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Briefly Very BeautifulRoz Dineen

Roz Dineen — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 07:01:00 +0000

She knew that there were other parents in the streets nearby silently planning their terror runs, just like her, just then. This was reassuring, like a superstition, or a community. Hot magic-blue night. She said, ‘Whisper.’ ‘What if I’m scared?’ whispered Vito, who was eight. ‘Of the insects, maybe?’ ‘There is nothing to be [...]

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Q&A with Roz DineenLiz Jensen and Natasha Walter

Roz Dineen — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 07:00:56 +0000

Briefly Very Beautiful, set in the near future in a country that is never named as Britain, involves some bold world-building choices. Which of these were the easiest to make, and which the hardest? Those choices were quite straightforward. I was drawing logical conclusions from existing conditions. If this, then this. If fire, then [...]

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Paddling PoolClaire Carroll

Claire Carroll — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 07:00:18 +0000

It’s not unethical to buy one, despite what some people say. Sure, there’s too much plastic in the world, too much material, too many petrochemicals, but no one has told us definitively that it’s not OK. They would have banned them, anyway. It’s completely fine if you want to walk to the hypermarket to [...]

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FLASH FICTION COMPETITIONWriting Thrutopia

Liz Jensen — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 10:04:53 +0000

Our mission at Writers Rebel is to motivate writers not only to write about the climate emergency, but to get their work into the world and begin to enrage, engage and inspire readers. Because in order to navigate the crisis and change the business-as-usual narrative of our politicians and mainstream media, we need first [...]

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STRANGER THAN FICTION Melissa Gismondi

Melissa Gismondi — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 10:59:27 +0000

A few weeks ago, I was working on a story which features a character overwhelmed at the crises facing our world. I typed the words livable future because I wanted the character to engage with the absurdity of such a phrase, the fact that the possibility of it is still — shockingly — up [...]

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WHERE ARE ALL THE CLIMATE ROMCOMS?Alix O’Neill

Alix O'Neill — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 09:00:16 +0000

In case you haven’t heard, the romcom is back. I read the other day that thirty-six new romantic comedies are coming out this year. To quote Meg Ryan, “Yes, yes, YES!” In an age of existential despair and geopolitical turmoil, a time when coverage of the Israel-Palestine war is interrupted by the breaking news [...]

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