fiction Archives - Writers Rebel https://writersrebel.com/tag/fiction/ Thu, 16 Nov 2023 11:02:33 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.7 https://i0.wp.com/writersrebel.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/index-1.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 fiction Archives - Writers Rebel https://writersrebel.com/tag/fiction/ 32 32 184391167 On Writing the UnthinkableAmitav Ghosh and Liz Jensen https://writersrebel.com/on-writing-the-unthinkable/ Thu, 16 Nov 2023 10:21:15 +0000 https://writersrebel.com/?p=5759   In your 2016 book The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable you take contemporary literature to task for failing to address the climate and ecological crisis. Have fiction writers woken up since then – and if so, what are the most important changes you’ve seen in the literary landscape since 2016? Has the [...]

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Q&A with Kim Stanley RobinsonLiz Jensen https://writersrebel.com/qa-with-kim-stanley-robinson/ Thu, 09 Jun 2022 07:00:21 +0000 https://writersrebel.com/?p=4730     Kim Stanley Robinson is widely recognized as one of the world’s foremost science fiction writers. He has received both the Robert A. Heinlein Award and the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society for his body of work, which includes the Mars trilogy, the Science in the City trilogy, and [...]

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A human city burning in the distanceChiara Ambrosio interviews Oliver R. Cheetham https://writersrebel.com/chiara-ambrosio-interviews-oliver-r-cheetham/ Thu, 02 Jun 2022 07:00:40 +0000 https://writersrebel.com/?p=4702 A conversation between Chiara Ambrosio, co-founder of independent childrens’ book publishing house Child Be Strange, and Oliver R. Cheetham, author of Roger The Elephant.     Roger the elephant was a buffalo: Or at least that’s what his parents told him, and he’d never known them to be wrong…   Chiara: Your book is about [...]

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Shades of EmergencyDaisy Hildyard https://writersrebel.com/shades-of-emergency/ Thu, 28 Apr 2022 07:01:24 +0000 https://writersrebel.com/?p=4571   What does emergency feel like? If you’re in Henan, China, perhaps you felt a goldfish nibbling your foot as you waded along the pavement during the summer floods. If you’re in Madrid or Chennai or Sydney, maybe it was stifling heat, the smell of rotting trash, dead insects crisping on the windowsill. If you’re [...]

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Q&A with Maggie GeeSharon Eckman https://writersrebel.com/qa-with-maggie-gee/ Thu, 07 Apr 2022 07:00:06 +0000 https://writersrebel.com/?p=4384 Professor Maggie Gee speaks to Writers Rebel’s Sharon Eckman about her new book The Red Children, released today, and how it might inspire wider understanding and action around climate change. Read on for some extracts from the book.   SE: You said that you wanted to write an ‘upbeat, funny novel’ about climate change, which [...]

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Q&A with Margaret AtwoodToby Litt https://writersrebel.com/qa-with-margaret-atwood/ Thu, 31 Mar 2022 07:00:48 +0000 https://writersrebel.com/?p=4264   This interview took place on Thursday 24th March 2022. The wonderful Margaret Atwood was in London for an event at the Royal Festival Hall, promoting Burning Questions, her new book of essays and occasional pieces. She spoke with Toby Litt, editor of the Writers Rebel website.   TL: Thank you for talking to us. [...]

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What We Find in the Guts of the Bodies that the River Gives UsPhilip Webb Gregg https://writersrebel.com/what-we-find-in-the-guts-of-the-bodies-that-the-river-gives-us/ Thu, 24 Mar 2022 08:00:48 +0000 https://writersrebel.com/?p=4255   There is a place where the river meets the land; a kink in the direction of the water, so that the usually tranquil current froths to a restless swirl, and things wash up onto the grass like bad food spat out. For the past two weeks we have been pulling bodies from that place [...]

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Gigantic Cinema: A Weather Anthology | edited by Alice Oswald & Paul Keegan https://writersrebel.com/gigantic-cinema-a-weather-anthology/ Mon, 07 Mar 2022 17:46:12 +0000 https://writersrebel.com/?p=4131 [...]

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Listen: Parables of Nutmegs and GenocideAmitav Ghosh https://writersrebel.com/listen-parables-of-nutmegs-and-genocide/ Thu, 17 Feb 2022 08:00:05 +0000 https://writersrebel.com/?p=4039   Amitav Ghosh is an influential Indian writer and environmental thinker who has won many honours for his fiction. A former academic, he’s the author of several substantial works of non-fiction, including The Great Derangement, an exploration of literature’s failure to address the climate and ecological emergency. His new work, The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in [...]

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