A growing list of our stories

We’ve started a new list of books, films, and more at the Discord, all written from our own members. See #our-stories at the Discord. One of our members, Navarre, also added these to a list at Open Library.

Discord – 2023 January self-promo

Sara Davis’s Climate roundups are always interesting. This month is Stop trying to make climate denial happen. Check out the Beyond Cataclysm podcast, where Rachel Rosen talks about Nalo Hopkinson’s Brown Girl in the Ring. Bright Flame and Sarena Ullibari have stories in the beautiful Optopia Issue #5, The Mushroom Issue. Jack Waro has part …

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Art show | The Overstory by Richard Powers

Including a handmade scroll by Diane Samuels Oct 14, 2022 – Jan 30, 2023 Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University Diane Samuels’ incredible 20″ x 160′ scroll is a hand-transcription in micro-script of Richard Powers’ The Overstory. The text side is made of strips of recycled drawings, prints, and papers from the artist’s studio. The dimensions of …

Events

Events 100,000 Poets for Change: Annual event involving poets, musicians, and artists around the world in a demonstration/celebration to promote peace and sustainability and to call for serious social, environmental and political change. ARTCOP21: In a multidisciplinary and innovative spirit, COAL mobilizes artists and cultural actors on social and environmental issues and supports the creation …

Eco-games

Thanks to so many wonderful game suggestions (primarily video games, but not all) from the Rewilding Our Stories community, we have a new eco-gaming section here at Dragonfly. While some games lean toward environmental lessons and strategize ways to reconstruct ecological systems, others beautifully immerse the player into an explorative world where nature and wilderness …

What we’re reading

In 2021, Ecofictology’s Lovis Geier and I decided to start a Discord community titled Rewilding Our Stories. We wanted a discussion community to serve academics, journalists, scientists, publishers, authors, artists, musicians, game designers, readers, and others interested in the “mama genre” of eco-fiction. This category of literature covers stories in which nature, the environment, and …