I enjoy writing and I want to write a bunch of what I’m calling “Joyful Woke Post-Industrial Solarpunk”. (By “woke” I mean writing stories that are Diverse Egalitarian and Inclusive.) If you are interested in writing something with me (or you think you know someone who might be) please contact me at moonraven222 at gmail dot com.
I’ve written some things already and plan to publish them here next.
“The Vegetable Liberation Squad” is my attempt at a solarpunk heist story. I submitted it to Solarpunk Magazine but it wasn’t accepted. It’s a long story and I plan to post it here in four installments.
After that I plan to post “Teaching Vignette #43”. I realized I hadn’t seen many solarpunk stories about health care so I tried to imagine what health care might look like in a postindustrial world where they’ve transitioned with ease.
Here’s some examples of the style of stories that I’d really like to write in the future.
The best examples:
Naomi Kritzer, “The Year Without Sunshine”
Danielle Arostegui, “A Merger in Corn Country”, in Bright Green Futures 2024
Andrea Hairston, Archangels of Funk
Some other examples:
from Serena Ulibarri (ed), Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers
Julia K Patt, “Caught Root”
Holly Schofield, “Call of the Wold”
Commando Jugendstil and Tales from the EV Studio, “Midsummer Night’s Heist”
from Phoebe Wagner and Brontë Christopher Wieland (eds), Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation
T X Watson, “The Boston Hearth Project”
Maura Lydon, “The Herbalist”
from Susan Kaye Quinn (ed), Bright Green Futures 2024
Renan Bernardo, “The Doglady and the Rainstorm”
Ana Sun, “Coriander”
from Susan Kaye Quinn, Halfway to Better
“Planting the Shell-Bones”
from Gerson Lodi-Ribeiro (ed), Solarpunk: Ecological and Fantastical Stories in a Sustainable World
Antonio Luiz M. C. Costa, “Once upon a Time in a World”
from Christoph Ruprecht, Deborah Cleland, Norie Tamura, Rajat Chaudhuri, Sarena Ulibarri (eds), Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures
N. R. M. Roshak, “By the Light of the Stars”
Kate V. Bui, “Deer, Tiger, and Witch”
D A Xiaolin Spires, “The Exuberant Vitality of Hatchling Habitats”
Timothy Yam, “Untamed”
Ernest Callenbach, Ecotopia
John Michael Greer, Retrotopia
I’ve also been very influenced by some parts of:
Aldous Huxley, Island
Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time
Ursula K Leguin, The Dispossessed
Ernest Callenbach, Ecotopia Emerging
Starhawk, The Fifth Sacred Thing
Starhawk, The City of Refuge
Cory Doctorow, Walkaway
Cory Doctorow, The Lost Cause
Ruthanna Emrys, A Half-Built Garden