introduction) Some believe the natural world is our real home. The place where we came from. Could […]
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Title: Our National Parks Author: John Muir Publication: In the public domain. Originally: “In this book, made up of sketches first published in the Atlantic Monthly, I have done the best I could to show forth the beauty, grandeur, and all-embracing usefulness of our wild mountain forest reservations and parks, […]
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Author: © Ned Tillman Publication Date: 2014 Type: Nonfiction Ordering: Amazon Social Media: Amazon Author Page, Author Website, Facebook, LinkedIn Prologue to Saving the Places we Love First Loss The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing. — Edward Abbey Good Endeavor Farm, 1962 — I woke […]
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Author: Algernon Blackwood (public domain copyright) Publication Date: 1907 as part of The Listener and Other Stories Back to the Dragonfly Library Note: the following excerpt takes place midway into the short novella and may contain spoilers. They first became properly visible, these huge figures, just within the tops of […]
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Over a decade ago, when I was chief editor of Jack Magazine, issues would have themes, whether South African poetry or Gregory Corso or Philip Whalen or science fiction and fantasy–all of these usually punctuated with narratives about nature. When I closed the magazine and opened Moon Willow Press, I […]
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Back to the series It’s time to spotlight authors thinking and writing about global warming. Let’s start with Jeff VanderMeer, who tackles environmental issues in his novels. As a reader, I was so influenced by the Southern Reach Trilogy that it motivated me to read other authors and concepts described […]
Read MoreAuthor: © Mehek Naresh Type: Short Story Social Media: Twitter, Author Blog Congratulations to Mehek Naresh for winning the Eco-fiction 2016 Solarpunk Short Story Contest! This short story is published whole. Judges were Claudie Arseneault, author of Viral Airwaves and editor of Wings of Renewal: A Solarpunk Dragon Anthology, and […]
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I found this book among a collection of “The Works of F. Hopkinson Smith” at Brown’s Books in Burnaby. I didn’t buy the whole collection but simply chose the book that looked tempting to me. I often joke that if reincarnation were real, I would most certainly have lived a […]
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Occasionally we add prose and poetry that creatively circumvent issues of the environment. In an Eco-fiction stage at the 2016 Word Vancouver, Mr. Collis read with others whose works call for at least thought, if not action, on some aspect of an environmental crisis. What happens when a poetry professor […]
Read MoreAuthor: © John Atcheson Publisher: Moon Willow Press Publication Date: October 16, 2015 Type: Short Story from the Winds of Change anthology Author Links: Common Dreams, Author Website, Twitter Download Link Back to the Dragonfly Library The aromas hit him like a fist, poised there over five decades, waiting until […]
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In a world that’s quickly heating up and drying up, you can’t go home again—even if you never leave—Clive Thompson Barbara Kingsolver’s 2012 novel Flight Behavior was, according to The Globe and Mail, the first novel that dealt “specifically, determinedly and overtly with climate change. [And] only Kingsolver could pull […]
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Thanks to João Cerqueira for information about his novel Jesus and Magdalene, published by Line by Lion Publications in July 2016. It is available for order at Amazon. The novel won the silver medal at the 2015 Latino Book Awards with the original title A segunda vinda de Cristo à […]
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Author: © Mary Woodbury Publisher: Moon Willow Press Type: Fiction (Children’s Novella) Publication Date: 1st published January 2010 Ordering: Amazon Social Media: Facebook Excerpt from Part IV. Holidays On Sunday, the whole family piled into the Blazer and drove to the outskirts of Tarkin where the Harvest Festival was being […]
Read MoreThanks to everyone who attended! The readings went great, and we had some thoughtful Q&A from the audience afterward. Please see our Facebook for photos from the event. FREE EVENT – No tickets required! Community Garden “Eco-fiction, memoir, and a variety of non-fiction presentations” To celebrate 100,000 Poets (Authors and […]
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Author: © Armand Chauvel Translator: Elisabeth Lyman Publisher: Ashland Creek Press Type: Fiction Publication Date: 2014 Ordering: Amazon Social Media: Goodreads, Facebook, Our Hen House Review Back to the Dragonfly Library Chapter 1 Léa scanned the menu desperately in search of an escape route. She’d come to Paris for the […]
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