#Writer of #climatefiction & #weird fiction, World Fantasy Award nominee | German in #SriLanka 🇱🇰 | Also working on #climatechange: @DMombauer

Joined October 2020
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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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URBAN PATCHWORK WEIRD #PitDark #A #H #UF A cab driver looks for her missing sister. A rail worker hunts beasts in the tram tunnels. A girl explores abandonments. 12 protagonists in a vast city on the borders of Eurasia, trying to escape a flood or build new lives in the tangle.
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Climate change meets horror meets hyperlink fiction URBAN PATCHWORK WEIRD A parish of the drowned, walking to the flowering gallows. 12 protagonists across society in a fictional Eurasian metropolis, trapped between the rising sea and the dream-like tangle. #PitDark #A #H #UF
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The tangle looms in the city's heart while the nightmare grounds rise against its shores. 12 interwoven stories in an urban patchwork with characters from all walks of life. Trapped between climate change & an unmade future, everyone tries to find a way out. #PitDark #A #H #UF
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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...
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📚 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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📣 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
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📚 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
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"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.
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➡️ 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
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