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Craft Exercise: Defamiliarize the Normal
What if we imagined different family structures? Writing the Resistance: Abolish the Family In Andor season two, Saw Gerrera has a great line: “Revolution is not for the sane.” While just being badass on the outset, the line has a more practical purpose—revolution defamiliarizes the normal. To be revolutionary, one cannot fit into what much…
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Writing Resistance
Craft essays on the power of storytelling. Partially inspired by my love of Andor, I’m going to write some craft essays with exercises on the power of storytelling and using radical storytelling to create better worlds/visions. Below is the first post, and you can subscribe here. Writing the Resistance: Origin Stories Stories are what drew…
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Summer Events!
Hi folks, Just a quick note on where to find me this summer! On June 25th, I’ll be hosting a solarpunk workshop at one of my favorite bookstores, The Radical Cat in Reno, Nevada! From July 8-11, I’ll be hanging out at ASLE and presenting a paper. From August 12-16, I’ll be at WorldCon in…
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Late Summer Update
Here in Pennsylvania, the nights are cooling off, and it’s a season of windows open and airing out the house after the summer heat. The semester has started (three weeks in already!?), and I haven’t quite found my footing. I had the goal of writing quarterly blog posts for updates or just little notes, but…
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2023: Debut Year
Wow, what a year! I had three books come out in 2023: When We Hold Each Other Up (novella), Fighting for the Future: Cyberpunk and Solarpunk Tales (edited anthology), and A Shot of Gin (debut novel). I couldn’t be more thankful for all the readers, people who purchased my books, universities and bookstores that hosted…
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Phoebe Wagner 