Ecofictology

Hey ecofictologists! Welcome to episode 67 of the Ecofictology podcast. I really enjoyed my chat with DSG Burke, author of Mean Higher High Water, a dystopian speculative fiction novel that she was kind enough to send me. I hope you enjoy it too! You can find more about Deborah here: https://www.dsgburke.com/

Hey ecofictologists, welcome to episode 65 of the Ecofictology podcast. This week we are chatting with Midge Raymond and John Yunker from Ashland Creek press and we are talking about their new book Devils Island, which launched in September, published by OceanView Publishing. We cover their inspiration, the experience of co-writing with your spouse and using environment as atmosphere in your writi...

Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 64 of the Ecofictology podcast! This week we are talking to a younger audience with our guest, Angela Mills, the author of the beautifully illustrated book Bobby the Brown Long-eared bat. I came across Angela while listening to a panel talk that the Bat Conservation Trust was putting on along with other authors who wrote childrens books about bats. And th...

Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 63 of the Ecofictology podcast! This week I’m introducing you to Kaitlyn Elverson, the engagement officer for Bug Life in the UK, who I found through the talks she gave for Buglife on the folklore of insects and on myth and mystery of folklore in the history of wildflowers and trees. I was fascinated and excited as I always am to find someone who turns to...

Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 62 of the Ecofictology podcast! This week you are getting a twofer as my dad likes to call them. You’re getting a little bit of a book review and then right on its heels, an interview with the author, one that i was downright giddy to do. The book? A Murder of Crows, the first book in the Nell Ward Mystery series. The author? Sarah Yarwood lovett, an ecol...

Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 61 of the Ecofictology podcast! This episode was really just a giant brain dump of things that I had been thinking about, lots of ideas and mostly questions about how important is scientific accuracy in fiction. We’ve all had that experience where we read something outside of our field of expertise and think it’s really cool and well researched and then r...

Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 60 of the Ecofictology podcast! This week I am introducing you to a wonderful author, AE Copenhaver, who I had the great pleasure of talking to. This interview is a little different than others I have done because I wasn’t only interviewing her about her book, My Days of Dark Green Euphoria, which was published by Ashland Creek Press, you’ll recognise tha...

Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 59 of the Ecofictology podcast! This is the final part of our Spells and Specialists episode with mauricio garcia and i have thoroughly enjoyed learning about perfumes and smells and all the wondrous things that he has taught us in previous parts. This part 4 is where we brainstorm a story to communicate all that wondrousness to the world and i have to sa...

Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 58 of the Ecofictology podcast!  I’m sure you’ve been waiting for this part of our Spells and Specialists episode with Mauricio Garcia where we build a magic system based on the art of perfumery and our seed crystal of “magically infused perfumes can gently alter aspects of reality as well as creatures, minds and bodies”. What a cracker of a seed crystal!...

Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 57 of the Ecofictology podcast!  This is Part 2 of our spells and specialists episode with Mauricio Garcia, the perfumer and aromatherapist who blew our minds last week teaching us all the cool stuff. As a recap, our main messages from part 1 were that smell is form of pseudo psychic messaging, that industry and scent create global connections, and that t...

Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 56 of the Ecofictology podcast! It is that time again, we are in for another treat and honestly I am so excited about this guest. Say the name of the show, Lovis, say the name of the show! This is a Spells and specialists episode and our guest is Mauricio garcia who is a designer, perfumer and certified aromatherapist based in the San Francisco Bay Area....

Hey ecofictologists, welcome to the Ecofictology podcast, My name is Lovis and I am basically here to nerd out over the fiction that I read and write. On this podcast, we are going to talk all about this genre that I love called ecofiction and how it can be used as a science communication tool. What truly brings me here making a podcast is my love of reading and writing stories that capture some o...

Hey ecofictologists, welcome to episode 1 of the Ecofictology podcast, this week is all about giving you the ecofiction definitions that you need to understand what I’m talking about going forward but also to make you aware of some of the controversy i’ve come across with these terms, especially the term clifi. Categorisation is not without its dangers so i thought i’d discuss this with you all. T...

Hey ecofictologists, welcome to episode 2 of the Ecofictology podcast, this week is all about why we scientists find it difficult to communicate sometimes, we why need to do it anyway and how ecofiction can maybe help us with that. I come across this on a daily basis in my job as a researcher and i would love to see fiction and storytelling used more often as a tool to get our message and our pass...

Hey Ecofictologists, welcome to episode 3 of the Ecofictology podcast, this is the first of our Minisode Mondays which i do if there is any additional information I want you to have ahead of the longer episode on Wednesdays. My upcoming episode this Wednesday is with the wonderful John YUnker, co-founder of Ashland creek press, a vegan boutique publishing house that focuses on publishing stories a...

Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 4 of the Ecofictology podcast! This week I am interviewing John Yunker, the author of the Tourist Trail and the co-founder of Ashland Creek Press, a wonderful vegan boutique publishing press based in Oregon. If you missed this week’s Minisode where i shared my book review of The Tourist trail, then maybe listen to that episode first so you have all my tho...

Hey ecofictologists and welcome to Episode 5 of the Ecofictology podcast! This Minisode Monday is going to introduce you to a little project called Spells and Specialists that I’ve started with my good friend Clark Rowenson, otherwise known as the Magic Engineer over on his youtube channel, which I highly recommend you check out if you are at all interested in building magic systems. SPells and SP...

Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 6 of the Ecofictology podcast! This week kicks off the first of four parts of our SPells and SPecialists episode with Dr. Moiya McTier where we just absorb all the cool stuff she can teach us about the universe and let our brains explode so if you’ve ever wondered how stars are formed, how they die and what a supernova really is, just keep listening. It w...

Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 7 of the Ecofictology podcast! This week is Part 2 of our Spells and Specialists episode with Dr. Moiya McTier and we head over to Clark’s area of expertise and find what he calls a seed crystal, which is the little nugget of inspiration that we use to grow all of our ideas from for the magic system based on astrophysics which is coming next week in Part...

Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 8 of the Ecofictology podcast! This week is part 3 of our Spells and Specialists episode with Dr. Moiya McTier where we finally build a magic system based on our astrophysics seed crystal of everyone having little personal stars. I have to say, i’m obsessed with this seed crystal and with the magic system we created out of it so i hope you get as giddy as...

Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 9 of the Ecofictology podcast! This week is the final part of our Spells and Specialists episode with Dr. Moiya McTier and we brainstorm a story that communicates her wonderful science through the medium of the magic system that we created last week with Clark’s magic system blueprint. I love this story and actually as I am recording this intro, i am work...

Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 10 of the Ecofictology podcast! This Monday’s Minisode is one that I put together back in 2020, June 2020 to be exact, when i felt that anything else i had on my list of things to talk about felt out of place and tonedeaf considering everything that was happening around me and in the world. My platform was tiny and it’s still small now but I still wanted...

Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 11 of the Ecofictology podcast! This week I am introducing you to my good friend Forrest Brown who runs his own podcast called Stories for Earth and we overlap a lot in what we like to focus on so of course our paths crossed and I’m so glad that they did. We decided to do this episode together because...sigh...some books are too ....much to do on your own...

Hey ecofictologists and welcome to today’s Monday minisode which is a book review of Clade by James Bradley. This book really brings the climate crisis to your doorstep and lets you experience what it might feel like to live through the coming decades. It's so real and plausible that the story sucks you right in. This is an archived episode from my youtube channel so if you prefer the visual m...

Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 12 of the Ecofictology podcast! This week we are talking about something that comes up all the time in the ecofiction/climate fiction circles that I am involved in and it is of course ecogrief. There are many terms for it, climate anxiety, climate grief, eco aniety but whatever you want to call it, it is real and it can be debilitating and often we talk a...