
They're nongender most conventional and neo-pronouns are acceptable. They graduated from Northern Essex Community College in spring 2015 with associate degrees in philosophy and journalism, and are currently attending Hampshire College. Currently she is also working with TX Watson, Faith Roses Gregory, and Claudie Arseneault to host a solarpunk short story writing and art contest. The following summer Mary interviewed Adam at Eco-fiction. Mary's interest in solarpunk started a couple years ago when reading an article by Adam Flynn, called Solarpunk: Notes toward a Manifesto. Mary's newest project is, which began August 10, 2013. Mary Woodbury - is the owner of Moon Willow Press and the chief editor and co-founder of Jack Magazine. Writes about the fantastical, the heretical, and the hopeful. KD Hume - describes herself on Tumblr as a "Book enthusiast, part time mermaid, queer witch, solarpunk. She graduated from Northern Essex Community College in August 2015 with associate degrees in political science and journalism, and she is moving to the Amherst area where she is taking a year off to focus on creative work. Pierson, she edited Wings of Renewal: A Solarpunk Dragon Anthology, published by Incandescent Phoenix.įaith Roses Gregory - blogs at and. A fan of science fiction and fantasy, most of her stories are led by characters on the LGBTQ+ spectrum (including less represented identities). She started writing in 2007 and aspires to create diverse worlds. He is a communications associate at Center for Care Innovations.Ĭlaudie Arseneault - is a young French Canadian writer, living in Quebec City. He has been described as a brand strategist based in San Francisco, who is heavily involved in the early stirrings of this movement.Īndrew Dana Hudson - wrote the thought-provoking On the Political Dimensons of Solarpunk at. Aesthetically it also sits opposed to the often plain and sterile aesthetics of other futuristic subgenres.Īdam Flynn - is one of the main stewards in the solarpunk movement, having talked about solarpunk in Grist, Hieroglpyh, and ABC.net Australia. In contrast to the other Science Fiction genres that it derives from, however, Solarpunk narratives have a distinctly positive and Utopian foundation - as opposed to what are often Dystopian narratives found within Science Fiction it is a collaborative social effort to imagine and design a world of prosperity, peace, sustainability, and beauty- one which is realistically achievable with current technology. Solarpunk is a relatively new speculative movement that term originated with the user "missolivialouise" on the popular social blogging platform Tumblr in August 2014 a literary, aesthetic, and artistic subgenre that was created in the wake of cyberpunk and its other derivatives biopunk and steampunk. Solarpunk is the topic in our third SFFWorld Topic debate and we have been so lucky to be joined by no less than eight knowledgeable guest hosts.
