Preorders for Almanac for the Anthropocene: A Compendium of Solarpunk Futures is live! I’m so excited to be getting this book into everyone’s hands. When Brontë and I started working on the proposal for this anthology in fall of 2018, we weren’t expecting for the bulk of the work to take place during 2020 and beyond. While this has been a painful time, we’ve also learned a lot and hope this collection of different voices can inspire hope, action, and change. You can preorder the collection here: https://wvupressonline.com/node/905 I’m also happy to share the full table of contents! So many gr ..read more

I first read Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower in the summer of 2016, and I have vivid memories of Lauren Olamina packing acorn flour into her go-bag (or, as I have started calling my own, a Butler bag), of her and her companions, Harry and Zahra, setting out after their community is destroyed, and of Bankole with his cart and his property to the north. Based on these remembrances, I convinced myself that I remembered most of the book in great detail and that reading this one again I would find a lot of it familiar. As it turns out, I had forgotten much, much more than I remembered. I forg ..read more

Hi folks, When we proposed Almanac for the Anthropocene: A Compendium of Solarpunk Futures to West Virginia University Press, we didn’t realize a pandemic would happen right in the middle of it all. While it’s made the journey longer, we are even more excited about the timeliness of this collection of peer-reviewed nonfiction that thinks about solarpunk as a lifestyle and philosophy rather than just a literary genre. Expected publication is fall, 2022. I hope these colors brighten your day ..read more

Throughout 2019, I did my best to read authors that were new to me in order to intentionally broaden my reading. This personal project was a happy success. It felt great to give myself a firm reason to finally visit some authors that I’d been meaning to read for years. In 2020, though, it feels important to do the opposite: to revisit the books of my past and view them with new eyes. In an effort to learn from my rereading process and learn about both my past and current ideas, I’ll be posting occasional reviews of these books. Many of the books I reread this year will be books I love and expe ..read more

The Left Hand of Darkness Forty-six years after its original publication date, I first picked up and devoured The Left Hand of Darkness, at age 23. Now here we are, almost a year after the fiftieth anniversary of the book’s release, and I’ve finally gotten around to reading it again. But in the four-and-a-half years since I first read it, The Left Hand of Darkness has frequently been on my mind: I pondered Genly Ai’s intense isolation as the only non-Gethenian on a planet of near-endless winter, reflected on his confusion among a new society and an unfamiliar physical and sexual cycle, and mou ..read more

Dear readers, writers, artists, movers & shakers, punks & solarpunks, Well, after a year and a half of living with Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation, the anthology is almost here! It officially comes out on Tuesday (August 29th)! Twitter has alerted us that people are getting their backer copies! Send us some photos of you with your colorful copy (or some bookshelf selfies!). We hope you are enjoying the stories! If you didn’t order a copy through the Kickstarter, you can get an e-book or a paperback through Amazon, though my local bookstore was happy to order a copy ..read more

Dear Folx, We are pleased to announce we have another book under contract! While Sunvault explored solarpunk through prose, poetry, and art, our new project, Almanac for the Anthropocene, will engage with solarpunk on a practical level. Our goal with this edited collection is to provide an accessible handbook to transform the Anthropocene rather than fear it. Each chapter will have the same basic outline of interdisciplinary theory, solarpunk testimonies, and practical action. The action could take the form of recipes, building plans, how to organize a protest, etc. Each action ..read more

But until then, a few more of the wonderfully talented and Hugo-nominated Likhain‘s progress images ..read more

Featuring art from the wonderfully talented and Hugo-nominated Likhain, we are proud to present the cover for Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk & Eco-speculation! It’s been an amazing journey, you all, and we are so excited to share it with you ..read more

Hi all, We will be revealing the cover for Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk & Eco-Speculation next Wednesday! Until then, check out the first hints of color by the wonderfully talented and Hugo-nominated Likhain ..read more