Mary Woodbury | Publisher | Writes #speculative fiction | Curates Dragonfly.eco | Manages translations | Born in Kentucky | Lives in Nova Scotia #ecofiction #climate #nature #appalachia
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OUR MICROFICTION CONTEST IS BACK!! ✍️🌺🐛🍄 We had such a great turnout for our first contest that we're back for a second round to celebrate ECO24! Check the pictures/alt text below for full details. The deadline to email your submission to darian@apexbookcompany.com is SEPTEMBER 25TH @ midnight!
Just found this question. I curate a site all about it (dragonfly.eco), but it's not like a huge genre. I think of it more as composite of other genres.
Here's your daily dose of climate fiction! Meet Me Under the Molokhia A seed researcher meets a mysterious spirit in the field, leaving both with a choice about where they will call home. grist.org/climate-fict... #Romance #Fiction #ClimateFiction #Solarpunk #EcoFiction #SciFi
Here's what Climate Cultures says about my #ecofiction novel "A Diary in the Age of Water" ... #climatefiction #novels #bookreview
THE SUPERBLOOM HAS ARRIVED 🏵️🌹🪷🌻🌷🌼💮 @marissavu.bsky.social and the Violet Lichen team are thrilled to present the cover for ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE FICTION! 🌿 Cover Art: @tropicalgloom.bsky.social Cover Design: Mikio Murakami @ Silent Q Design
buttondown.com/dragonfly.ec... This month's newsletter is a li'l late, but it is here. This issue features fiction about drought, an indie corner with Todd Medema, and a world spotlight on Dheepa R. Maturi. #ecofiction #drought #wildfires
I am still so tickled that THE WORKING is in this 5 best #solarpunk books. Hope you'll read it. fyi, I donate all royalties to #climate #justice organizations. Consider reading all these #books plus seeking out other #hope filled climate fiction.
Great piece.
Thrilling Landscapes! 🏕️ Breathtaking Vistas! 🌎 WILD CREATURES LURKING IN EVERY SHADOW! 🐅 Preorders for ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction, edited by @marissavu.bsky.social, ARE OFFICIALLY OPEN!! 🎉🎉🎉 Visit www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco... and PREORDER TODAY for 30% OFF! 💸
Some environment reporters find writing ecofiction an ideal complement to their day jobs. Drawing on journalistic research skills and curiosity, ecofiction lets them explore environmental issues from a different angle while unleashing their imaginations. #SEJournalFeature www.sej.org/publications...
Attention witchy friends, dark cottagecore fans, and ecofiction lovers! 📣 Apex's sister imprint Violet Lichen has its own website! Novella submissions, blog posts, and updates on our upcoming speculative ecofiction anthology, ECO24, can all be found here. Go take a look! 👁️ 🍄🌱🌙 violetlichen.com 🌙🌱🍄
Flights of Foundry, our annual virtual conference, returns this fall! From September 26 to 28, we'll be hosting around-the-clock panels, discussions, readings, workshops, and more! Don't miss it! Join in the fun and register: flights-of-foundry.o...
July's Dragonfly newsletter is out! buttondown.com/dragonfly.ec... In this issue: #fiction and #water
Excellent resource and info
Just updated this monstrous list of sources related to generative AI--especially its environmental impacts and implications for creative professionals. In case you find any of it relevant to your own work! literarysara.net/for-writers/...
‘I’m a huge fan of magical realism. There is something playful, a lack of constraint, about the genre.. I love the way it creates concrete metaphors to address themes’ Thanks to @dragonfly.eco for interviewing me re my book of magical realist + surreal eco fiction dragonfly.eco/indie-corner...
For sure!
NEW BLOG POST ALERT! 🌱🍄 Violet Lichen Books and Apex Book Company are delighted to announce the finalists for the inaugural ECO: The Year’s Best Speculative Ecofiction! Thank you to everyone who submitted and nominated stories this year. Check the post or keep reading for the full table of contents!
Featuring BrightFlame in this month's Indie Corner. We talk about their novel The Working: A modern coven must thwart a looming eco-cataclysm and find the key to the bright futures we need. dragonfly.eco/indie-corner...
Just in time for my birthday today, the NYT publishes my list of climate novels. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/b...
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Rewilding our Stories is a place for authors, artists, academics, gamers, scientists, and more; we explore #ecofiction in various media and get chatty with icebreakers, writing questions, monthly topics, solarpunk, sustainable publishing, a book club, events, etc. dragonfly.eco/rewilding-ou...
The garden is lookin' good! #gardening #NovaScotia
Our NATURE EDITION is here! Spilling over with lost forests, wild seas, wily animals, lunar yearnings, magic menageries, mischievous moths and, as always, plenty of superb poetry and flash fiction buff.ly/d5eaihT #shortstories #flashfiction #poetry #writing #nature #climate #ecofiction
#june14 #handsoff #NoKingsDay #Pinks “Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those my heroes.” ~ Fred Rogers ~
June's newsletter covers a few new #ecofiction novels and a long piece about the film #Sinners (with spoilers), probably now my favorite movie of all times. buttondown.com/dragonfly.ec... #blues #freedom
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem called Los Angeles a “city of criminals” and not a city of immigrants. But like its name, Los Angeles is a city of angels. We protect and look out for one another, especially the most vulnerable.
#ResistanceEarth #BlueEarth Today is World Ocean Day, an annual event to encourage everyone to protect our marine resources. This year’s theme is “Wonder: Sustaining What Sustains Us,” to foster deep appreciation of our oceans and spur meaningful action to ensure their health future. /1
#ecofiction #ecologicalfiction that inspires #action #booksworthreading
7 Indigenous Narratives That Reckon with the Past electricliterature.com/7-indigenous...
Sinners exploring the revolution of Black music is one of the greatest scenes in movie history.
At a time when people are understandably focused on the daily chaos in Washington, these articles describe the rapidly accelerating impact that AI is going to have on jobs, the economy, and how we live.
A quick interview on Dragonfly.eco with @dragonfly.eco about the Bright Green Futures anthology! dragonfly.eco/indie-corner...
I got my copy of the June/July issue of Gripped with my column in it earlier this week! The results of months of researching the history of fascism and anti-fascism in mountain literature, as I've continued to search for ways to support climbing storytelling as a literature of resistance.
Two new goodies today at Dragonfly. Solarpunk anthology, Bright Green Futures, and a middle-grade chapter book, Lissa Loves Bugs. dragonfly.eco/indie-corner... and dragonfly.eco/lissa-loves-.... Thanks to Susan Kaye Quinn and Tracy Blom.
The ancestors have welcomed Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, a titan of literature, countless are the number of readers his work inspired to become writers, his legacy will speak on across the generations.
More than a decade ago, the Elisipogtog Mi’kmaw Nation in New Brunswick fought back against fracking and won, resulting in a provincial ban on fracking in effect to this day. Those events and the aftermath are captured in a new doc called Feather Fall.
In #Vancouver you can find my books "Water Is..." and "A Diary in the Age of Water" at Banyen Books @banyen.bsky.social #bookstores #books ninamunteanu.me/2023/10/01/w...
A PRAYER FOR THE CROWN SHY x IF ON A WINTER’S NIGHT A TRAVELER A storyteller from the future weaves a wandering stranger (that’s you!) into an eco-anarchist solarpunk society. The secret to their vibrant community is simple, and hard. #WIPPit #Spec #LF #IndigenousFuturisms
Dragonfly's May's newsletter covering #ecofiction is out. buttondown.com/dragonfly.ec... In this issue, ChloroPhilia and interview with Cristina Jurado, the film 2073, and Clara Hume's Back to the Garden.
The cover for THE OTHER SHORE, my short fiction collection, forthcoming in October from @stelliform.press. Kerry Pagdin's art is so familiar-- like the kinds of dreams I had as a kid reading (and re-reading) Watership Down. Which is, of course, the landscape of my heart, and these stories.
Having experienced their Little Amal performance art to highlight the plight of refugees, the Herds project promises to offer a powerful opportunity for a profound shift in consciousness - one that the arts are uniquely capable of bringing forth. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Thanks to @dragonfly.eco for this interview! CHLOROPHILIA, published by @apexmag.bsky.social, is my eco-horror, weird and challenging novel, translated by the incredible @sueburke.bsky.social dragonfly.eco/spotlight-cr...
Few things beat receiving an author copy! My climate adaptation story touches on heritage, food and family. Alongside fab tales by @renanbernardo.com @daniellearostegui.bsky.social @brightflame.bsky.social @sarenaulibarri.bsky.social @tkrex.bsky.social, edited by: @susankayequinn.bsky.social
Ahh, once again, the annual convergence of AAPI Heritage Month and #mermay. Get your double dose of Pacific Islander storytelling and imaginative mermaids all at once. Right here:
My running playlist brought up Deer Dance today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xD2... #running #lift #systemofadown #protest
Green Fuse Burning is eco-horror at its best—grief-soaked, lichen-laced, & defiantly Mi’kmaw. A visceral meditation on loss, longing, & the ache to belong in a world that refuses to remember you. Ty @stelliform.press! Read my review ~ StoryGraph: tinyurl.com/2s4j36dr Goodreads: tinyurl.com/2s44th2e
It's Earth Day 🌍, and I'm happy to share this conversation I had with curator Mary Woodbury over at Dragonfly: An Exploration of Eco-Fiction, as part of a spotlight on the works of Hayao Miyazaki: dragonfly.eco/isaac-yuen-o... #earthday #ecofiction #hayaomiyazaki #ghibli #nausicaa #totoro #mononoke
Alberta First Nations issue cease and desist order against Danielle Smith's attempt to create a national unity crisis. Alberta is on treaty lands. Those treaties were signed 30 years before Alberta became a province.
Edmonton-West NDP Brooks Arcand-Paul has a message to Danielle Smith about separatism and treaty rights: www.reddit.com/r/FirstNatio...
Wilderness and nature is a big part of Dark Crescent, and luckily living in Scotland brings me all the inspiration 💚🏴
When the Tree Spirits find Sryad's Saddle #foraging #mushrooms #fungi #nature #NaturePhotography themeaningofwater.com/2023/05/28/w...
Happy birthday to Ella Fitzgerald, born this day in 1917. A voice like velvet and a life that refused to be boxed in. #OnThisDay #JazzLegend #EllaFitzgerald
#Earthday #earthdayiseveryday buttondown.com/dragonfly.ec... Celebrating Earth stories with Isaac Yuen (for the 3rd time!) as we explore the power of storytelling and Hayao Miyazaki's eco-films. Much more in this newsletter, including the new HAPPY LAND novel.
dragonfly.eco/isaac-yuen-o... Celebrating #Earthday early with Isaac Yuen as we discuss the commitment to and power of stories and the ecological works of Hayao Miyazaki.
Slew of NOAA websites set to go dark at midnight tonight due to a canceled cloud services contract. NOAA under pressure to cut its IT costs by 50%... www.axios.com/2025/04/04/n...
Are you a folklore enthusiast looking for your next read? Do you enjoy nautical horrors and nature being weird? 👀 Dark Crescent comes out in just 2 months, dark seasonal tales inspired by Scottish folklore...! With a beautiful cover by @jennicoutts.bsky.social✨ 🌙🌊 www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...
Finally got my own store up today for selling books. dragonflypub.ca. I've moved away from any distribution, because it goes thru Amazon. I'm only selling ebooks directly through the press now. #weird #nature #ecofiction
Love this game. Create a forest and put all the things in for it to regenerate.
PolyPine https://store.steampowered.com/app/2718240/
Dragonfly.eco has two indie corner interviews right now. The newest is with Katy Wimhurst: dragonfly.eco/indie-corner... The stories in the anthology An Orchid in my Belly Button savour the surreal, flirt with magical realism, and dabble with dystopia. #ecofiction #weird #magicalrealism
‘Many of the short stories in An Orchid in My Belly Button include #nature and the #environment as a theme.’ Thanks to @dragonfly.eco for interviewing me for the Indie Corner about my recent book An Orchid in my Belly Button by @elsewhen.press dragonfly.eco/indie-corner... #booksky #books
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Interview with Mary Woodbury of lovely dragonfly.eco about my novella with Stelliform Press, launching on Earth Day. #Stelliform #DarkFantasy #EcoFiction #RiverSpirits dragonfly.eco/indie-corner...
Every day on the internet makes it abundantly clear that some people have never had a single person turn around and say to them, ‘Cite your sources’ because, and I say this with every ounce of love I can muster as a teacher: while you are entitled to your opinion, that does not make it fact.
This week, @zoharjacobs.bsky.social explains how NASA's history with natural and technological disasters inspired her short story "On The Night Shift" in our March/April issue fromearthtothestars.com/2025/03/18/o...
A roundup of links about what's going on in US environmental politics, plus some stories about AI, plastic, and the obligatory notes of hope.
buttondown.com/dragonfly.ec... I talked with Aneesa Jamal, who developed a program for kids/teens to write about the climate/Earth and Lynn Hutchison Lee about her new fen-based novella. And more! buttondown.com/dragonfly.ec...
The submission period for Violet Lichen's ECO24 anthology closes in FOUR DAYS! ✨🌿🍄 Don't forget to submit previously published ecofiction at the links below before March 17th! 🌏 More Details: www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/frontp... 🌍 Submission Guidelines: apexbookcompany.moksha.io/publication/...
dragonfly.eco/aneesa-jamal... This month I talk with Aneesa Jamal, founder of Cogitation Club in India. The program allows climate- and Earth-based fiction to be written and illustrated by children and teens. What an amazing program! #ecofiction, #climate, #childrenslit, #picturebooks
So I have a new book out (yesterday). 🙂 My 8th book, 7th anthology. Happy book birthday to I and my amazing co-editors @alexisbrooksdevita.bsky.social & Joshua Ichor Which reminds me, I'm eligible for the Locus award, & Hugo, best editor short form with the Year's Best African SF volume 3 🙂
Fourth book published July 2022. At an isolated construction camp in northern Canada, there is jealousy, murder, intrigue, and a hint of the mythic supernatural. The diverse and wilful crew must unite to survive a flash forest fire and a rash of grisly deaths.
Delighted to be able to say that my book is now included on @dragonfly.eco's excellent website! 😀💚 dragonfly.eco/1059-nr-baker/
What a lovely moment to see "Storytelling towards solidarity: Creative, hopeful and inclusive climate change education" published as a special section in the first issue of Geographical Research for 2025 💚 🌍 ✊ 🌏 ⚖️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17455871...
I was honored to be interviewed by @dragonfly.eco who runs a wonderful eco-fiction community that I found refuge in during the pandemic. Make sure to give her newsletter a subscribe! And join the Rewilding Our Stories Discord.
Africanfuturism Beyond the Future - strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/...
buttondown.com/dragonfly.ec... The February newsletter covers #blackhistorymonth, including interviews at Dragonfly with #ecofiction & #bipoc authors. Also my first focus on #Appalachia with an interview with Nichole Amber Moss.
What if a hurricane hit Houston during the first crewed Mars mission? In the midst of a chaotic evacuation, a young flight controller meant to be working the night shift has to take charge. My novelette is in the March/April edition of @asimovssfmag.bsky.social, on sale now...
My chat with Nichole Amber Moss about #Appalachia, #storytelling and #nature: dragonfly.eco/nichole-ambe...
Book #4 - Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor - a first contact book like no other - compelling, poignant, action-packed, fun, weird, beautiful, and fable-like! 💙🌊
FREE Download of 4 gripping excerpts from the post-collapse series The Raincoast Saga. Three generations face the ordeals of a post-apocalyptic world. 📚 Readers reviews: "An exquisitely formed vision of a broken world." “Far and away the best of its genre.” books2read.com/u/3Req5Y
We're thrilled to announce the selection panel for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! The recipient of this year's award will be chosen by: Matt Bell Indra Das Kelly Link Sequoia Nagamatsu Rebecca Roanhorse www.ursulakleguin.com/prize25
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Through the Portal is "A stunning collection of short stories and poetry that address our most existential concerns"--Mary Woodbury, Dragonfly.eco #hopefuldystopia #ecofiction #shortstories #bookreview dragonfly.eco/through-the-...
People that make a difference in our lives cannot be cancelled. Celebrate Black History!
Ben Berman Ghan‘s bestselling novel The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits (Wolsak & Wynn) is one of the most exquisitely defiant stories I’ve ever read. The language is steel and silk. It’s sci fi and horror and poetry and magic realism and ecofiction and romance. newbooksnetwork.com/the-years-sh...
Another thing re antidotes... the people you love, who you value... be in the moment with them. Not distracted, not on your phone, but fully present. Open to them. So you can see them and be seen. This feels even more important right now.
With all the turmoil on social media these days, it can be hard for eco-friendly organizations to determine how to best leverage these platforms to drive positive environmental change. Here's our approach for 2025: go.eco/news/social-...
“This is the place of my song-dream, the place the music played to me,”whispered the Rat, as if in a trance. ~Kenneth Grahame The Wind in the Willows #bookologythursday
Just got back from the 1st Sharjah Festival of African Literature in the United Arab Emirates. It was an experience. Headlined by 2 Nobel Laureates, and featuring amazing writers, poets, artists, dancers, musicians, and more. Grateful I was part of it. Plus I got to see @nnedi.bsky.social again!
What goes around comes around? OpenAI, which trained its model on vast amounts of text that others had created, is now squealing about DeepSeek, which it says trained its model on OpenAI. www.ft.com/content/a0df...
BIG NEWS: Violet Lichen and Apex Book Company are launching a new annual anthology! 🥂📚🍄 ECO: The Year’s Best Speculative Eco-fiction, will showcase a collection of standout ecofiction published within the previous year. Story nominations open January 27th! Check the attached post for details!
Amazing. Love love love the references to Márquez.
Ah, Ursula, you were always the wisest person in the room. #ursulakleguin
For all my #BookSky friends that are trying to move away from the Bezos infrastructure, just a reminder that Goodreads is owned by him through Nash Holdings. Clicks are currency friends @thestorygraph.com is a Black Woman founded company www.womenwhocode.com/blog/world-b...
Don't miss Saturday's (1/25) LIVE HYBRID (virtual & in person) class on Writing Afrofuturism/Science Fiction. Also: Our books on writing A free 30-minute coaching call for the first 25 to register A spot in our new workshopping program Lifewriting Pro. Replay will be available! writerwebinar.com
My 3 favourite reads of 2024 ... #books #ecofiction #BooksToRead ninamunteanu.me/2024/12/22/b....
Reading Parable of the Talents now by Octavia E Butler. Found this passage relevant to our times. Actually this entire book is relevant to our dystopian reality. #booksky #booktok
Dragonfly's January newsletter is out, always free to read. Covering Metamorphosis with Grist, Leigh Ann Henion's Night Magic, and a flashback to #ecology in A Song of Fire and Ice. buttondown.com/dragonfly.ec...