April 19 - 24, 2021 - Earth Week - Research Guides at St. Catherine University

Fiction & Poetry

Forest 404
Set in the 24th Century in a world where forests have been erased from history, Forest 404 is an immersive sci-fi environmental thriller.
Future Ecologies
Made for audiophiles and nature lovers alike, every episode is an invitation to see your world in a new light – set to original music & immersive soundscapes, and weaving together interviews with expert knowledge holders.
No Place Green Enough
A storytelling podcast that strives to shed light on major global issues related to climate, gender, health, environment & development.

Beasts of the Southern Wild
Hushpuppy is a six-year-old living in an isolated bayou community. When her father Wink becomes ill, she sets off for the outside world in an attempt to help him. The journey to save her father is delayed by a 'busted' universe that reverses weather patterns and brings about long-extinct animals. Can Hushpuppy save the day?
WALL-E
After hundreds of lonely years, a waste management robot finds a new purpose in life. With only a cockroach for a friend, he finds true love in another robot sent on a mission to Earth to see if it is safe for human life.
Whale Rider
The Whangara people believe their ancestor Paikea was saved from drowning by riding home on the back of a whale. The tribal group has since granted leadership positions to the first-born males, believing them to be descendants of Paikea. But then a young mother dies in childbirth along with her newborn male son. His twin sister survives and the little girl, Pai, is brought up by her grandparents. Learning the skills of chiefdom from her uncle, Pai shows that she possesses a natural leadership ability.

dragonfly.eco
A place to find meaningful stories about our natural world and humanity’s connection with it. The site explores the wild, crazy, and breathtaking literary trail of eco-fiction, with a large book database, spotlights, interviews, and more.
Imagination and Climate Futures Initiative (Arizona State University)
The Imagination and Climate Futures Initiative will explore how imagination—or lack thereof—shapes humanity’s response to climate change and how imagination merged with science can create solutions to climate challenges.
The Dark Mountain Project
A network of writers, artists and thinkers who have stopped believing the stories our civilisation tells itself. They produce and seek out writing, art and culture rooted in place, time and nature.
Ecofictology with Lovis Geier
Youtube video reviews about the study of eco-fiction, where ecology and fiction meet to create something beautiful. New conversations every Wednesday!
EcoLit Books
EcoLit Books is an independent blog devoted to books—fiction and nonfiction—with environmental themes.

The Hopper
An environmental literary magazine publishing poetry, fiction, nonfiction, visual art, interviews, and book reviews, all of which are paths towards an invigorated understanding of nature's place in human life.
Reckoning
A nonprofit, annual journal of creative writing on environmental justice.
Dark Matter: Women Witnessing
Dark Matter publishes writing and artwork created in response to an age of massive species loss and ecological collapse.
Poecology
An online literary journal and resource for contemporary writing about place, ecology, and the environment. Publishes poetry, fiction, and nonfiction that focuses on human responses to ecological and place-based themes from various perspectives and aesthetics.
Flyway
An online journal publishing poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and visual art that explores the many complicated facets of the word environment – at once rural, urban, and suburban – and its social and political implications.
saltfront
An environmental humanities literary and art journal priming society for a radically new type of ecological storytelling. Searching for the newest and most vibrant eco-lyrical expressions, new ways to tell stories of what it means to be human amidst the monumental ecological transformations taking place on this planet.