#Writer of #climatefiction & #weird fiction, World Fantasy Award nominee | German in #SriLanka 🇱🇰 | Also working on #climatechange: @DMombauer
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I am untangling my #writing & professional accounts!
▶️ If you are interested in my weird, experimental, speculative writing, this is the place to be, please follow 👍
▶️ If you are interested in #climatechange, risk, #migration, ecosystems etc., please go here: @DMombauer
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➡️ We encourage submissions from a wide variety of voices in a wide variety of forms.
Using the storylines of @ResilienceFron1's 8️⃣ pathways as a guide, stories can offer glimpses of desirable futures.
More information on the pathways here: resiliencefrontiers.org/path…
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📘 Submissions of short fiction (500-3,500 words) will be accepted until end of September. 1️⃣ entry per participant.
Selected pieces will be showcased at @UNFCCC #COP30 in Brazil 🌎 in November 2025!
@sfwa @StelliformPress @WorldFantasy25 @EcofictionLit @CANIntl @youngo_unfccc
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🗺💫 What will the future of resilience look like?
@SLYCANTrust & @ResilienceFron1 are jointly hosting a #climatefiction contest: “Glimpses of Transformation: Creative Approaches for Crossing the Frontiers of Resilience.”
➡️ Submit until end of Sep here: shorturl.at/TQT1b
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1/6 It was an absolute pleasure to co-edit this special edition of Lumpen journal in collaboration with the Class Work Project. Centred around the theme of the just transition, it features writers from across the Global North and Global South...
📚 Besides English & German, my stories have also appeared in #translation: a small series.
5️⃣ "幽灵船" (Phobosteus), #Chinese 🇨🇳 translation in @faaoffice. One of my "lost stories"--published online, but I can no longer locate it.
@sfwa @BritFantasySoc @WeWriteFiction @fandsf
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📣 My new @FT_SriLanka column focuses on the 🔑 role of #climate #communicators & innovative approaches to outreach & communication:
ft.lk/columns/Climate-change…
@ClimaComms @SLYCANTrust @DMombauerWriter @AdaptXChange @UNFCCC @CANIntl @YaleClimateComm @LossandDamage @Adapt_Community
📚 Besides English & German, my stories have also appeared in #translation: a small series.
4️⃣ Tõlkejutt: Tolmutuuker (The Dust Bathynaut), #Estonian 🇪🇪, in Reaktor:
ulmeajakiri.ee/?tolkejutt-to…
@sfwa @MicroSFF @MithilaReview @WeWriteFiction @GSFWC @BritFantasySoc @Indie_SciFi
➡️ The English original of "The Dust Bathynaut" is available in my #weirdfiction #chapbook "The House of the Dark Whale," together with other dark & weird stories: amazon.com/House-Dark-Whale-…
@SCiFiNetwork_ @scifi_writers @FantasyMagazine @GNutsofHorror @ink_horror @HorrorWriters
📚 Besides English & German, my stories have also appeared in #translation: a small series.
3️⃣ "Un Communicador con Objectos Animados" (A Communicator With Animate Objects), #Spanish in El futuro de ayer, hoy
amazon.com.mx/dp/B08F4N9XXJ
@fandsf @MithilaReview @BritFantasySoc @sfwa
Sent by the Precogniscience Exalted, a specialist communicator enters a maze of conspiracies as he dives into the consciousness of an animate temple floating in space.
➡️ The English version is published as well: amazon.com/dp/1910910120
@apexmag @SciFiPrompt @WeWriteFiction
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📣 How can we communicate the #climatecrisis in #creative & #innovative ways?
▶️ @ClimaComms explores this, f.i through:
💬 Climate 2.0
📸 #Lossanddamage photography
👕 Multimedia #fashion exhibition
🎬 #Filmmaking
📰 #Media & journalism
📚 #Climatefiction
🎶 #Music
🎭 #Theater
📚 Besides English & German, my stories have also appeared in #translation: a small series.
2️⃣ "Uppumise tunne" (The Sensation of Drowning) in #Estonian 🇪🇪 in Algernon: algernon.ee/node/1065
@BritFantasySoc @GSFWC @FictionUtopia @fandsf @sf_jahr @DailySF @sfwa @FictionClimate
"Land, air, & water are integrated into a single, completely co-dependent ecosystem, covering the planet from pole to pole--but there is more needed than that, more space, more life forms, more everything."
A vision of endless growth, from pre- to posthistory, all in 1200 words.
▶️ This #scifi #shortstory is available in English as well in the "Titanic Terastructures" anthology edited by @JayHengePubKB's Jessica Augustsson: amazon.co.uk/dp/B09LGK5CH4
@sfwa @SCiFiNetwork_ @Indie_SciFi @SciFiPrompt @scifi_shorts @scifi_writers @WritersofScifi @WeWriteFiction
📚 Besides English & German, my stories have also appeared in #translation: a small series.
1️⃣ "Călătoriile melodice ale unui om care vinde vieți" (The Melodic Travels of a Man Selling Lives) in #Helion, #Romania's 🇷🇴 premier #scifi mag.
helionsf.ro/2021/10/proza/tr…
@sfwa @GSFWC
➡️ Story follows a man who smiles & sells lives. After losing his job, he hears a haunting melody that he pursues for the rest of his life, moving from star to star while his smile grows bigger & ever bigger.
⬆️ Link in 1st tweet
@WritersofScifi @BritFantasySoc @WeWriteFiction
🙏 As always, please check out my 📚 English debut #novella "The House of #Drought" (@StelliformPress), a #weird #climatefiction #hauntedhouse story set in #SriLanka 🇱🇰 (@WorldFantasy23 Award Finalist)!
stelliform.press/index.php/p…
@HorrorWriters @ink_horror @HorrorSpotlight @sfwj