Ecofictology

Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 13 of the Ecofictology podcast! This Monday minisode is a little book review of a gorgeous novella by Octavia Cade called the Impossible Resurrection of Grief and I wanted to give you this short one so that you’re prepared for the Wednesday episode which is an interview with Octavia and I am joined by my good friend Forrest Brown who you all met last week...

Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 14 of the Ecofictology podcast! Following on from the book review that you got on Monday, here is the interview with the wonderful Octavia cade all about her novella The Impossible Resurrection of Grief, which touches on these concepts of ecogrief and ecoanxiety in a terrifying magical realism kind of way. I so much enjoyed talking to her with my cohost F...

Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 15 of the Ecofictology podcast! This week we are doing a bit more of a definitions episode and talking about all the various -opias that we come across in ecofiction. Dystopia and Utopia are the most well known and there is a lot of controversy about how much of either of them we need, but then there are some less well-known ones in there like ustopia coi...

Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 16 of the Ecofictology podcast! We are back with another Spells and Specialist month of episodes, this time with the wonderful Corri Moss-Hunter who is going to teach us everything about therapy, functional behaviours and something called Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy which blew my mind. Of course I have my wonderful cohost...

Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 17 of the Ecofictology podcast! We are continuing our Spells and Specialists episode with Corri moss hunter today and finding out what kind of seed crystal would work best to build a magic system teaching you all about therapy and functional behaviours which we learned about last week. It’s really interesting to see how this process is different for every...

Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 18 of the Ecofictology podcast! We are finally at the point in our Spells and Specialists episode with Corri Moss Hunter where we can build out our magic system using Clark’s Magic system blueprint. I love these episodes, this is a great tool and it’s cool to see how flexible it is and how much you can learn about your magic system. In our case, our seed...

Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 19 of the Ecofictology podcast! This is the final part of our Spells and Specialists episode with Corri Moss-hunter and we have created such a cool magic system so now it’s time to brainstorm a story that will communicate all that goodness to the world. Think we can do it? I do too. Of course i am joined by my wonderful cohost Clark Rowenson, the magic en...

Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 20 of the Ecofictology podcast! This Minisode Monday i’m just really going to be gushing about my experience being a judge for the extinction rebellion wordsmiths solarpunk writing contest in 2022. This was an honour for me to be a part of and honestly it really gave me so much hope and so many energy pennies. It was a wonderful experience and actually I...

Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 21 of the Ecofictology podcast! This week, I am SO excited to introduce you to Aël who was one of the winners of the teenage category in the Extinction Rebellion Wordsmiths Solarpunk Storytelling Showcase short story writing competition 2022! His story "The Old Man and the Bird" is published on the XR wordsmiths website so you can check that out...

Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 22 of the Ecofictology podcast! This week I am sharing a truly inspiring interview I did with Katrina Eilender, another winner of the teenage category from the XR wordsmiths solarpunk storytelling showcase short story writing competition 2022! I have to say, I was so impressed when speaking with her, she has such passion when she talks about the climate c...

Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 23 of the Ecofictology podcast! This is third and last interview with the teenage winners of the XR wordsmiths solarpunk storytelling showcase 2022, a short story writing competition that I was a judge for. This week I am talking with Reb about their story Blood Oil, I really enjoyed this chat, they had such great insights into what the ideal future looks...

Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 24 of the Ecofictology podcast! Happy Minisode Monday, today I am sharing with you my thoughts on the book The Best Part of Us by Sally Cole-Misch. I thought this was an interesting book to feature as ecofiction because depending on your definition, this may or may not be on your radar. It is a book with a strong sense of place and appreciation for nature...

Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 25 of the Ecofictology podcast! This week I am welcoming a very special guest, Sally Cole-Misch, the author of "The Best Part of Us", which I reviewed in this Monday’s minisode! If you missed the review, have a look at that. It was so much fun talking with Sally, I feel so lucky to have gotten the opportunity to connect with her. I think we had...

Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 26 of the Ecofictology podcast! It's time for another month of Spells and Specialists episodes! I love doing these, they are so much fun! And this time, Navarre Bartz talks to us all about energy materials, batteries and what it all has to do with solar panels and renewable energies. I learned a TON! Of course, I am joined by my wonderful cohost Clark...

Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 27 of the Ecofictology podcast! The conversation with Navarre Bartz continues in this video of Spells & Specialists. It's time to take what we learned in part one and find our magic-system seed crystal. We had to approach things a little different this time around, but we sure ended up with a good one! This episode is led by my cohost Clark Rowens...

Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 28 of the Ecofictology podcast! This week we take our awesome seed crystal from the last Spells & Specialist video with Navarre Bartz and put it through Clark’s Magic system Blueprint! This blueprint is so much fun to play with, we always end up with something unique and intricate, and this time we ended up with a system that can explain both the old...

Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 29 of the Ecofictology podcast! This is the final part of our Spells and Specialists episode with Navarre Bartz where we brainstorm a story to communicate all about energy materials, solar panels and how electrodes work using the magic system we created in Part 3. If you missed that, i highly recommend going back and listening to it, its a treat! I love P...

Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 30 of the Ecofictology podcast! This week I am so excited to talk to Mary Woodbury from dragonfly.eco which is an absolutely wonderful resource for anyone wanting to learn a bit more about ecofiction, get some recommendations, keep on top of news etc, Mary has published "Birdsong: a Novella" under the pen name Clara Hume and has several other ti...

Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 31 of the Ecofictology podcast! For the next couple of episodes, I wanted to dedicate time to exploring the power of storytelling in conservation and the representation of conservation in ecofiction. This is something that is very close to my heart and something I would love to see get more attention in the genre! I approach my research from a conservatio...

Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 32 of the Ecofictology podcast! This week I am very pleased to introduce you to Francesca Trotman from Love the Oceans, a marine conservation organisation operating out of Mozambique. If you’ve been around my youtube channel at all you’ve probably heard the name several times because this was the organisation that I donated a portion of my patreon earning...

Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 33 of the Ecofictology podcast! Today I am delighted to introduce you to a very good friend of mine, Sally Snow, one of the executive directors of the Large Marine Vertebrates Research Institute Philippines, affectionately shortened to Lamave. She is a zoologist and filmmaker with a passion for conservation filmmaking and telling stories from local perspe...

Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 34 of the Ecofictology podcast! This Minisode monday I am reviewing My Last Continent by Midge Raymond, the co-founder of Ashland Creek Press which I've mentioned before on this podcast. This book has everything, it has penguins, ecologists, the Antarctic, impending doom and a romance. What more could you want? I loved it and I am sharing this short e...

Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 35 of the Ecofictology podcast! This week I welcome Midge Raymond onto the show as we talk about her beautiful novel My Last Continent. I reviewed this book on Monday so check that out! We talk about publishing ecofiction, taking inspiration for stories from the world around us and using ecofiction and storytelling as a form of communication to reach peop...

Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 36 of the Ecofictology podcast! It’s time for another series of Spells and Specialists episodes with my wonderful cohost Clark Rowenson, the magic engineer, and this time we are welcoming a particularly special guest, Rachel Rowenson who happens to be Clark’s wife and has been watching our storytelling shenanigans and wanted to get involved. She is a syst...

Hey ecofictologists and welcome to episode 37 of the Ecofictology podcast! It’s time for part 2 of our spells and specialists episode with Rachel Rowenson, a systems scientist. Last time we learned about system sciences and now it's time to find the seed crystal for our upcoming magic system. I love seeing how people approach this method differently, Rachel is very driven by theme so Clark can...