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Field Notes for Storytellers: Research, Security, and the Archival Muse fills a wide gap in storytelling instruction by helping you organize and conduct the research that underpins the stories you tell. There are four modules in the course, and each of them draws upon my experience as a storyteller, a folklorist, a doctoral researcher of ethically sensitive topics, and the CEO of a technology company.
"Passion, Empathy, and Action: A Critical Introduction to The Climate Fiction Writers League" Presented at the International Society for Folk Narrative Research Interim Conference Titled "Nature(s) in Narrative" on June 13, 2026.
In a 2023 article for Esquire magazine, climate fiction author Jeff Vandermeer asks: "Should or can fiction be a manual for useful change?" As the author of the successful eco-horror novel Annihilation and subsequent novels in the Southern Reach Series, and more recently the dystopian climate change novel Hummingbird Salamander, Vandermeer is certainly qualified to discuss the usefulness of climate fiction to instruct and persuade readers. However, he also writes:
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