Have you ever deleted an entire page on your website, by mistake?
If so, you’ll understand why my delightful list of 33 published stories has just sailed away.
Fall 2025: “Fab Fisherman” has appeared in Belladonna’s Garden Literary Review! A sassy single mom is doing the late shift on Christmas Eve, when three unusual customers appear… (Solarpunk with humour)
https://www.belladonnasgardenlit.com/fall-2025-issue-1/202510fab-fisherman
2026: Flyway: Journal of Writing & Environment will publish a solarpunk story, “Mantidae”— which might remind you of a COP with a more appropriate ending. Coming soon!
“Crouching by Wires with Crossword” is a story/poetry in a crossword format. The Split Rock Review, spring issue 2025.
“Youth for Mars,” a solarpunk story is in an exciting new anthology Through the Portal: Hopeful Dystopias (Exile Editions, Toronto). ASK YOUR LIBRARY TO ORDER A COPY. It features about 26 Canadian writers, several rather famous, and others.
“The Wetlands Versus the Mayor” is in Solarpunk Creatures (World Weaver Press, USA). She’s sassy and she’s fighting back, with a little help from some human allies.
“Rules for a Civilization” is the opening story in a visually splendid hardcover Solarpunk (Flame Tree Press, UK) . The stories are international and I am both humbled and delighted to have my story in it.
“Mad Scientists” is featured on Fairlight Books Short Stories (UK), a modern solarpunk for educators, parents and you, if you’d like a peek into a grade 8 classroom. It’s chaos.
“The Narrow Cafe” is a short search on the Yale Review Online website. Tell me if you’re craving anything afterward.
“Lightning in 35-” is on Alluvian literary magazine’s website, under Weird Weather.
“Aborite Countertops” won first prize on Onyx Publications literary journal website. There’s a recorded interview as well.
“Benni and Shiya are Leaving” was one of the 12 winners of Grist Magazine’s Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors. Check out the 2022 collection. It has become the germ of a fun novel.
“Camping with City Boy,” will teach you how to test a partner for a long term relationship. Find it in Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers (World Weaver Press.) I have a very different story in Solarpunk Winters that has been translated into Polish and Italian for various publishers.
“In the Karakum Desert,” in Flyway: Journal of Writing & Environment is climate fiction with a twist mixed with historical fiction. Solarpunk with a punch.
“Cinnamon” in The New Quarterly, Issue 154, has a barista with absurdly long lashes who romances a mathematician with tales from history. You can join TNQ online for free and see some back issues. I have another story, “Transformation” in Issue 145, uplifting flash.
Well, there’s more. Seriously. Search Everyday Fiction for a gentle murder mystery (yes, it’s solarpunk), Fictive Dreams or Feminine Collective or The Antigonish Review, Room or The Dalhousie Review for serious stories, Fiction on the Web or The Penman Review for a laugh out loud one. My opinion, of course. And others:
Toasted Cheese, Loud Coffee Press, in This Will Only Take a Minute (Guernica Editions), in Nevertheless: Tesseracts 21 (Edge Press), and a few others.
In the meantime, I’m working night and day to help bring “positive solutions’ Climate Education” to youth, anywhere. Check my Education page, but peek at Youth Imagine the Future.com. I am so proud of the 2300 students we presented a cool slideshow to across Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee territory in Eastern Ontario, Canada. The 200+ stories and artworks created by teens have inspired me to keep fighting for social justice for all, for alternatives to fossil fuel (hey, we love our heat pump!), and for everyone helping to restore biodiversity. (We just wrapped a lot of baby trees to keep rabbits and deer from nibbling on them over the winter in our Miyawaki little forests. (Curious? See LittleForests.org)
Check out a story. Ask your library to carry solarpunk writing.
P.S. Photos of these great magazines/journals are on the “Fiction News” page.
Happy Solstice!
-Jerri
Jerri Jerreat, Author 