ECO25: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction

Release Date: November 17th, 2026

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A must-read showcase of the best climate fiction, eco-horror, and nature-based science fiction and fantasy published around the world every year.

ECO: The Year’s Best Speculative Ecofiction explores humanity’s deep relationships with other species and our communal fears, grief, and passion as we try to protect our natural world—all through the lens of the fantastic.

Featuring established authors, award winners, and rising stars, each volume forms a unique snapshot of how some of the most imaginative writers on the planet are engaging with this extraordinary time in Earth’s natural history. 

In putting together this annual anthology, a team of passionate judges read hundreds of ecofiction works published in collections, magazines, and journals around the world, narrowing them down a shortlist of the very best. The 24 most compelling, emotionally impactful, and thought-provoking stories are then selected as finalists. 

ECO25, the second in the series, features a range of beautiful and evocative stories, including works by talented authors such as Ally Wilkes, DaVaun Sanders, G. Willow Wilson, Michael Capobianco, Rebecca Campbell, Ruthanna Emrys, and Samir Sirk Morató, among many others.

Table of Contents

"Antigone, But With Spiders" — Syr Hayati Beker
"When the Fox-Bells Ring" — Ally Wilkes
"Lolo's Last Run" — E.M. Kerkman
"A Hole Cut in the Wall of the World" — Rebecca Campbell
"Kindling" — Somto Ihezue
"Banded Iron" — T.K. Rex
"All the World is Fog" — DaVaun Sanders
"We Will Not Dream of Corals" — Mário Coelho
"MALO MALO MALO MALO" — Louis Inglis Hall
"The Oneiromantic Sheep" — Frank Baird Hughes
"Abatement" — Max Wheeler
"Invasive Species" — Mary Kuryla
"Exhibition" — Lu Xu
"greasy luck" — Samir Sirk Morató
"The Iceberg" — Michael Capobianco
"Butterfly Pavilion" — G. Willow Wilson
"We Used to Wake to Song" — Leah Ning
"Herdhunters" — Mike Robinson
"All That Means or Mourns" — Ruthanna Emrys
"Mothership Comes to the Heart of the Ocean" — Gu Shi, translated by Ken Liu
"The Piano Player Has Eight Arms" — Íde Hennessy
"Our Continuity, Each of Us Raindrops" — Parker M. O'Neill
"The Endstate of History" — Bernie Jean Schiebeling 
"The Order of Soil" — Tara Labovich

About the Editor

Marissa van Uden grew up in New Zealand and now lives in Vermont, in a little cabin in the woods. She loves wild things, night hikes, and eerie forests. Her anthology credits include the Strange Microfiction series and The Off-Season: An Anthology of Coastal New Weird. Her short stories have appeared in Vastarian Literary Journal, Dark Matter Magazine, Zero Dark Thirty, and Los Suelos. She can sometimes be found at @marissavu.bsky.social or IG (@marissa.vu and @violetlichenbooks).