News and Events

The May newsletter is out! You’ll find extra news, such as book of the month, flashbacks, and extra commentary. Our old nature, ecology, and climate playlist was nearly a decade old and had almost 400 songs. In January 2025 is a new playlist. Learn more here. Want to support us? […]

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Rewilding our Stories (RoS) Discord

New: Join our 2025 book club! See details below about how to join the Discord and then check out the 2025 book club channel and our Storygraph challenge. Rewilding our Stories provides an inclusive, diverse, and safe space to explore the broad subjects of ecologically oriented fiction and creative nonfiction, […]

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Spotlight – Cristina Jurado

I had the great pleasure to talk with Cristina Jurado, author of several novels and collections. In this interview we’ll focus on her newest novella ChloroPhilia, translated by Sue Burke and published by Apex Book Company (May 18, 2025). About the Book Would you sacrifice your humanity to save the […]

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World Eco-fiction Series

Welcome to the World Eco-fiction Series: Climate Change and Beyond. This spotlight series travels the planet exploring fictional stories close to natural landscapes and wildlife, often with environmental concerns. If you like this series, check out our article at Medium, “Around the World in 80 Books: A Guide to Ecological […]

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Help Support Dragonfly.eco

Update: Dragonfly Pub’s ebook store is open! You can read about, buy, and download our ebooks directly. This site has always been ad-free, free to read, and freely supports authors and their books via interviews and promotions. I do this because I enjoy the field of eco-literature and want to […]

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It’s Not the End of the World, Jonathan Parks-Ramage

From Bloomsbury: Shot through with biting wit, brutal gore, primal sex, and unexpected catharsis, It’s Not the End of the World is a nerve-shredding roller coaster of a novel that will leave readers shocked, heartbroken, and inspired to question their most firmly held convictions. What happens when our current battles […]

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All the Water in the World, Eiren Caffall

In the tradition of Station Eleven, a literary thriller set partly on the roof of New York’s Museum of Natural History in a flooded future. Read more at Macmillan. “Gripping…tense, de­­­lightful and rich with resonance.” –Scientific American “Captivating…The setting, the detailed emotive descriptions, and nail-biting adventure are incandescent.” -Library Journal […]

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And So I Roar, Abi Daré

When Tia accidentally overhears a whispered conversation between her mother—terminally ill and lying in a hospital bed in Port Harcourt, Nigeria—and her aunt, the repercussions will send her on a desperate quest to uncover a secret her mother has been hiding for nearly two decades. “Within these pages there is […]

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Climate and Ecological Films

Eco-fiction isn’t limited to just the written word. It can include films and even games. Check back often, as I will update this post when new movies come out. This is just a sample listing, so if you think something should be included, please contact me. Most of these films […]

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Indie Corner – R.M. Tembreull

Welcome to R.M. Tembruell, who joins May’s Dragonfly’s Indie Corner. R.M. Tembreull is a devoted husband and proud father, a combat veteran with 26 years in the US Air Force, and an accomplished career professional in law enforcement, physical security, and antiterrorism. In his travels and endeavors, he has experienced […]

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Isaac Yuen (on Hayao Miyazaki) – Spotlight

Click here to return to the world eco-fiction series Earth Day 2025 I’m happy to reunite with a colleague from Vancouver days, Isaac Yuen, to celebrate Earth Day 2025. I first met Isaac nearly a decade ago when we participated in an Earth Day climate change and storytelling panel at […]

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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 […]

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Indie Corner – Katy Wimhurst

Katy Wimhurst has had three collections of short stories published—An Orchid in My Belly Button (Elsewhen Press, 2025), Snapshots of the Apocalypse (Fly on the Wall Press, 2022), and Let Them Float (Alien Buddha Press, 2023). Her first book of visual eco poems was Fifty-One Trillion Bits (Trickhouse Press, 2023). She sometimes interviews writers for 3AM Magazine. More […]

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Bright Green Futures: 2024, Susan Kaye Quinn

The Bright Green Futures: 2024 anthology, edited by Susan Kaye Quinn, is a collection of short solarpunk stories from guests of the Bright Green Futures podcast, where we lift up stories to build a better world. These hopeful climate-fiction stories include clicky space centipedes, sentient trees, a flooded future Rio […]

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