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We’re running a poll to evaluate some potential future programming.Continue reading “What Solarpunk Events Would You Attend?”

January 2026 marks the 5th anniversary of Solarpunk Magazine‘s firstContinue reading “Author Pay Raise and Solarpunk Horror Themed Issue”

For as long as people have gathered around fires, underContinue reading “Introducing Solarpunk Story Circles: Where Imagination Becomes Action”

In 2026, Solarpunk Magazine will publish a landmark series ofContinue reading “Announcing Radical Hope from Gaza: A 2026 Solarpunk Magazine Series by Aya Al-Hattab”

We’re thrilled to share some big news: Solarpunk Magazine hasContinue reading “Solarpunk Magazine is Now a Nonprofit!”

One of our editor-in-chiefs, Justine Norton-Kertson, is one of theContinue reading “Red Flag: A Horror Series Taking on Patriarchy and Empowering Women”

It’s World Environment Day, a day that encourages awareness andContinue reading “World Environment Day: Grow the Future With Us!”

We’re thrilled to announce our first-ever #ClifiPit event, an all-dayContinue reading “Climate Fiction Pitch Event #ClifiPit”

Solarpunk Magazine Issue #21 is Here Issue #21 is nowContinue reading “Issue #21 + Solarpunk Novelette”

On the latest episode of Demand Utopia: A Solarpunk Podcast, host Justine Norton-Kertson talks about the history and purpose of borders, then does a thought experiment imagining what a solarpunk future without borders—with freedom of movement—might look like. The transcript from that episode is below.

On the latest of Demand Utopia: A Solarpunk Podcast, host Justine Norton-Kertson reads a piece they read at a solarpunk reading event in March hosted by Accelerate L.A. The piece imagines what Los Angeles might be like a solarpunk future.

Authoritarian regimes always make moves early on to control education,Continue reading “DEI, Education, & a Solarpunk Future”

The latest episode of Demand Utopia: A Solarpunk Podcast isContinue reading “Aging with Dignity in a Solarpunk Future”

Issue #20 is now available. If you’re not a subscriberContinue reading “Solarpunk Magazine Issue #20 and Latest Podcast Episode”

This week on Demand Utopia: A Solarpunk Podcast, part 2Continue reading “New Podcast Episode: Solarpunk vs. Imperialism Pt. 2”

This week, in the first of a two part episodeContinue reading “Solarpunk vs. Imperialism: New Podcast Episode”

We’ve relaunched our podcast with the first episode in sinceContinue reading “New Demand Utopia Podcast Episodes!”

In our January 2025 newsletter, we bring you updates on our latest issue, our podcast relaunch, and the latest winning stories from Grist’s Imagine 2200 short story competition.

Interviewed by Justine Norton-Kertson For Issue #18 of Solarpunk Magazine,Continue reading “The Working: An Author Interview with BrightFlame”

We can’t even begin to tell you all how muchContinue reading “Funded! 3 Days Left to Support Solarpunk Magazine 2025!”

We’re thrilled to bring you this update from Grist’s ImagineContinue reading “New Book from Grist’s Imagine 2200”

We’d like to share our appreciation for those who haveContinue reading “A Big Thank You”

It’s official. We went live at 8am this morning forContinue reading “Now Live: Solarpunk Magazine 2025 Crowd Funder”

The crowd funding campaign for City of Hope, a solarpunkContinue reading “The Caretaker: a New City of Hope Character Book Sneak Peek”

New Micro Fiction Published There are now four new solarpunkContinue reading “City of Hope Day 1 Backer Perk, Micro Fiction, Next Submission Window”

We’re only three weeks away from the October 1st launch ofContinue reading “City of Hope RPG Character Archetype Sneak Peek”

Issue #17 Preorder, Cover and Table of Contents Reveal IssueContinue reading “September Newsletter: Issue 17 Cover Reveal, Imagine 2200, RPG, and More”

Developed, illustrated, and written by Solarpunk Magazine editors-in-chief Brianna CastagnozziContinue reading “City of Hope Sneak Peek”

New Solarpunk Story from Grist Imagine a future where shimmering citiesContinue reading “New Solarpunk Story, Graphic Novel, and More!”

Backerkit’s Comictopia 2024 launches today, July 18 at 10 PacificContinue reading “Comictopia Solarpunk Graphic Novel Launches Today”

Dare to dream of a better future. Solarpunk meets modernContinue reading “Solarpunk Magick to Fight Climate Change & Save the World”

New Poetry Editor at Solarpunk Magazine We recently brought onContinue reading “New Poetry Editor, Next Podcast Date, Solarpunk Book, and More Inside!”

Welcome to the very first of our weekly poll setsContinue reading “First Solarpunk World-Building Project Polls Launched”

The second episode of our newly relaunched podcast, Solarpunk Futures:Continue reading “Demand Utopia! Podcast Episode 2”

Our podcast has been through a couple iterations over theContinue reading “We’ve Relaunched Our Podcast!”

Join a visionary community reimagining the future! We invite youContinue reading “Solarpunk Magazine World-Building Project”

New Issue 14 Release Date After some delays in ourContinue reading “Solarpunk Roleplaying and Issue 14”

Written by Michele Paris, illustrated by Lorenzo Livrieri, and basedContinue reading “Solarpunk Graphic Novel, Imagine 2200, and More!”

We were so elated when we heard our publisher, AndroidContinue reading “Let’s Support Nigerian Speculative Fiction!”

Happy New Year solarpunks! We’re moving into the new yearContinue reading “Solarpunk 2024!”

Queue the confetti!  We just reached our first crowd fundingContinue reading “Issue 15 Locked In!”

We’ve officially launched of our 2024 crowd funder! Having aContinue reading “Solarpunk Rising”

Recent and Upcoming Magazine Issues We released Issue #11: SolarpunkContinue reading “Solarpunk Magazine October 2023 Updates”

Earlier this month we sat down with author Xan vanContinue reading “Interview with Author Xan van Rooyen”

Solarpunk Magazine Issue #11 has published, and the pre-launch page for our 2024 crowd funder is now live!

STEEL TREE, by Sarena Ulibarri (SOLARPUNK SUMMERS, SOLARPUNK WINTERS, ANOTHER LIFE), is a science fiction Nutcracker retelling that flips the classic tale on its head…

Introducing Imagitopia—a fantasy fiction podcast and Android Press production.

Summer is here and the sun is hot! Smoke blanketsContinue reading “Issue 10, CliFiCon, 2024 Subscriptions, and more!”

The genre is characterized by its defiant spirit and its unflinching examination of gender and sexual identity in an oppressive society. However, at its heart, genderpunk is ultimately about hope, resistance, and the transformative power of self-expression, it’s about sheer and unabashed queer joy in the face of ideologies and institutions that want to wipe us out.

This past week our publisher, Android Press, revealed cover artContinue reading “Sauútiverse, Ninefox Gambit RPG, Ignyte Awards”

Nominations are open and tix available for CliFi Con `23.

Solarpunk Action Week (SAW) is a grassroots initiative that encourages people to engage in building a better world through eco-friendly, sustainable, social justice, and community-oriented activities in line with the solarpunk ethos.

Back the crowd funder today and the first ever cyberpunk-solarpunk short story anthology and companion TRPG!

How do people move around the solarpunk city?

Submissions are now open for Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors, Grist’s cli-fi contest.

Time to reveal the cover and table of contents for Solarpunk Magazine Issue #8, which releases on Tuesday, March 14, 2023.

Announcing the winners of our 2023 solarpunk art contest!

March 14 is the day we release Solarpunk Magazine IssueContinue reading “Huge Birthday Discount on 2023 Subscriptions This Weekend”

Fighting for the Future: Cyberpunk and Solarpunk Tales edited by Phoebe Wagner. Cover art by Hal Hefner. With stories by Cory Doctorow, Cynthia Zhang, Brent Lambert, Izzy Wasserstein, Kevin Wabaunsee, Rona Fernandez, Ai Jiang, and more

We’re thrilled to share the cover of an upcoming solarpunk novella from Stelliform Press: ANOTHER LIFE by Sarena Ulibarri.

Solarpunk Magazine is and remains a venue for human authors and artists to showcase their work.

If you’re an SFWA, SFPA, or Worldcon member, please consider nominating these amazing works, editors, and Solarpunk Magazine for relevant awards.

Only 16 hours left to get in on our 2023 Kickstarter! Get or renew your annual subscription at a discount and get extra perks.

If you can set aside the fact that it was made by Disney, a corporation that is decidedly not solarpunk in its real-word values and practices, then Strange World is a movie that will go down as a classic example of solarpunk animation and storytelling.

In the finale of Solarpunk Presents’ first-ever season, Ariel and Christina sit down to chat together about the Winter Solstice – Christina brings the scientific knowledge, Ariel brings a few book recommendations, and we discuss traditions of celebrating the return of the sun (as we’ve experienced them in the northern hemisphere). What are your favourite solstice traditions? Do you have recommendations of good solarpunk solstice stories to cozy up with? You can tweet at us @SolarpunkP or toot at us over on Mastodon @solarpunkpresents@climatejustice.rocks and let us know.

As the changing climate increasingly disrupts our ways of life, we have three choices: do nothing, attempt to stop or even reverse climate change, and/or figure out how to withstand it. Option one is a terrible idea and the ship has (mostly) sailed on option two. But option three is how we learn to live—and maybe even thrive—in our changing world. Part of this is figuring out how to convey the information that climate researchers have gathered to the people—like farmers, water managers, and urban planners—who need to make decisions now—about things like what crops to plant, where to get water for everyone and how to allocate it, and where to plant trees—for both the near and slightly distant future. In this episode, we’re talking to Professor Lisa Dilling, of the University of Colorado, Boulder, about building networks of people through which information about regional climate predictions can flow to people and information about the needs, predicaments, and questions of people can flow to climate researchers.

Our 2023 Kickstarter is now live. Get or renew your annual subscription today and get extra perks.

In today’s episode, Ariel chats with Heather MacKenzie, Executive Director of Solar Alberta, about transitioning to renewable energy deep in the heart of oil and gas country – in a just and sustainable way. Join us to learn about the history of the Solar Alberta organization, from its grassroots beginnings in neighbourhood solar projects, to dealing with (government-funded!) trolls online, all the way up to being the leading non-profit solar organization in Alberta and providing worker upskilling in a unique market.

The first 150 backers at our basic subscription tier get a 30% discount off the regular individual issue price plus other perks!

We should have gotten this story posted here over aContinue reading “September’s Winning Micro Fiction Story”

You don’t have to be a solarpunk—or a lunarpunk—to dream of bioluminescence, from twinkling phytoplankton to glowing lamps, phosphorescent fungi, and jellyfish lit up like space ships. To honor those dreams, we talked to Dr. Steve Haddock, Senior Scientist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) and leading expert on the things that glow, flash, and train headlights through the dark waters of the deep sea. Join us for this conversation about how bioluminescence works, what critters are capable of it and what they use it for, and whether or not our visions of bioluminescent street lamps stand a chance of coming true.

On this episode, Ariel sits down with Justine Norton-Kertson, editor of the forthcoming BIOLUMINESCENT: A LUNARPUNK ANTHOLOGY. They discuss what lunarpunk is in contrast to solarpunk, what inspired Justine to put together an anthology of lunarpunk fiction, and a sneak peek at some of the participating authors and the content that fans can expect to encounter!

The Demand Utopia Project is about the voices of everyday people, our voices, screaming for immediate change and fighting for our lives.

For faster growth, soak slips in fresh blood for at least 1-2 days before planting. The roots are attracted to the cloy of tender meat and the pheromones in sweat.

Solarpunk Presents Episode Five Solarpunk is all about vibrant, beautiful,Continue reading “Interview with Dr Jayde Lin Roberts about Saving Democracy through Urban Planning”

“You don’t just get to give up when things are hard. They’re hard for all of us, but we stay, and we help each other.”

Guerrilla gardening is a form of direct action used by solarpunks and other environmentalists to beautify neglected urban land and break down barriers between nature and city environments.

With their new anthology, Almanac for the Anthropocene, Wagner and Wieland continue to break new ground in the solarpunk genre. And like Sunvault, this new collection of work is sure to be a core piece of solarpunk’s standard reading curriculum.

In this episode of Solarpunk Presents, Ariel sits down for a virtual chat with Gabrielle Gelderman, an Edmonton, Alberta-based climate grief chaplain and climate justice organizer. They talk about what climate grief chaplaincy even is, the necessity of holding communal safe spaces for grieving especially for organizers, the necessity of feeling grief in order to feel more positive emotions, and climate despair as a corollary of solarpunk hope.

Bioluminescent, the first ever lunarpunk anthology, is now available for preorder+ on Kickstarter.

In this episode, Christina De La Rocha talks to Dr Hélène Jacot Des Combes, Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation Advisor to the National Disaster Management Office of the Republic of the Marshall Islands. They discuss sea level rise, infrastructure that can adapt to climate change, and land reclamation and protection. Dr Des Combes speaks passionately about reparations (for decades of colonialism, the US’s testing of atomic weapons on the atolls of the Marshall Islands, forced relocation of the Marshallese people, climate injustice, and much more) and advocates for the Marshallese peoples’ right to their own lands.

Rivers in Your Skin, Sirens in Your Hair by Marisca Pichette is a fantastic collection of magical poetry that every sci-fi/fantasy reader is going to want on the their shelves.

Upcoming events from Solarpunk Magazine and Android Press.

In this episode of Solarpunk Presents, Ariel Kroon sits down with John Okhiulu from the Decolonizing Wealth Project to talk about the role of philanthropy in addressing racial capitalism and reparations, and how the DWP is working to change the narrative around charitable giving and wealth-transfer.

a quick and action packed read following an important transition in the life of General Daynja Édo, which touches on issues of empire and colonization, and complicity within systems of violent domination.

The Kickstarter is live for (Re)Living Mythology a collection of Black magical stories & poetry produced by Voodoonauts and published by Android Press.

What happened to my mother’s home will never happen again. She, and others like her, made sure of that.

The three-act structure and the Hero’s Journey are so much of what we’re trained to look at as a story, but it’s really just looking at story through one very small lens.

Another year brings us a slew of DC animated films that skip theatres to end up on digital platforms and the ever-fading home video format.

The Toronto Star calls Sam Maggs the “ambassador of the Canadian fan culture scene”, but that title betrays the versatile talent behind some of the biggest franchises around.

“I knew I had something special when I kept pulling the alpha off the shelf for one more prompt because I was just having so much fun with the settings I was creating.”

Molly Ostertag is an acclaimed American cartoonist whose work seeks to represent the best of the queer experience.

“Balikbayan” by Nadine Aurora Tabing

Coming out of nowhere to the awe of cinephiles all over the Arab world, Alephia 2053 is the first animated feature film in Arabic made exclusively for adults.

Dental Hygiene on Orbital Station #57, by Meg Murray

Help make the first annual Utopia Awards & Climate Fiction Conference a reality!

Solarpunk Now! is a science/tech and politics podcast highlighting radical ideas, projects, and theories for a brighter future.

The first annual Utopia Awards & Climate Fiction Conference, #CliFiCon22, presented by Android Press, has been announced!