Events

Events 100,000 Poets for Change: Annual event involving poets, musicians, and artists around the world in a demonstration/celebration to promote peace and sustainability and to call for serious social, environmental and political change. ARTCOP21: In a multidisciplinary and innovative spirit, COAL mobilizes artists and cultural actors on social and environmental issues and supports the creation …

Eco-games

Thanks to so many wonderful game suggestions (primarily video games, but not all) from the Rewilding Our Stories community, we have a new eco-gaming section here at Dragonfly. While some games lean toward environmental lessons and strategize ways to reconstruct ecological systems, others beautifully immerse the player into an explorative world where nature and wilderness …

What we’re reading

In 2021, Ecofictology’s Lovis Geier and I decided to start a Discord community titled Rewilding Our Stories. We wanted a discussion community to serve academics, journalists, scientists, publishers, authors, artists, musicians, game designers, readers, and others interested in the “mama genre” of eco-fiction. This category of literature covers stories in which nature, the environment, and …

April 2022 – Flights of Foundry

The Rewilding Our Stories Discord was so excited to have been accepted into 2022’s Flights of Foundry conference. The link is still up but might go away before the 2023 event. The Discord is a group of eco-fiction readers who are interested in climate and ecological themes in contemporary and speculative arts and literature. We …

Book club

Visit Discord’s #book-club for more information and always check the pinned posts for the latest updates. Currently we’re suggesting our next book club read until August 20. At that time, we’ll take a few days to vote and then allow some time for acquiring the winning suggestion. Our reading schedule is casual and allows you …

Book publishers

Ashland Creek Press is a small, independent publisher of books with a world view. Their mission is to publish a range of books that foster an appreciation for worlds outside our own, for nature and the animal kingdom, and for the ways in which we all connect. Bellevue Literary Press: Books at the intersection of …

Journals & mags

About Place is a literary journal published by the Black Earth Institute dedicated to re-forging the links between art and spirit, earth and society. Augur Magazine: Some examples of what they’re looking for: Afrofuturism, soft scifi, scifi-fabulism, scifi-fantasy, Indigenous futurity, hopepunk, dystopia, utopia, post-apoc, solarpunk, scifi-realism, Canadian scifi, ecofiction, & “hopeful futures” from marginalized authors. …

Interesting projects

Agam Agenda: A dynamic, shape-shifting platform for creative, trans-disciplinary collaboration designed to grow and contribute to fluid networks of climate-aware writers, artists, scientists, youth, and campaigners. ClimateCultures: Creative cultural responses to environmental and climate change. Climaginaries: A three-year research project initiated in September 2018, financed through the Swedish research council FORMAS. The overarching aim of …