Treehouses and Treasures
Treehouses and Treasures
No podcast this week, just a few cool things
Last weekend, I went to a treehouse wedding, which is precisely as cool as it sounds.
After the wedding, hubby and I stayed in our own treehouse (there are eight in this Ohio Treehouse resort), and that was crazy cool as well (Treehouse Master Pete Nelson designed two of them!).
It was all super fun, maybe too much fun (read: wine) because I managed to run myself down and, despite the open-air nature of the wedding, came back with a cold (not COVID, I tested using the Metrix PCR at-home test which is much more accurate than the rapid antigen tests—not cheap but I recommend it, given this summer COVID surge is showing no signs of slowing down; also the new vaccine is available, if you haven’t heard).
All that to explain why there’s no podcast this week! I’m couch-sitting and reading and trying not to worry about the novel that’s not getting written.
What I’m reading is definitely relevant to the next podcast I’m cooking up in my brain, though:
Meanwhile, thanks to everyone who subscribed and entered the August giveaway! I’m getting ready to ship out these treasures to the lucky winners: Kay L., Elizabeth W., Connie W., Sean B., Haley S., Kirby R., Linda K., Sarah J., Cynthia M., and R. Ruby (You should have an email from me to notify you as well!).
The podcast will continue! But I’ve got a very busy month ahead, traveling, teaching classes, doing readings, and releasing stories, plus I have to get healthy first! So the pace might be a bit slow. Details of upcoming events below.
See you next week!
Sue
Sept 17th: Closet Full of Time releases
These are not solarpunk or hopepunk! These stories address the sinking feeling that machines should serve humans, not the other way around.
Sept 28/29th: Sue teaches solarpunk!
Governor’s Island, NYC
Radical compassion. Interdependence. Community. Come learn about hopepunk and solarpunk writing and harness your imagination to build a greener and more just world. Solarpunk author Susan Kaye Quinn will lead a class discussion and conduct imagineering/flash fiction exercises to manifest that future on the page. This workshop is hosted by the NYC Climate Writers Collective and will spark creativity in everyone, whatever your writing comfort level!
Oct 7th: Metamorphosis Book Launch
Brooklyn, NYC
Otherworldly but remarkably familiar, ancestral but firmly rooted in alternate futures, these 12 innovative stories — winners of the Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors contest organized by Grist, and now featured in the brand-new anthology Metamorphosis — offer a glimpse of a future built on sustainability, inclusivity, and justice. Join Grist, the independent climate newsroom, to celebrate Metamorphosis, an anthology of 12 climate-fiction short stories that illuminate hopeful and abundant climate futures. Grist has engaged writers from across the globe to envision the next 180 years of climate progress, community-oriented solutions, and intersectional world-building. In Metamorphosis, you’ll find stories that provide flickers of hope, even joy, and serve as a springboard for exploring how fiction can help create a better reality.
Tory Stephens will moderate this conversation on the roles of imagination, creative world-building, and hopeful futures in the work to build and support today’s climate solutions. Speakers will include Imagine 2200 winning authors Louis Evans (A Seder in Siberia), Susan Kaye Quinn (Seven Sisters), and Jamie Liu (To Labor for the Hive), with readings from their stories as interpreted by Eric Lockley.
October 22nd: Metamorphosis releases
“The twelve stories and speculations in this volume suggest that survival and well-being are indeed within reach, if we exercise the qualities that best make us human.”—KEN KALFUS
