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 …

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 …

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 …

Interactive

Discord: Rewilding Our Stories: This is the only Discord community I know of that invites everyone to participate in discussions about writing and reading environmental fiction of all genres, whether about climate, animals, water, and everything else under the sun. It’s a new Discord, run by Lovis Geier and the founder of Dragonfly.eco, Mary Woodbury. …

Podcasts & vlogs

Ecofictology by Lovis Geier. A wonderfully intelligent weekly series on eco-fiction subjects, including reviews, genres, writing, and more. Geekoscopy by Dr. Yanasivan Kisten. Exploring the nexus between science, story, wonder, and philosophy. Protectors of the Wood: The Protectors of the Wood Eco-Fiction Adventure Series is an illustrated story of a group of teenagers who save …

Reference & blogs

ALECC: The Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada / Association pour la littérature, l’environnement et la culture au Canada (ALECC) is an organization for the creation, appreciation, discussion, analysis, and dissemination of knowledge about the work of nature writers, environmental writers and journalists, eco-artists of all disciplines, ecocritics, and ecotheorists in Canada. Artists …