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Including a handmade scroll by Diane Samuels Oct 14, 2022 – Jan 30, 2023 Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University Diane Samuels’ incredible 20″ x 160′ scroll is a hand-transcription in micro-script of Richard Powers’ The Overstory. The text side is made of strips of recycled drawings, prints, and papers from the artist’s studio. The dimensions of …
© Sara Davis Downpour Tropical Storm Fay rolled in the week after Independence Day. Usually storm number six doesn’t make landfall until August, but you might say that 2020 was a tempestuous year. That Friday, it rained all day. Marooned in South Philadelphia without a car, I watched from my window for a break in …
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 …
© Carolyn Welch Author of California Poems, Moon Willow Press (2012) In the late 1990s I drove Laguna Canyon Road for the first time. It goes from near the Irvine Spectrum Center to the Pacific Ocean, though I had driven that first time from the next town east, Laguna Hills. I fell in love with …
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 …
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 …
© Mary Woodbury Mary’s LinkTree. Author of the Back to the Garden, The Stolen Child, and Bird Song: A Novella. I was just a teenager when Pappaw died and just over a month later, Mammaw died. I can’t remember whose funeral it was when I learned about the pine trees. I do remember my mother’s …
© Jack Waro Jack Waro scribbles things about ecology and art at https://jackwaro.substack.com/. A pair of aging protestors and I stand beneath the Official Halls of Power. We talk doom and gloom. Chatting about the weather with two old ladies. “It’s different,” says one. She’s been protesting since the 1970s. “In the past it was …
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 …