I don’t know about you, but here in Nova Scotia, spring has just barely arrived. We’ve noticed buds on the fruit trees and a few colt’s feet springing up in the meadow. It’s an exciting time of year, and there’s a lot of news to share!
Our News
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. Check the link above for the events calendar. This panel discussion will air on YouTube.
If you haven’t joined our “Rewilding Our Stories” Discord yet, it’s never too late! A couple of us are participating in NaNoWriMo’s April camp and other daily writing goals. Winnie Bot helps us hatch raptors each time we complete a daily goal.
In this month's world eco-fiction feature, I talk with Jamaican author Diana McCaulay, whose novel Daylight Come is set in the future on a fictional Jamaican Island Bajacu.
The April Indie Corner spotlight is on Anne Coray, author of Lost Mountain. She lives in Alaska, whose natural beauty inspires her writing.
My April post for the Backyard Wildlife series looks at the very early spring when we are pre-planning our garden and tree-planting.
I get so many questions about genres that reflect our natural world, and there's quite a bit of confusion since often news media isn't always consistent. Here's a guide I wrote to help that confusion!
Thanks to Kimberly Christensen for her review of Sim Kern's Depart, Depart.
Coming soon: An article in Nova Scotia I wrote, featuring Canadian eco-fiction.
In Other News
Jeff VanderMeer's Hummingbird Salamander is out, and it's getting great reviews. (Linking his Twitter, because he usually links to reviews and you get to also see the great stories of wildlife in his back yard.)
Book Riot offers another eco-fiction reading list, this one concentrating on thrillers.
Migros Museum in Switzerland is featuring an art eco-fiction gallery until May 9th.
I had a chance to listen to a talk by Jaimee Wriston Colbert, Binghampton University's lecture series. Her talk was on "Giving Nature a Voice: Jaimee Wriston Colbert on Writing Eco-fiction." I've interviewed her twice before about her novels Wild Things and Vanishing Acts. Look forward to another interview soon on her upcoming novel.
Arizona State University has a new solarpunk anthology, Cities of Light. Free for download.
Resources
In case you’ve missed these exciting resources at Dragonfly, which are constantly being updated, check ‘em out!
World’s biggest playlist? Our environmental/nature song-of-the-week playlist, which goes back to 2016.
List of eco/climate films and documentaries
Ecofiction links and resources
Book database (with well over 800 titles)
Turning the Tide: The Youngest Generation (fiction aimed toward children, teens, and young adults)
Indie Corner: New as of last summer, we give a hats off to authors who publish independently
Backyard Wildlife: A new-ish hidden gem exploring how we are rewilding our own back yard and meadow
Artists & Climate Change. This is an extraordinary resource delving into all of the arts and climate change. For a while now they’ve been rerunning older world ecofiction spotlight authors from Dragonfly. Recently they’ve made me a core writer for their team, and I’m both honored and grateful. Look for my “Wild Authors” series there.
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