Strange Horizons will be open to general fiction submissions for 48 hours beginning January 19th, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC and ending January 21st, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC. There will be no cap. See our fiction submission guidelines for more information on how to submit: strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...

This month's world #ecofiction spotlight focuses on authors around the globe from our very own Rewilding our Stories Discord! dragonfly.eco/rewilding-ou... You'll find novels and an anthology written by amazing creatives. I'll add the Discord link in the comments.

Happy New Story Sunday! This week, we have a mythic masterpiece with roots in all sorts of places by the Canadian science fiction writer, poet, playwright, and folklorist Ceallaigh S. MacCath-Moran (@csmaccath.com). This story rocks.

In other energy-related news, reading Waubgeshig Rice's novel Moon of the Turning Leaves seems to have caused the first-year students to think quite a bit about electricity and how vulnerable we all are to potential outages and its loss. For some, it was also their favourite book on the course.

🎶 Come listen to the ballad of Lake Louisa. Learn about the *very real* backstory to this poem by jumping over to my free Ghost newsletter: entangled-worlds.ghost.io/field-notes-... #nature #naturewriting #poetry #naturepoetry #Appalachia #hopepunk #solarpunk

New author interview up on the Patreon today! We spoke to Lyndsey Croal @lyndseycroal.bsky.social, author of the excellent short story collection "Dark Crescent" We talk about Scottish folklore, eco-fiction, malevolent sea blobs and Lyndsey gives us her essential folklore reading recommendations!

ecologyaction.ca/sites/defaul... I was thrilled to work as an editor for the fall issue of Ecology & Action Magazine, particularly on writer Bianca Marzan's piece on EAC's pop-up bike hub. The entire magazine is beautiful and worth the read! #biking #diy #ecology

Just interviewed author and wildlife biologist Michelle (ME) Schuman. She's got an amazing life story. I'm just starting on her memoir and love it. dragonfly.eco/indie-corner... #wildlife #Alaska #biologist #wetlands

All the climate-related links I've been bookmarking for the last few months, including climate impacts, what the White House is up to, and some good news.

Kids find ways to rebel against corporate control in a fun tech dystopia. #hopepit #YA #P If you like my #ecofiction Weird Fishes or my #IndigenousFuturism short stories in @khoreo.bsky.social and @grist.org (and soon @solarpunklitmag.bsky.social!) see how it all started books2read.com/b/bpJdnq

Visit THE MANGROVE DAUGHTERS — Where the trees are always waiting to welcome you home! 🌿🌊 We're thrilled to feature @emlinden.bsky.social's short ecofiction "Mangrove Daughter" in ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION, out November 18th!

It's saw-whet migration season. 🦉 😎🦉 Allons-y. New post + poem up on my free Ghost newsletter: entangled-worlds.ghost.io/field-notes-... #nature #naturewriting #poetry #naturepoetry #Appalachia #hopepunk #solarpunk

The October newsletter is out. "Action is the antidote to despair.” -Joan Baez. buttondown.com/dragonfly.ec... Covering music and literature that inspire us rather than us drowning in despair. #ecofiction

An absurdist theater artist prepares New Yorkers for climate disasters. "Sometimes a one-page pamphlet translated into two languages isn’t the best way for people to receive information, but a song about go-bags played on the synth is." grist.org/culture/an-a... #NY #NewYork #Art #Artist #Climate

It's pub day for THE OTHER SHORE, Ursula K. Le Guin winner Rebecca Campbell's ARBOREALITY follow-up and debut collection. In 10 stories set in dark west coast forests and their ruins, this book is exquisite literary spec fic perfect for spooky season. It got a PW star! www.stelliform.press...

There's an explosion of -punk genres being co-created in writing & other media. 🌞 We're here to elevate those under the #hopepunk ⛱️, like ecopunk, solarpunk, ecofiction, + everything that gives us something to work TOWARD! 🌱 What are your thoughts? Please share links & ideas! #hopecore #writesky

Check out my interview on fellow SF Canada writer Simon Rose's site about "Through the Portal" anthology I co-edited with Lynn Hutchinson Lee @lynnhutchinsonlee.bsky.social #anthology #ecofiction #interview simon-rose.com/nina-muntean...

In just a few weeks, I'll be at the World Fantasy Convention! If you'll be there too, here's where you can find me. #STORYTELLERSGUIDETOFOLKLORE #SerendipityLiteraryAgency

. Schools urged to use creative works to tackle climate change We need to take urgent #ClimateAction right now to avoid the worst of Climate Change! Find out more: www.standardmedia.co.ke/amp... .

Great speaking with @dragonfly.eco about the historical and current events that inspired #IcesEndNovel - and read to the end to learn the very unglamorous place where I do a good chunk of my writing. #lawyerswhowrite #antarctica #scifi #clifi #solarpunk. dragonfly.eco/p-finian-rei...

Just watched Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery, which took me back to the 1990s and all those wonderful women artists gem.cbc.ca/lilith-fair-.... We need this music, these voices, more than ever. As Sinéad O'Connor said, "How about I be me, and you be you". #lilithfair #women.

Ripple: An Intimate Exchange of Urgency and Hope Between An Ecologist Dad and His Daughter is a narrative of letters from an ecologist dad to his daughter upon her coming-of age. Together they envision a path for humanity’s reintegration with nature. Comes out Oct. 21 🌿 #deepecology #climateweek

A Hunger with No Name has been out in the world for a year! I'm still in love with this story of hope in the high desert, dealing w so many things we’re grappling w now. Like, follow, share for your chance to win the book in the format of your choice (internat'l e-book only) #giveaway

Dragonfly's September newsletter is out! In this issue, interviews with Anh Do (Wolf Girl) and Jessica Mann (Uplift), and much more, including garden talk and harvesting! #ecofiction #wild #novels buttondown.com/dragonfly.ec... #ecofiction #reading #wild #harvests #apples #shuckybeans #gardening

Annual Terry Fox run across Canada today, from coast to coast to coast. #TerryFoxRun #Canada 🍁 Link: terryfox.org/terry-fox-run/

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 [email protected] is SEPTEMBER 25TH @ midnight!

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.

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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

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...

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...

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