Monique Chénier – Author in Evolution
It's time to step out of the tradition of catastrophe and reimagine the world.
This excerpt comes from a series of chapters I wrote during Labour Day Weekend 2020 as part of The 3-Day Novel Contest. It was inspired by a few friends who proposed I write about a group of women living in a forest and suggested titles like The Hidden Resilience of Women and A Journey Worth … Continue reading The Elora Sky Sanctuary
In 1939, J.R.R. Tolkien, author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, and the father of Modern Fantasy, presented his essay “On Fairy-stories” at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. In the essay, Tolkien attempted to answer the following questions: What are fairy-stories? What are their origins? and What is their function … Continue reading Tolkien’s Eucatastrophic Tale: A Lifeline for Today’s Youth
The first instalment of the Seeding Change Series, this climate fiction piece set 30 years in the future explores what could happen when a heavily mined city blossoms into a model of environmental and social renewal. June 30, 2055 — I feel as though Timmins has gotten bigger in the past few years, although I know … Continue reading Seeding Change – From Mines to Miracles: Timmins’ Golden Transformation
What if, instead of spurring us to save the world, the post-apocalyptic tale has become a self-fulfilling prophecy? Images of the last human lurching across a burning, barren landscape or standing atop a mountain of concrete rubble have become so commonplace they now haunt our collective consciousness. Many of us carry their loneliness in our … Continue reading The Failure of Dystopian Literature
I learned about Rob Hopkins and the Transition Movement in 2018 through a friend who defined herself as a regenerate. I can’t remember which podcast or video she pointed me to that formally introduced me to his work, but I will be forever grateful for the discovery. While reading his book The Transition Companion: Making … Continue reading Hopeful Narratives: Transforming Our Future with Imagination
I think we are most ourselves when we float along the stream of life in a state of non-doing, in a state of allowing, of not trying to control the outcome of anything and with no destination in mind other than a gentle idea of how we want to feel when we arrive. I know I … Continue reading We Are. Here.
Monique Chénier - Author in Evolution 