#solarpunk art 2023

[andrew-ism]

Solarpunk Art 2023 (BIOREGIONS)

Temperate Grassland in Ukraine by @the.lemonaut.

Desert/Xeric Shrublands in South Africa by @draakart

Mediterranean Forests/Scrubs in Southern California, USA by @helentadesseart

Boreal Forest by @_frandszk.

Mediterranean Forest/Scrubs in Tijuana, Mexico by Limonarte

Subtropical Evergreen Forests in South China & Vietnam by @solariscrescentart

Tropical & Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests in the Philippines by @lacan.lacapat

Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests in the Ozark Highlands of the USA by Xiantifa

Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests by Arikadough

Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests in Indiana, USA by Toby Raab

Subtropical Evergreen Forests in South East Asia by @erisdar_art

Various Bioregions by Dustin Jacobus (@solarpunkart)

[godbirdart]

「 OC: EUILLCYS 」 🌿

[frozen-fountain]

Inktober, Day One: Dream

[meebleagain]

inktobers part 1 / 2 / 3

[nathandiary]

that's one of the artists I researched last week!

Her name is Jessica Woulfe and she worked on the solarpunk background art of the commercial

she has some more solarpunk art on her Artstation account, I really like the last one (pretty sure it references Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind)

[duckprintspress]

Duck Prints Press Books by Agender Authors for Agender Pride Day!

The last two years, for Agender Pride Day (today, May 19th!), we’ve done rec lists (2023 | 2024) featuring books with agender characters – both those we’ve published and others. This year, we thought we’d instead focus on authors! Thus, for Agender Pride Day 2025, we present 8 agender authors and artists we work with (including yours truly, the Press’s owner, aka unforth, aka Claire, aka Nina Waters). Some of these works feature agender characters, some don’t, but across the board, we are who we are, and we are proud to be agender creators!

Read on to see the above slides as a list, with links to each story or anthology!

S. J. Ralston

Razzmatazz in Aether Beyond the Binary

The Inscrutable Fate of the ISV Devotion (Patreon exclusive)

J. D. Harlock

Somewhere Other Than Here in A Truth Universally Acknowledged

Sword Dancer in Aim For The Heart

Chinaski’s Dirty Work

The Sea Bears Salvage Co. (Patreon exclusive)

Solarpunks: Viva la Revolución

An Odd Gathering of Peculiar Cats

The Blood Tithe (Patreon exclusive)

Ride On, Shooting Star (Patreon exclusive)

Alex Bauer

Wintersong in Many Hands

Nina Waters

A Glimmer of Hope (novel)

The Last Letters of Mrs. Victoria Holmwood

Puppetry

Widow’s Black

Lust

Knishes and Noshes and Angel in Add Magic to Taste

To Dance at Lady Chadston’s (Patreon exclusive)

Bi-Pan Solidarity (Patreon exclusive)

Zel Howland

Art: Chrysopoeia (Patreon exclusive)

Chrysopoeia

The Lightkeeper and the Sea (Patreon exclusive)

Flower and Rot in Aether Beyond the Binary

Pas De Deux and A Stolen Moment in A Truth Universally Acknowledged

Rascal Hartley

Among the Stars in She Wears the Midnight Crown

Trousers and Other Oddities in A Truth Universally Acknowledged

Lyn Weaver

Weather the Storm

What Monsters Need (Patreon exclusive)

We All Need to Get By

Things We Know, But Don’t Recall

Count the Number of Seeds

Entanglement

Growing Wild (Patreon exclusive)

Can Virtue Hide Itself? in And Seek (Not) to Alter Me

The Thing With Feathers in She Wears the Midnight Crown

Catherine E. Green

Of Loops and Weaves

The Serendipity of a Late Train in Aim For The Heart

To Hold the World Close in Aether Beyond the Binary

[solhaelan]

Welp, here's some Solarpunk art that I actually did back in 2023, about the same time as the Bioregion one that I posted around then. For some reason, I never got around to posting it, even during Solarpunk Aesthetic Week, but anyway here it is now!

This one imagines a future (or alternate present!) version of so-called 'indianapolis' without light pollution, where you can see the Milky Way from the middle of the city, and people with constellation makeup play bodhrans and glow-in-the-dark guitars under trees and Dark Sky compliant streetlights that look like flowers native to the region. The building once known as 'salesforce tower' has no branding now, and all the visible lights are of a temperature that doesn't disrupt human circadian rhythms or chiropteran flight patterns.

[chronicalily]

Hello :] I guess this is my introduction post.

A little disclaimer, this is my first time using this app, I'm not very knowledgeable about how it functions.

My name is Lily, I do art and write most of the time. I am a Reality Shifter, yes. I love the flower Lily of the Valley if it is not too obvious.

A little backstory;

I discovered Reality Shifting at the late 2022-2023 on tiktok, I'm unsure of the exact year but it was somewhere around when the pandemic was ending and face to face classes were being reintroduced. Although the old shiftok mindset was being buried, I was still a victim of the clone, specific methods, and whatnots mindset. I've used Amino for a while back before eventually losing interest as well. Now I'm back here :) As summer crept in, so did my past obsessions. Now I've got a better grasp on how Reality Shifting works, with better information and beliefs. Now if you're wondering what my DR's are;

MCU

Once Upon a Time

Better CR

MLP | EQ (Basically a high school DR)

Future DR (Cyberpunk with Solarpunk )

Bird-folk DR (Winged Humans)

Encantadia

Job DR (different jobs)

Rich Asian DR

Camp Half-Blood DR

Infinite sweets and food world Reality

I made this bulleted list thinking it'd be long but apparently although I'm in a wide range of fandoms, I'm not really interested in being in that reality.

I'd love to have friends in the Shifting Community, I've only got three friends who know about it but they don't wholeheartedly believe in it like I do. I pretty much keep all the info to myself, so I'm excited to share it here on Tumblr in my safe little space.

that's all, thank you! <3

[solarpunkani]

My Plans for Solarpunk Aesthetic Week 3

Solarpunk Aesthetic Week 3 begins in a week! I hope everyone's excited--I sure am!

Knowing me, I likely won't get to everything on this list (I haven't the past two years, after all). Also knowing me, I'll likely think of things after I post this list that I might wind up doing instead. But! Hopefully this list of plans helps inspire you, or at least holds me somewhat accountable.

So what am I planning to do to celebrate the event?

On the very tippy top of my list is finally putting together an above-ground mini pond idea I have! I still have to draw up the plans, and I'm not gonna pretend to be an expert on making mini ponds, but I'm excited to give things a shot! I've been sitting around with the materials for a week now biting the urge to do it because I want this to be one of my Big Solarpunk Things.

I've been working on a crochet dragonfly cloak for awhile, and I'm hoping to have it finished by the end of SAesW! Even if I don't wind up finishing it, I think at least posting a project update during this time would be nice!

Maybe I'll finally crochet myself a cute turtle. I've seen patterns online of turtles with sunflower shells so I might give that one a go!

At the very least I have a granny square tote bag that I literally just need to sew together (and make a lining for but shhhh). And a gift for my mom but yknow.

Initially back in April-May era I was planning to write a short story to share for the event, but I couldn't come up with anything? Every idea I came up with had too many holes and at this point I wouldn't count on me posting a story during the event. Buuuut I might start a short story (or resume work on my Solarpunk Zombie Story that I haven't worked on since May 14th 2023).

If my tablet behaves, I might try making solarpunk art? I struggle with feeling like I can make solarpunk art but I have a few ideas I might try to do!

I wouldn't place any bets on me whipping out the sewing machine because I've been meaning to for months now and it hasn't happened. But if I do, I'll sew a lining for my sunflower crochet bag, and maybe make some more face masks while I'm at it!

Is this when Ani finally begins her Learning Embroidery Era? Who know! Not me!

Depending on the weather maybe I'll see about convincing myself to check out the local Aboretum that I did not know existed in my city until this February. Maybe convince Dad to come with? We must keep in mind the temps have been in the 90s lately (and that's before counting humidity) so it really depends on my willpower.

My tomato plants aren't doing as well as they were last year but if I get more tomatoes I'll see what happens. At the very least I can post pictures of bugs on my gardening blog.

That's what I'm planning! What are you guys hoping to do?

[mostlysignssomeportents]

All the books I reviewed in 2023 (Graphic Novels)

Next Tuesday (December 5), I'm at Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill, NC, with my new solarpunk novel The Lost Cause, which 350.org's Bill McKibben called "The first great YIMBY novel: perceptive, scientifically sound, and extraordinarily hopeful."

It's that time of year again, when I round up all the books I reviewed for my newsletter in the previous year. I posted 21 reviews last year, covering 31 books (there are two series in there!). I also published three books of my own last year (two novels and one nonfiction). A busy year in books!

Every year, these roundups remind me that I did actually manager to get a lot of reading done, even if the list of extremely good books that I didn't read is much longer than the list of books I did read. I read many of these books while doing physiotherapy for my chronic pain, specifically as audiobooks I listened to on my underwater MP3 player while doing my daily laps at the public pool across the street from my house.

After many years of using generic Chinese waterproof MP3s players – whose quality steadily declined over a decade – I gave up and bought a brand-name player, a Shokz Openswim. So far, I have no complaints. Thanks to reader Abbas Halai for recommending this!

https://shokz.com/products/openswim

I load up this gadget with audiobook MP3s bought from Libro.fm, a fantastic, DRM-free alternative to Audible, which is both a monopolist and a prolific wage-thief with a documented history of stealing from writers:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/07/25/can-you-hear-me-now/#acx-ripoff

All right, enough with the process notes, on to the reviews!

GRAPHIC NOVELS

I. Shubiek Lubiek by Deena Mohamed

An intricate alternate history in which wishes are real, and must be refined from a kind of raw wish-stuff that has to be dug out of the earth. Naturally, this has been an important element of geopolitics and colonization, especially since the wish-stuff is concentrated in the global south, particularly Egypt, the setting for our tale. The framing device for the trilogy is the tale of three "first class" wishes: these are the most powerful wishes that civilians are allowed to use, the kind of thing you might use to cure cancer or reverse a crop-failure.

https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/11/your-wish/#is-my-command

II. Ducks by Kate Beaton

In 2005, Beaton was a newly minted art-school grad facing a crushing load of student debt, a debt she would never be able to manage in the crumbling, post-boom economy of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Like so many Maritimers, she left the home that meant everything for her to travel to Alberta, where the tar sands oil boom promised unmatched riches for anyone willing to take them. Beaton's memoir describes the following four years, as she works her way into a series of oil industry jobs in isolated company towns where men outnumber women 50:1 and where whole communities marinate in a literally toxic brew of carcinogens, misogyny, economic desperation and environmental degradation. The story that follows is – naturally – wrenching, but it is also subtle and ambivalent. Beaton finds camaraderie with – and empathy for – the people she works alongside, even amidst unimaginable, grinding workplace harassment that manifests in both obvious and glancing ways.

https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/14/hark-an-oilpatch/#kate-beaton

III. Justice Warriors by Matt Bors

Justice Warriors is what you'd get if you put Judge Dredd in a blender with Transmetropolitan and set it to chunky. The setup: the elites of a wasted, tormented world have retreated into Bubble City, beneath a hermetically sealed zone. Within Bubble City, everything is run according to the priorities of the descendants of the most internet-poisoned freaks of the modern internet, click- and clout-chasing mushminds full of corporate-washed platitudes about self-care, diversity and equity, wrapped around come-ons for sugary drinks and dubious dropshipper crapola. It's a cop buddy-story dreamed up by Very Online, very angry creators who live in a present-day world where reality is consistently stupider than satire.

https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/22/libras-assemble/#the-uz

IV. Roaming by Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki

The story of three young Canadian women meeting up for a getaway to New York City. Zoe and Dani are high-school best friends who haven't seen each other since they graduated and decamped for universities in different cities. Fiona is Dani's art-school classmate, a glamorous and cantankerous artist with an affected air of sophistication. It's a dizzying, beautifully wrought three-body problem as the three protagonists struggle with resentments and love, sex and insecurity. The relationships between Zoe, Dani and Fiona careen wildly from scene to scene and even panel to panel, propelled by sly graphic cues and fantastically understated dialog.

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/11/as-canadian-as/#possible-under-the-circumstances

Like I said, this has been a good year in books for me, and it included three books of my own:

I. Red Team Blues (novel, Tor Books US, Head of Zeus UK)

Martin Hench is 67 years old, single, and successful in a career stretching back to the beginnings of Silicon Valley. He lives and roams California in a very comfortable fully-furnished touring bus, The Unsalted Hash, that he bought years ago from a fading rock star. He knows his way around good food and fine drink. He likes intelligent women, and they like him back often enough. Martin is a—contain your excitement—self-employed forensic accountant, a veteran of the long guerilla war between people who want to hide money, and people who want to find it. He knows computer hardware and software alike, including the ins and outs of high-end databases and the kinds of spreadsheets that are designed to conceal rather than reveal. He’s as comfortable with social media as people a quarter his age, and he’s a world-level expert on the kind of international money-laundering and shell-company chicanery used by Fortune 500 companies, mid-divorce billionaires, and international drug gangs alike. He also knows the Valley like the back of his hand, all the secret histories of charismatic company founders and Sand Hill Road VCs. Because he was there at all the beginnings. Now he’s been roped into a job that’s more dangerous than anything he’s ever agreed to before—and it will take every ounce of his skill to get out alive.

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865847/red-team-blues

II. The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation (nonfiction, Verso)

We can – we must – dismantle the tech platforms. We must to seize the means of computation by forcing Silicon Valley to do the thing it fears most: interoperate. Interoperability will tear down the walls between technologies, allowing users to leave platforms, remix their media, and reconfigure their devices without corporate permission. Interoperability is the only route to the rapid and enduring annihilation of the platforms. The Internet Con is the disassembly manual we need to take back our internet.

https://www.versobooks.com/products/3035-the-internet-con

III. The Lost Cause (novel, Tor Books US, Head of Zeus UK)

For young Americans a generation from now, climate change isn't controversial. It's just an overwhelming fact of life. And so are the great efforts to contain and mitigate it. Entire cities are being moved inland from the rising seas. Vast clean-energy projects are springing up everywhere. Disaster relief, the mitigation of floods and superstorms, has become a skill for which tens of millions of people are trained every year. The effort is global. It employs everyone who wants to work. Even when national politics oscillates back to right-wing leaders, the momentum is too great; these vast programs cannot be stopped in their tracks.

But there are still those Americans, mostly elderly, who cling to their red baseball caps, their grievances, their huge vehicles, their anger. To their "alternative" news sources that reassure them that their resentment is right and pure and that "climate change" is just a giant scam. And they're your grandfather, your uncle, your great-aunt. And they're not going anywhere. And they’re armed to the teeth. The Lost Cause asks: What do we do about people who cling to the belief that their own children are the enemy? When, in fact, they're often the elders that we love?

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865939/the-lost-cause

I wrote nine books during lockdown, and there's plenty more to come. The next one is The Bezzle, a followup to Red Team Blues, which comes out in February:

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865878/thebezzle

While you're waiting for that one, I hope the reviews above will help you connect with some excellent books. If you want more of my reviews, here's my annual roundup from 2022:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/01/bookishness/#2022-in-review

Here's my book reviews from 2021:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/12/08/required-ish-reading/#bibliography

And here's my book reviews from 2020:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/12/08/required-reading/#recommended-reading

It's EFF's Power Up Your Donation Week: this week, donations to the Electronic Frontier Foundation are matched 1:1, meaning your money goes twice as far. I've worked with EFF for 22 years now and I have always been - and remain - a major donor, because I've seen firsthand how effective, responsible and brilliant this organization is. Please join me in helping EFF continue its work!

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/01/bookmaker/#2023-in-review

[solarpunkmagazine]

Solarpunk Magazine 2024 Funding Announcement

Pleased to share that our crowdfunding campaign for our 2024 issues goes live on October 10th! Hit the pre-launch to get notified when we go live. Our annual campaign ensures we can pay 8 cents a word for fiction for another year with the same amount content.

We have four main, basic perk tiers this year. The first two, of course, are our basic annual subscription (six issues) and our lifetime subscription.

Our third main tier for this campaign is a 2024 subscription plus a copy of the solarpunk comicbook ANTICIPATION OF HOLLOWNESS, story by Renan Bernardo, script by Michelle Paris, art by Lorenzo Livrieri.

Our fourth main perk tier is a 2024 subscription plus a copy of the first annual BEST OF UTOPIAN SPECULATIVE FICTION ANTHOLOGY.

In addition, all backers get digital copies of our latest Editor's Anthology with stories by our editorial team, as well as our 2023 Micro Fiction Anthology, and more.

Live Oct 10th! Please share, and thank you for reading! 🌞💚

[godbirdart]

「 EXIT 」 🌿

[thehorrortree]

Submission Window: January 1st - 14th, 2023 Payment: Fiction: 1500-7500 words ($.08 per word, $100 minimum), Poetry: up to 5 poems or 5 pages of poems, whichever is shorter. ($40 per poem), Nonfiction: 1000-2000 words ($75 per essay or article, Cover Art: $100 for reprints, $200 for original unpublished, Interior Art: $50 for reprints, $100 for original unpublished Theme: Solarpunk is a prefigurative, utopian artistic movement that envisions what the future might look like if humanity solved major modern challenges like climate change, and created more sustainable and balanced societies. As a genre and cultural aesthetic, it encompasses literature, visual art, fashion, video games, architecture, and more. Solarpunk carries many aspects of punk ideologies such as rebelliousness, humanitarianism, egalitarianism, animal rights, decolonization, anti-racism, anti-sexism, anti-authoritarianism, anti-corporatism, and anti-consumerism. Similar to the cyberpunk genre, the big difference between the two is that in solarpunk technology and nature are in harmony with one another rather than in conflict. Submissions are closed for the rest of 2023. Our 2024 submission window schedule will be published by the end of September. (At the moment, our nonfiction department is current and always open for submissions. If the fiction portal is closed and you submit fiction through the open nonfiction portal, your submission will be rejected.) All submissions to Solarpunk Magazine are done via Moksha. Any submissions received via email will be deleted without a response. Please don’t email us to describe your story and ask if it’s something we’d be interested in before submitting. We appreciate the consideration, but its easier if you just submit the story through Moksha. Please read the full submission guidelines on down below or on our Moksha page before submitting your work. All submission periods end at 11:59 pm PST on the 14th of their given month. 2024 Submission Window Schedule: January 1-14 April 1-14* July 1-14** October 1-14 2024 Issue Release Schedule: Issue #13 – January 10 Issue #14 – March 12 Issue #15 – May 14 Issue #16 – July 9 (Colorful Roots)* Issue #17 – September 10 Issue #18 – November 12 (theme TBA)** *Submissions for the Colorful Roots themed issue will be accepted during our April open window. We will also accept non-themed solarpunk submissions during March. **Submissions for an additional themed issue will be accepted during our July open window. More information about the theme is coming soon! The Basics: If your work is accepted, please wait two full submission windows before submitting again. For example, if a story you receive word in April that your story is accepted, please do not submit during the May and July open windows, but feel free to do so once the September window opens. Simultaneous submissions: Yes, but please let us know immediately if your submission gets accepted elsewhere before you hear from us. Unsolicited reprints: No Translations: Yes Multiple Submissions: No, not within each category. But you can enter one submission per category per submission period. For example, you can submit one short story, poetry, and a nonfiction article all in the same submission window using each individual submission portal. Policy on Artificial Intelligence We recognize that there is a lot of positive potential for human societies in the development and use of artificial intelligence. We also recognize that there is a lot of justifiable concern over generative AI, data scraping, plagiarizing human created art and literary works, and the potential for AI to displace paying jobs for human artists and authors as a means of further enriching those at the top. Solarpunk Magazine is and remains a venue for human authors and artists to showcase their work. As a result, until further notice, we’ve implemented a strict policy that we do not accept any work created or altered by generative artificial intelligence programs such as, but not limited to Midjourney, Dall-E, and ChatGPT.

For a more in depth explanation of the reasoning behind this policy, please click here. Basic Formatting: •12 pt Times New Roman or comparable font •Double spaced (poetry does not need to be double spaced) •Indent paragraphs, no extra space after paragraphs (also not relevant for poetry) •Please number your pages •.doc, .docx, or .pdf for text files •.jpg or .png 300+ DPI for image files Word Counts & Pay Rates: Solarpunk Magazine pays professional market rates for fiction as defined by SFWA. Dollar amounts reflect the United States dollar (USD). Our rates are as follows: Fiction: 1500-7500 words ($.08 per word, $100 minimum) Poetry: up to 5 poems or 5 pages of poems, whichever is shorter. ($40 per poem) Nonfiction: 1000-2000 words ($75 per essay or article) Cover Art: $100 for reprints, $200 for original unpublished Interior Art: $50 for reprints, $100 for original unpublished If your submission is accepted, a copy of our publishing contract will be emailed to you to read, sign, and return. Go To Moksha Full Submission Guidelines All submissions are done via Moksha. Any submissions received via email will be deleted without response. Additional guidelines for each specific submission category are available below. For fiction and nonfiction, please format your submission document as follows: double-spaced 12pt Times New Roman font indented paragraphs no extra space after paragraphs A cover letter is not required. However, we appreciate a brief paragraph telling us a little bit about yourself like where you’re from and why you love solarpunk. There is no need to include a third person bio. We will collect that and other needed info if your submission is accepted for publication. Responding to all submissions is important to us, and we do our best to respond in a timely manner. However, we receive a very large number of submissions. So if you have not received a response within 60 days of submitting, then please feel free to inquire by sending an email to the appropriate department address found at solarpunkmagazine.com/contact. Simultaneous submissions are okay. Please let us know immediately if your submission gets accepted elsewhere before you hear from us. We only accept submissions of original, unpublished work. We do not accept unsolicited reprints. Exceptions: Visual Art: We do accept art reprints. Art is considered a reprint if it has been published anywhere online including but not limited to Patreon, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Art Station, Deviant Art, personal or artist websites, etc. Translations: We accept translated works that have been previously published in languages other than English. If accepted, translated stories that have never appeared before in English will be paid $.08 per word. We do not accept submissions of work in languages other than English at this time, though we hope to in the future. We do not accept multiple submissions within a single category. However, you may enter one submission in each available category (fiction, poetry, art, and nonfiction) per open submission period. If you are submitting work in more than one category (fiction, poetry, nonfiction or art), please use each of the separate submission portals for your submission in each category. We generally don’t provide feedback on submissions. We’d love to, but we get so many submissions that it’s just not possible. Please include the following with your submission:​​​ Attach your stories, articles, or poems in .doc, .docx. or .pdf format.Use .png or .jpeg attachments for visual art with a DPI of 300 or higher.We love to amplify voices from marginalized communities that are most impacted by climate change and other global problems. In fact, it’s one of the key characteristics of solarpunk. If you are part of such a community then we strongly encourage you not only to submit your work, but also to include one or more of the following tags with your submission as part of your cover letter:

#ownvoices#indigenous#globalsouth#bipoc#lgbtqia#actuallyautistic#neurodivergent#disabled#translation We realize there are many other tags that could be included, but we have to stop at some point or the list would be dozens of pages long. If you are unsure of which tag(s) you should use, feel free to inquire at info@solarpunkmagazine.com. Themed issue submission windows: Solarpunk Myths – What myths will be important to communities in solarpunk futures? What function and role will those myths play in people’s individual lives and in community life? Please include #SolarpunkMyths in your submission cover letter. Colorful Roots – Our second all BIPOC issue will publish in July 2023, and will have a special submission window to be announced soon. *Please include #ColorfulRoots in your submission cover letter. If we accept your work, we ask that you not publish it elsewhere or post it online prior to or within six months after publication in Solarpunk Magazine. For the rights we are asking for and other conditions, please see our publishing contract. We are a professional rate paying market as defined by the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA). Our current rates are: $.08 per word for fiction ($100 minimum) $40 per poem $75 for for nonfiction $100 for reprint cover art, $200 for original unpublished cover art $50 for reprint interior art, $100 for original unpublished interior art Payments are made via PayPal. If you live in an area where PayPal is not available, then we will work with you to make other arrangements. We strive to ensure that our magazine and website is a space where everyone in our reading and broader communities feels welcome and safe. In that spirit we strictly enforce the following content guidelines: We also do not accept work that: is discriminatory or derogatory against communities that are and have historically been marginalized disparages sex workers, or that glorifies or sexualizes violence against them glorifies or sexualizes violence against people of marginalized communities reduces people from marginalized communities to objects or otherwise dehumanizes them. glorifies or sexualizes violence against children contains graphic abuse of animals We understand that stories and art may include elements of these things in service of critiquing present day society. But there is what we believe to be a clear difference between these elements being present in a work and work glorifying or advocating for these things. Solarpunk Magazine reserves the right to place content warning notices on any work that we accept for publishing if we feel it is warranted in order to ensure our magazine is a welcoming and safe space for all our readers. We will work with artists and authors as needed to determine the appropriate and correct content warnings, if any. If you are not okay with this, then we respect that and encourage you to submit work that won’t require content warnings. If your submission is accepted, a copy of our publishing contract will be emailed to you to read, sign, and return. Fiction Our fiction editors are interested in works that stir readers with themes of defiance, change, and achievement. This effect isn’t likely to come via high concept utopias alone, but rather, from vibrant characters whose struggles affect the reader. Speculative elements should be apparent but not dominating; our disbelief suspended not by necessity, but immersion. Any genre of science fiction, interstitial fiction, magic realism, or fantasy has potential as a solarpunk forum—we welcome robots and elves with equal excitement. Basics: 1500-7500 words Please use standard manuscript formatting (12 pt Times New Roman or similar font, double spacing, 1″ margins, page number at the top of each page, indented paragraphs, no extra space between paragraphs). Poetry Send up to 5 poems or 5 pages of poems, whichever is shorter. Prose poetry is fine, but if you are in doubt, submit it as fiction.

If possible, please remove all identifying information (your name, email address, etc.) from your submission file. Your submission won’t be rejected if your manuscript is not anonymous but we prefer to form our initial impressions on the work alone. What our poetry editor, J.D. Likes: Above all else, I value style and form, no matter which kind you choose. There needs to be a certain level of polish to the poetry you submit to us. Your ideas may be interesting, revelatory even, but if the quality isn’t there, then I’m afraid it’s not for me. Also, don’t worry about submitting poetry that rhymes, though I do adore that kind of poetry, and it’s always a delight to read a masterful modern one. Some classic speculative poems I enjoy: Echoes from the Outer Dark by Robert E. Howard Goblin Fruit by Christina Rossetti Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came by Robert Browning Because I could not conquer death by Emily Dickinson Recent speculative poetry I’ve enjoyed: Rochambeau by Jessica Lévai Elegy for a Poet by Herb Kauderer Field Guide To The Invasive Species of Minnestoa by Amelia Gorman Nonfiction For non-fiction submissions, we’re interested in reviews, interviews, reports, articles, essays, and general audience-aimed overviews of academic papers relevant to solarpunk. Tell us about some cool science or technology that’s going to help us rewild the world, remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, or clean up our agricultural act. Weave us the stories of real people who are up to amazing things or of real projects that are underway to help create the world we want to live in. Give us a critical review (of a work, a set of works, or a topic) that rises high enough for a view of the forest as well as the trees. Stake an interesting claim and then convince us that you’re onto something. The possibilities are broad. Interesting is important. Thought-provoking is encouraged. So is keeping it kind. And, again, relevance to solarpunk is key. Some basics: 1- Please don’t send us your solarpunk manifesto or ‘What is Solarpunk’ article. We aren’t interested in publishing those at this time. 2- Non-fiction submissions should be 1000-2000 words long, clearly written, and accessible to general readers. Jargon, when it is necessary at all, should be clearly defined in the text or in footnotes. 3- We prefer to read things in standard manuscript format (double spacing, 1″ margins, page number at the top of each page). Footnotes should be used sparingly, endnotes not at all. Hyperlinks are great and a handful of references for further reading are fine, but not necessary. These are not meant to be academic publications! 4- Any accompanying photos, figures, or other graphics should be the digital equivalent of camera-ready and when the manuscript author does not own the rights to the image, it is the author’s responsibility to secure permission for the publication of the image(s), with any costs to be borne by the author. 5- Submissions should be in English, but either British, Canadian, or American spellings are okay, so long as the manuscript sticks to one style or the other. Please note that our unlike our other departments, nonfiction is always open for submissions. Thanks and good luck! Art We accept art submissions for both cover art and interior magazine art. We are only interested in art that qualifies as solarpunk. If you think your work qualifies, but are unsure, submit and we’ll review your work. We are not accepting submissions of AI generated art. To be considered for cover art, work must be portrait orientation, 8.5×11 inches or a larger equivalent, and at least 300 DPI. For interior art, we also want at least 300 DPI, but orientation and size are open. We prefer work with color, but we do also accept B&W submissions. We’re particularly interested in solarpunk art that features living beings, both human and nonhuman, rather than just architecture and technology scenes. To have your art considered by our art team, please use the Art Submissions Portal to submit a link to your solarpunk art portfolio.

Your portfolio folder should indicate which works are reprints, and which are unpublished. Via: Solar Punk Magazine.

[solarpunkpresentspodcast]

3.7: Come Play in Solarpunk’s Future Garden, With John Threat

Today's episode features Christina's chat with renowned hacktivist, writer/director, and creative futurist John Threat about his Zukunft Garden art installation, his journey through cyberpunk to solarpunk, and AI art. Tune in now!

Between September 15 to 24, 2023, you can go be a part of renowned hacktivist, writer/director, and creative futurist John Threat’s Zukunft Garden—a solarpunk future garden—that’s part of Vision2030’s Earth Edition festival at CalArts, in Santa Clarita, near Los Angeles. Join us for this episode, where John talks to Christina about this social art installation, what it means and can signify for…

[runicmagitek]

Many thanks to @moogleterra for tagging me in this year in review thing! Time to go over my favorite fics I shared in 2023! (not tagging anyone, but if you read this and want to play along, consider yourself tagged!)

Like a Broken Record

I wrote this at the beginning of 2022 and was super nervous about sharing it, mostly RE: shipping Takatoshi with someone who wasn't Okino, but I was both really proud of how the fic turned out and the lovely support from everyone who read it!

To Cultivate Anew

I just had a lot of thoughts about the physical marks Throné and Castti acquired that link to their trauma and how utterly beautiful it would be if they got tattoos together to cover up those marks.

High Score

I loved all the keinatsubj fics I wrote for polyship week, but this one was my favorite!! Not only was it fun to envision the summer festival they attend, but all the delicious pre-poly feelings with Natsuno being engaged to Keitaro while also seeing BJ in his human form for the first time were a BLAST to unpack. Plus garmmy's art for it is SO CUTE.

In Good Company

I wrote this for a server exchange and loved exploring the complicated sentiments around working for a shitty corporation, but you've got bills to pay. And nudging Reeves and his personal assistant closer and closer was utterly delicious too!

What Leads You Here

I'll never shut up about this fic. I'm really proud of this one 😭 it's the super angsty post-canon story I wanted, but couldn't find anywhere after I beat the game. But now it exists and it warms my heart to know others enjoyed it too.

On Your Honor

Star's medieval AU gave me severe brainrot and I couldn't help but write a follow-up where these two take their noble/knight secret relationship to the next level.

Anchor Point

Again, I loved all the Ignatz week fics I wrote, but this one is my favorite. Just exploring his relationship with his family and what home means to him, all while he learns archery.

Light the Way Home

Some missing scene feels from Terence's POV when all the Twinside bullshit goes down 😭 really happy with how it turned out!

Your North Star

I wrote this for the Tifa Zine! Just some bittersweet feels with the group as they set up their camp, share stories about the stars, and support one another.

Coming Out of My Cage (And I've Been Doing Just Fine)

Another server exchange fic! This could've easily been a 50k novel and I did my best to shove it into a 3k ish oneshot. I love a good AU and reimagining Legend of Zelda in a cyberpunk vs solarpunk setting was so much fun.

Random Access Memories

And another server exchange fic, but I've had this idea in my head since 2021. So glad I could finally bring it to life, bc there's literally nothing out there exploring Natsuno's grief mid-canon over losing someone very special to her.

[angeliqueshelleyartist]

Promotional Video

I compiled all my finished assets into a video promoting my project and myself as a practitioner. I am pleased to formally introduce my Major Study Project: SolarPunk

The complete art book will soon be available here: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/lGxddY

List of Third Party Assets

Unreal Engine 5 Level

MYTHRA TECH. (2022). Mediterranean Coast. [Online]. Unreal Engine Marketplace. Available at: https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/3a23dac323e646f38e2c7a744236478e?sessionInval [Accessed 29 July 2024].

3D Assets

Adobe Substance 3D Painter. (n/d). Smart Materials Library. [Online]. . Available at: https://substance3d.adobe.com/assets [Accessed 26 August 2024]. 

AlexDang. (2023). Scud ( Ballistic missile ). [Online]. Sketchfab. Available at: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/scud-ballistic-missile-30cf91617bad4a4bb07d0856ccd55ff0 [Accessed 22 August 2024].

Martinez, G. (2020). FUNCTIONAL PROPELLER FOR PLASTIC DRYER. [Online]. Sketchfab. Available at: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/functional-propeller-for-plastic-dryer-9a614d23ce254e2b8b5f49b1b5ef8 [Accessed 22 August 2024].

snrnsrk5. (2023). Soviet Heavy Tanks. [Online]. Sketchfab. Available at: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/soviet-heavy-tanks-4ef5ac2028c0439b806a1c3fe298e67b [Accessed 22 August 2024].

videoanimateitalia. (2024). jet engine. [Online]. Sketchfab. Available at: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/jet-engine-f5010f64424e415183c110c8e0132017 [Accessed 22 August 2024].

Assets by Quixel (Epic Games)

3D Assets

Binoculars leather case, candle Holders, concrete planter,  Nordic forest rock, Medieval Banquet (all food assets),  metal watering can, old Book, old cushion,  small concrete planter,  stone mortar, stone pestal, wax candle,  wooden stool.

Plants

Boston fern, bracken fern, broom creeper, common coleus,  common fern, crownbeard,  mustard, rhazya, thyme.

Decals

Antique rug

Surfaces

Carpet_pgwfnwp0

Epic Games. (n/d). Quixel Bridge. [Online]. . Available at: https://quixel.com/bridge [Accessed 22 August 2024].

Photographs

Adobe Stock. (n/d). Sky Replacement Stock Images (Auto Sky Replacement). [Online]. . Available at: https://stock.adobe.com/uk/ [Accessed 22 August 2024].

macrovector. (n/d). Realistic set of gun flashes with fire sparkles and smoke isolated on black background vector illustration. [Online]. FreePik. Available at: https://www.freepik.com/free-vector/realistic-set-gun-flashes-with-fire-sparkles-smoke-isolated-black-background-vector-illustration_26764910.htm#query=muzzle%20flash&position=4&from_view=keyword&track=ais_hybrid&uuid=f1ce68de-e84c-440c-ab67-7a6e2b2ce4c7 [Accessed 26 August 2024].

Nudaveritas, S. (2023). a river running through a lush green valley. [Online]. Unsplash. Available at: https://unsplash.com/photos/a-river-running-through-a-lush-green-valley-1Ez51O4Otsg [Accessed 26 August 2024].

Quinan, M. (2015). Northern lights during night time. [Online]. Unsplash. Available at: https://unsplash.com/photos/northern-lights-during-night-time-R3pUGn5YiTg [Accessed 26 August 2024].

Walczuk, M. (2017). green aurora. [Online]. Unsplash. Available at: https://unsplash.com/photos/green-aurora-asc8mCGtSew [Accessed 26 August 2024].

Widodo, P. (2022). The hardest part of being candle is you must burn yourself out to light others. [Online]. Unsplash. Available at: https://unsplash.com/photos/a-lit-candle-in-the-dark-with-a-dark-background-sbOnhWT5UGA [Accessed 26 August 2024].

VectorStock. (n/d). Simple green and blue aurora logo modern vector image. [Online]. Available at: https://www.vectorstock.com/royalty-free-vector/simple-green-and-blue-aurora-logo-modern-vector-44315782 [Accessed 28 August 2024].

Promotional Video

Busti. (2019). Flip Dot Display Demo. [Audio]. [Online]. YouTube. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YPhtsflhf0 [Accessed 26 August 2024].

Futurescapes - Sci Fi Ambience. (2023). Arrival: Relaxing Alien Sci Fi Music. [Music]. [Online]. YouTube. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fu6soG89v8&t=3s [Accessed 26 August 2024].