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Bright Green Futures PodcastEp. 32: Climate Connections with Danielle ArosteguiIn this episode, I chat with author Danielle Arostegui about her story in the Bright Green Futures anthology, why she picked Climate Connections as a theme, and her very cool giveaway item.LINKS Ep. 32: Climate Connections with Danielle Arostegui* Bright Green Futures: 2024 Anthology* Anthology Giveaway* Bright Green Futures zines* Strong Towns* Asheville For All* Danielle’s story (FREE until 5.13.2025): A Merger in Corn CountryRELEVANT NEWSLETTERS* Ep. 27: Zines, Cultural Change and Storytelling in the Underground* Ep. 28: Climate Anxiety with Re...2025-05-0519 min
Bright Green Futures PodcastEp. 31: Climate Roles with T. K. RexIn this episode, I chat with author T. K. Rex about her story in the Bright Green Futures anthology, why she picked Climate Roles as a theme, and her amazing art giveaway item.LINKS Ep. 31: Climate Roles with T. K. Rex* Bright Green Futures: 2024 Anthology* Anthology Giveaway* Bright Green Futures zines* T. K.’s collection coming in 2026 from Stelliform Press: Wildcraft Drones* T. K.’s story (FREE until 5.6.2025): Centipede Station(transcript available on substack)Bright Green Futures is a newsletter/podcast and lifts up s...2025-04-2830 min
GrottoPodDespair is a Luxury with Nina Schuyler and Susan Kaye QuinnNina Schuyler, Susan Kaye Quinn, Doug Henderson and T. K. Rex discuss writing climate fiction and one central theme: hope. How to have it, how to write it, and why it’s more important than ever.Nina Schuyler’s short story collection, In This Ravishing World, won the W.S. Porter Prize and the Prism Prize for Climate Literature and was published in July 2024. Her novel, Afterword, won the 2024 PenCraft Book of the Year in Fiction, the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award for Science Fiction and Literary, and the PenCraft Spring Seasonal Book Aw...2025-02-151h 12
Future Mending RadioStop Imagining the ApocalypseIf we want a better future, we need to stop imagining the apocalypse and start imagining winning. Solarpunk is an emergent science fiction genre and social movement that asks us to do just that.Matt sits down with podcaster and solarpunk author Susan Kaye Quinn to discuss utopia, dystopia and everything in-between. The episode includes a reading from T.K. Rex's story A Holdout in the Northern California Designated Wildcraft Zone and a vision of what Toronto might look like in 2060 if we built better housing and transportation options starting today.Susan's Website: https://susankayequinn...2025-01-1538 min
Bright Green Futures PodcastEp. 6: Exploring Grief in Climate Fiction with Author Renan BernardoHello friends! In this episode, I chat with Renan Bernardo about how grief weaves through many of his stories, but that, for him, writing solarpunk means bringing readers from those dark depths to a brighter place.LINKS Ep. 6: Exploring Grief in Climate Ficiton with Author Renan Bernardo* Virtual Author Panel on Hopepunk (Susan Kaye Quinn, T.K. Rex, Renan Bernardo, Brianna Castognozzi, Watertown Library, Jan 2023)* A Short Biography of a Conscious Chair by Renan Bernardo (Samovar Magazine, February 2023)* A Shoreline of Oil and Infinity by Renan Bernardo (Escape Pod #863)...2024-05-0345 min
Bright Green Futures PodcastEp. 2: Chatting with Dolphins (and Author T. K. Rex)Hello Friends! In this episode, I chat with author T.K. Rex about her solarpunk stories, including one where we’re talking to dolphins! We discuss how communicating with the non-human can open up our perspective about the changing climate and how the interface between ourselves and nature (and technology) needs to change. LINKS Ep. 2: Chatting with Dolphins (and author T.K. Rex)* A Lot Full of Weeds by T.K. Rex* Squawker and Dolphin Swimming Together by T.K. Rex(transcript available on substack) Bright Green Futures is a we...2024-03-2849 min
Bright Green Futures PodcastEp. 1: Stories to Build a Better WorldHello Friends! Bright Green Futures lifts up stories about a more sustainable and just world and to talk about the struggle to get there. In the first episode, I talk about why we even need a podcast/newsletter like this. Why new stories are key to building a better world.LINKS Ep. 1: Stories to Build a Better World* Seven Sisters by Susan Kaye Quinn (also in German)* Holdout in the Northern California Designated Wildcraft Zone by T.K. Rex* Metamorphosis collection (preorder from Milkweed Editions)SUBSCRIBE TO WIN STICKERS2024-03-2016 min
Shining Moon: A Speculative Fiction PodcastShining Moon Episode 22: Environmental Fiction, Cli-Fi, and SolarpunkHello, and welcome to Shining Moon Episode 22. Today we’ll be talking about environmental science fiction, cli-fi, solarpunk, and maybe even hopepunk. My guests today are Renan Bernado, Cecile Cristofari, and Susan Kaye Quinn. Stories featured in this episode:Renan Berando:"A Shoreline of Oil and Infinity," Escape Pod #863, https://escapepod.org/2022/11/17/escape-pod-863-a-shoreline-of-oil-and-infinity/ "Eight Steps to Steal a Yacht and Build a Hospital: Solarpunk Magazine issue #8.Cecile Cristofari:'Que la grenade est touchante' (Lackington's, Issue 24 (Fall 2021)) https://lackingtons.com/2022/08/03/que-la-grenade-est-touchante-by-cecile-cristofari/ "Th...2023-12-131h 21