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Mary Woodbury (pen, Clara Hume) | Publisher | Writes #speculative fiction | Curates Dragonfly.eco | Manages translations | Born in Kentucky | Lives in Nova Scotia | See dragonflypub.ca for my books #ecofiction #climate #nature #appalachia
Hope to see #DMV fans of #antarctica #scifi and #solarpunk 03/24 for a reading and discussion of #IcesEndNovel - will be worth the wait! @georgetownclimate.bsky.social @georgetownlaw.bsky.social
It is a year since An Orchid in My Belly Button, a magical realism/eco fiction collection of stories, pwas published by @elsewhen.press
Thanks to all who have bought and/or read it.
If anyone else is interested-
elsewhen.press/index.php/ca...
Watched this earlier. Fantastic talk.
Screen capture of the background of a Zoom webinar announcing: Welcome to our webinar! Afrofuturism @ birds. Pictures of four people in circles, a drawing of a swing mounted in a tree
Lunch break with this cool webinar! #Afrofuturism & Birds 🦅🪶
What we're reading this month—featuring gorgeous prose that weaves personal stories of loss and recovery with environmental themes.
Amid the whitewashing of our society, take the winter aurora’s silent-but-loud lesson: in a quiet world of white and grey, scream in pink.
New weekly poem and post up on my blog ⬇️
#poetry #poem #writing #nature #naturewriting #naturepoetry #resistance
entangled-worlds.ghost.io/field-notes-...
The Rewilding our Stories Discord's book club is reading Robert Macfarlane's Is a River Alive?, and we're in love. www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-a...
Women with flowers and vines growing from her body and hair closes her eyes while in a whirl of water
I forgot to add the cover of my novel-in-progress (also in the newsletter) at buttondown.com/dragonfly.ec...
Young woman walking through apocalyptic landscape
Two teens in front of a "brink box", which they use to travel through time to save extinct elephants
Mangroves and brightly colored pink flowers rising from the Amazon River
Summoning Eddie Vedder's "Rise", I find my direction magnetically as I migrate through weird times. Dragonfly.eco's February newsletter has three author spotlights, 10K training, and more. #ecofiction #running #wild #migrating. buttondown.com/dragonfly.ec...
dragonfly.eco/mona-shomali... After taking January off, I return to the world #ecofiction series this month. We travel to the Amazon by exploring Mona Shomali's new novel Water Mamas. Check out our conversation. #Indigenous #consent #rainforest #climate
Reminding myself of the best post I read from one year ago.
This means four years of loving, supportive, rebellious, intense, encouraging, and brilliant ART.
Create like our lives depend on it. They do.
Working with Marissa and Violet Lichen / Apex Books was a delight and my only regret is I don't have anything for this one. But you can! 🌏
It’s my hand holding a physical copy of my first book, The Wildcraft Drones. The cover has a flying tentacle robot hovering in a deep forest and also my name on it, and there’s a whole box of them. And also a box and some packing material.
Advance reader copies arrived in the mail today from @stelliform.press 🥹
Rewilding concept by Splash Images: seeds, roots, leaves, bulbs
I skipped January's newsletter so I could work on an article about solarpunk, coming this spring for an ecology magazine. I'll resume newsletters in February. You can read all the archives here: buttondown.com/dragonfly.ec... #ecofiction #rewilding #stories #nature #climate
#Minneapolis
📣 It's here: the 2026 @strangehorizons.bsky.social Criticism Special!
💡 A whole week of critical insight, with a new essay and new review every day. A podcast, a roundtable, an *editorial*.
📚 The weird! Anthropology! Non-anglophone SFF! Plus thoughts on fantasy series, adaptations, film and more.
Fun bluesky fact is that no matter what else is going on, someone is always reading Moby Dick
So happy this book is out today!
Cover is a stylised and colourful forest by night, with title text in yellow.
Currently reading and excited for this, out tomorrow:
Forest Imaginaries: How African Novels Think x Dr Ainehi Edoro, from Columbia University Press
Forty years ago, we observed Martin Luther King Jr. Day for the first time. Today, we continue to honor Dr. King's pervasive moral clarity and maintain his fight "to make real the promise of democracy.”
Hands holding a black cover with a flower growing wildly, stemming to several directions. The petal is full and resembles smoke at some points. It's called ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction. Edited by Marissa Van Uden.
One of the anthology pages with the initial text for the story The Plasticity of Being by Renan Bernardo. It also includes his bio.
I got my contributor copy of ECO24, which contains my piece The Plasticity of Being!
I’m extremely honored to be part of this antho with @anovelescape.bsky.social, @genni.bsky.social, @jenniferhudak.bsky.social and others!
It was edited by the great @marissavu.bsky.social.
Post from Amanda Gorman’s Instagram that says amandascgorman Minneapolis, Minnesota For Renee Nicole Good Killed by ICE. on January 7, 2026 by Amanda Gorman They say she is no more, That there her absence roars, Blood-blown like a rose. Iced wheels flinched & froze. Now, bare riot of candles, Dark fury of flowers, Pure howling of hymns. If for us she arose, Somewhere, in the pitched deep of our grief, Crouches our power, The howl where we begin, Straining upon the edge of the crooked crater Of the worst of what we've been. Change is only possible, & all the greater, When the labour & bitter anger of our neighbors Is moved by the love * better angels of our nature.
Amanda Gorman wrote this poem for Renee Good and that’s it for me tonight.
2026 Fiction Submissions Strange Horizons January 19 to 21
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.
Love this
The Ballad of Lake Louisa: They say that all the evil spirits were placed in Lake Louisa down down down deep in the flooded caves where they could not come out again Unless Unless Lake Louisa was ever drained then they would all be released to the world to wreak their havoc. There are those who came who did not believe in stories and they tried to drain Lake Louisa to line their silken pockets.
Even as the water barely receded there rose a great cry from all the people who believed in stories and they wreaked such havoc on the greedy. Oh such good trouble they made, I tell you. And in the deep deep deep caves beneath the draining lake their voices echoed and rebounded a thousand fold so that there rose a mighty roar from the depths of the land that called to others to come
come believe in stories come believe in the ballad of lake Louisa and realize it is ours as well should we choose to sing it.
A glittering swampy lake sits in the middle of an enclosed space lined with trees. A blisteringly blue sky shines above, reflecting in the pool.
🎶 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
