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by Joanne O’Connell My debut novel, Beauty and the Bin was partly inspired by my food journalism, particularly by a column I wrote for the Guardian, about giving up supermarkets.    For twelve months, I whizzed nettles into pesto, baked my own bread, grew vegetables, and stocked up on everything from chilli flakes to tomato ketchup at my localContinue reading “Journalism inspiring Fiction”

Charlotte Mendel and Clyde Boyer talk about their time travel books. Charlotte and Clyde were introduced through the Climate Fiction Writer’s League and have since engaged in a series of climate conversations and mutual admiration sessions. Both authors used time travel as a lens to look at our current climate crisis, providing a realistic lookContinue reading “Using Fantasy to Confront Reality”

by A Connors Did you know that if you look at the Earth from directly over the Pacific, you hardly see any land. It’s pretty much all water. We live on an ocean planet. One of the marine biologists I spoke to while researching my book, The Girl Who Broke The Sea, had a niceContinue reading “Writing About Deep-sea mining (and other things)”

by Denise Baden At a session at COP27 with speculative fiction writer Andrew Dana Hudson on how fiction can help save the climate, I may have accidentally coined a term ‘social-science fiction’. Just as science fiction helps us to imagine the pros and cons of new technologies, social-science fiction can help us imagine how transformativeContinue reading “Social-science fiction or Thrutopia?”

Marjorie Kellogg (author of Glimmer) and Mary Woodbury, pen name Clara Hume (author of Bird Song: A Novella) compare their individual approaches to writing about climate and ecological changes. 1.      Future vs. Near future: When does ‘near’ become ‘far?’  How do the world-building challenges differ?  Marjorie: Far-future often extends into the infinite, as humanity isContinue reading “Eco-Fiction’s Broad Embrace”

by Charlotte Mendel Amitav Ghosh said that climate change was “a crisis of culture, and thus of imagination” and called for writers to play a greater role six years ago. So if you’re a writer who understands that we must transition away from fossil fuels this decade if we want to avoid catastrophe—then you startContinue reading “Plugging Readers into the Real-life Tsunami of Change”

Michael J. DeLuca talks to Catherine Rockwood Michael: Hi, I’m Michael J. DeLuca, publisher of Reckoning, the journal of creative writing on environmental justice. To celebrate the release of Our Beautiful Reward – Reckoning’s special issue on bodily autonomy – editor Catherine Rockwood agreed to talk to me about the issue. Catherine Rockwood (she/they) lives in Massachusetts with her family.Continue reading “Environmental Justice and Bodily Autonomy”

I write novels centered in the natural world in which the joint catastrophes of climate change and the nature crisis loom large – perfect, terrifying ingredients for post-apocalyptic and dystopian fiction. Which have always been my favourite type of stories. But because these things are not in the realm of fantasy, sometimes even I haveContinue reading “On hope and writing the future by Nicola Penfold”

Manda Scott talks to Michelle Cook Michelle Cook: Manda, I’m excited to meet you. I was wondering if Thrutopiawas something that you made up, because it isn’t a thing that I’d heard of before, even though I suspect I was writing around it. Manda Scott:Really good to meet, you, too. I loved Tipping Point—really impressedContinue reading “Creatives stitch Climate Solutions into Stories that Bring Everything Alive”