Community Garden
“Eco-fiction, memoir, and a variety of non-fiction presentations”
To celebrate 100,000 Poets (Authors and Artists too) for Change, we are hosting an Eco-fiction stage at Word Vancouver. Find us at the Community Garden tent on Homer Street, September 25th, from 11:00 – 12:30 p.m.
We’re excited to announce the following readers:- Claudie Casper, reading from The Mercy Journals
- Stephen Collis, reading from Once in Blockadia
- Michael Donoghue reading from Winds of Change
- Clara Hume, reading from Back to the Garden
- Anneliese Schultz, reading from the short story “Water and Oil”
- Katie Welch, reading from The Bears
In an age where climate change,
excessive resource extraction, water worries, and other ecological
crises have given us a bleak outlook for our future, the arts can help
humanity cope while imagining a better future. As curator of
Eco‐fiction.com, which has a database of hundreds of environmental
novels and other books, I see a great movement of fiction writers,
poets, and other artists building our story through the lens of hope and
warning as we celebrate nature and develop scenarios, characters, and
plots to overcome the systemic issues that have led our world to an
environmental crisis.
Carl Sagan said, “Imagination will often
carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere.”
Writers are key to combining scientific data with imagination to provide
readers with powerful stories, which may enhance understanding of the
world, inspire people to act, and entertain readers with scenes so
unforgettable that they may be retained in the mind throughout one’s
lifetime.
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