Phoebe Wagner

In March, Bookriot posted an essay meant to introduce solarpunk to their audience. While I always enjoy seeing solarpunk reach more people, the way this essay framed the genre was disheartening and undercut much of the radical potenial that keeps me reading, writing, and making solarpunk. So, I wanted to point out somethings I found…

In a few months, I’ll be starting a new semester teaching creative writing at Lycoming College, where I graduated from. More importantly, I was so mentored and trained at that school, that stepping into my fiction professor’s shoes is both an honor and a little nerve-wracking, mainly because I will be a different type of…

In one of my favorite books, The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin, her invented anarchist language has no word for work. Instead, it’s the same word for “play.” If a task is pure drudgery, then there’s another word for that which isn’t associated with the word for work/play. From a young age, I decided…

Hi folks, In chatting with fellow writers, I’ve realized that my love of fight scenes and my enjoyment of writing them is unique and that, much like sex scenes, plenty of people try to avoid writing fight scenes or feel like they don’t know how. So, I wanted to break down how I think about…

Hi folks, I just wanted to get a few thoughts down on falling in love with your work and on the rejection that inevitably comes. In 2018, I started querying a novel that was written out of grief for the climate crisis and the 2016 election. As you might expect, I loved that novel and…