With a call out for stories and volunteers, here is the latest Retreat West newsletter:
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please donate a story and your time to help fight climate change
You may already know that as well as writing fiction
and running Retreat West I'm also a freelance journalist writing
about environmental sustainability. I've been working in this field
for almost 20 years and in that time I'm sad to say that things
have got a lot worse. But they've also got a lot better in terms of
the creative solutions that people are coming up with and the
awareness of the issues we face.
Two of my most recent articles on the subject: The vanishing islands of the Pacific
and the very sobering 2 billion climate refugees within 83 years,
as well as two more that are being published soon about food
security and vanishing coral reefs, have made me realise I need to
do more to help.
So inspired by the amazing work the Stories for Homes project has done
to raise money for Shelter, I'm helping in the only way I know
how. Through storytelling. I'm calling for submissions for
short stories and flash fictions in the newly emerging cli-fi
genre, which is what my new novel fits into. They will be gathered
into an anthology and the profits will be donated to the Earth Day
Network, which is working to diversify, educate and activate the
environmental movement worldwide. It also does tangible things like
planting trees, lobbying governments, and tackling corporations who
are some of the biggest threats to the environment.
You can find all of the submission details here
if you would like to appear in the anthology. There's also an
option to make a £2 donation when you submit, which will be sent to
the Earth Day Network once the submission deadline has
passed.
I'm also looking for volunteers to help me with this project as
it's a bit too big to handle it all alone. I'd like help with
reading submissions and choosing which stories go in the anthology,
editing, cover design, proofreading, promotion and marketing. If
you'd like to be involved email me to let me know how you
can help.
Please also share this far and wide with all the writers you
know.
I look forward to reading the stories and working together to help
turn things around.
Amanda x
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