"Eco-fiction for me is the deepest expression of this moral imperative–to present the natural world, this thing that has been cast as something so alien to us, as something worthy of empathy."
- Lynn Sargent on Ecofiction
https://www.briefecology.com/the-rotting-leaf/lynn-sargent-on-ecofiction
A wonderful little interview dropped yesterday from the British Columbia Review. If you loved Rebecca Campbell's ARBOREALITY and THE OTHER SHORE, you'll love this insight into her writing and its connection to the Cowichan Valley, BC. Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/72xiymP8M4c
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Shattered Ice is out today.
A YA environmental fantasy about northern ice, disrupted migration, water, wildlife, dragons, grief, courage, and hope.
It is written for young readers who know the future should not be negotiated without them — and for the parents, teachers, librarians, and climate-minded readers who still believe stories can help them face it.
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Happy book birthday to The Wildcraft Drones by T. K. Rex! A wildly imaginative solarpunk collection full to the brim with strange ecosystems, humor, grief, and radical hope for the future. Adored by Kim Stanley Robinson, Annalee Newitz and many more. Out now from Stelliform Press.
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I wrote Shattered Ice before the latest headlines about opening the Arctic to more oil development.
But that is exactly the point.
The future rarely arrives as fiction. It arrives as policy, profit, melting ice, disrupted migration, and people saying it is necessary.
Releases June 3.
RE: https://climatejustice.social/@briefecology/116544556582749554
Have you seen the houses growing in the forest? Have you looked inside them? Gaze into the unknown with this eerie piece of ecofiction from Tabitha Soper in The Rotting Leaf
“The first sign of growth was a lone shingle covered in pine needles on the forest floor.”
- From “Percentage, House” by Tabitha Soper in The Rotting Leaf
https://www.briefecology.com/the-rotting-leaf/percentage-house
I’m home recovering after a bug, post-finishing my doctorate, post-finishing-school-vacation-trip, and in that in‑between space where I’m figuring out how to bring my doctoral thesis into the world as a book while preparing to release the third ecofiction novel in my trilogy.
I’ll share the trilogy more on Instagram soon; but of course I’ll talk about it here too.
While I’m resting, I’ve been thinking about two things:
1. How to share what I’ve learned from writing visionary ecofiction; not as formal tutorials, but as small, generous micro‑snippets of thought.
2. How much I enjoy posting Three Good Things here on Mastodon.
This led me to realize that the micro‑tutorials can become Three Good Things. A small, informal, unstructured series about what I’ve learned so far.
Here we go.
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Three Good Things I’ve Learned About Writing Visionary Ecofiction
1. It brings community together; even when people disagree.
Across all three novels, I learned so much from people with different perspectives:
• fracking / hydraulic fracturing (Book 1)
• medical marijuana (Book 2)
• high‑speed rail (Book 3).
Ecofiction is a meeting place; not a consensus.
2. Writing is solitary; but you don’t have to be lonely in it.
Anything that helps you contextualize yourself in your larger community is healthy;
walks, cafés, writing groups, reading groups, sharing drafts.
People’s commentary is subjective but sharing your work is grounding.
Place yourself in your wider spheres; it helps.
3. Take joy in the finishing and sharing stages.
There’s real pleasure in thinking about the special parts of your process and how you want to share them.
I love outlining, first drafting, sculpting, revising, hearing the text read back to me, and working with an editor and designer, but also, imagining the visual vignettes that accompany the trilogy. I’m figuring out a visual narrative to share the trilogy on Instagram.
Finishing is its own creative act.
Working in a genre that’s still emerging (visionary ecology or visionary ecofiction) gives me freedom to genre‑bend fearlessly.
Book 1 is a love story (but not a romance).
Book 2 is a mystery (but not a cozy).
Book 3 is an adventure (but not Indiana Jones).
The elasticity is part of the joy.
These are my three good things today, the first in what I hope will become an informal series of micro‑tutorials on writing visionary ecofiction.
What lights are you up? When you write, how do you define yourself within your genre?
Keep writing and share!
PS, the photo was taken at Giverny, Monet’s Garden in France, on my recent trip.
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Stelliform authors are reading & loving T. K. Rex's THE WILDCRAFT DRONES! We've started to ship books out to folks who pre-ordered today. If you haven't put your order in there is still time to get your order in and receive it before the May 21 pub date! Get it from us or your fave indie bookstore!
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