We Were in It

Lisa Moore is the author of the short story collections Something for Everyone, Open, and Degrees of Nakedness and the novels Alligator, Caught, February, and This Is How We Love, as well as the young adult novel Flannery. She has co-edited, along with Dede Crane, 24 True Stories About Birth by Canadian Authors, co-edited The Democracy Cookbook with Alex Marland, and co-edited, with Stephen Crocker, Muskrat Falls: How A Mega Dam Became a Predatory Formation. Lisa has also edited four anthologies of short fiction and is a co-librettist for the opera February, based on her novel by the same name. She teaches creative writing in the English Department at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador.Sheena Wilson is Professor of Media, Writing, and Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta. She is the co-founder of the international Petrocultures Research Group, and principal investigator of Just Powers. Her research interests involve an interdisciplinary and intersectional approach to studying how the extractivist worldview not only contributes to climate change but allows for the exploitation of gendered, classed, and racialized people. A commitment to feminism and decolonization as method and praxis as well as object of study informs her current research and all of her ongoing research partnerships under the banner of Just Powers. Her publications include, among many others, the edited collection Petrocultures: Oil, Politics, Cultures with Adam Carlson and Imre Szeman (2017) and the short film Petro-Mama: Mothering in a Crude World (2015). Her monograph in process is entitled New Logics for the Climate Crisis: Deep Energy Literacy.Kamei Lim is an artist practicing in Edmonton, Alberta, in Treaty 6 territory. She holds a BFA in Art and Design from the University of Alberta. With the use of vivid colour palettes and dreamscape imagery, she explores themes of memory, superstition, and culture. Kamei works primarily in painting, printmaking, and book arts.

• 1 INTRODUCTION3 STORIES5 No Speculation in Cree by Janice Makokis6 Out of Gas by Sheena Wilson11 The House in St. John's Wood by Caitlin Fisher12 Thirty-Seven Years, Her Neighbour's Version by Sourayan Mookerjea15 Telegram Conversations by Soheila Esfahani16 Orange Tarp by Patrick Mahon19 Protest by Ruth Beer20 Montreal Ice Storm 2030 by Satoshi Ikeda23 The Snowman by Scott Smallwood26 Mountain Man Brings Us Creator's Gift by Kurtis McAdam30 Alone and in Trouble by Sheena Wilson35 A Pandemic Love Letter by Natalie Loveless39 The Sound by Lisa Moore42 Service Station by Sheena Wilson45 The Little Things You Do Together by Luke Johnson51 PEI III, Leviathan Odyssey by Sourayan Mookerjea55 Calf by Lisa Moore59 The Mall and What's Next by Ruth Beer60 After the End by Evan Davies64 Blot Plot Neon Toxic by Sourayan Mookerjea67 Blue Room by Sheena Wilson70 Flower Power by Lisa Moore72 A Crisis of Connection by Natalie Loveless75 Black Period by Patrick Mahon76 Robin and Thunderbird by Kurtis McAdam79 The Goddesses Must be Angry by Sheena Wilson80 The Shack by Scott Smallwood83 The Spill by Lisa Moore89 The Site by Satoshi Ikeda92 Hands of an Angel by Sourayan Mookerjea98 Miasma by Sheena Wilson105 Traces by Soheila Esfahani106 Ecstatic Forms of Disappearance by Luke Johnson109 Out of Magic by Caitlin Fisher115 From the Sky by Scott Smallwood119 Rescue Mission by Satoshi Ikeda120 Northwest Company Town by Ruth Beer124 Power Ball by Patrick Mahon127 All That It Wasn't by Sheena Wilson128 Mask, Exploded by Lisa Moore131 Convoy by Sheena Wilson142 Snakes and Ladders by Sourayan Mookerjea147 Rainbow by Janice Makokis149 PROMPTS by Lisa Moore150 Dialogue Prompt152 Voice Prompt154 Point-of-View Prompt156 Ghost Story Prompt159 Character Prompt160 AFTERWORD163 CONTRIBUTORS167 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

"The writers manage to hone in on the people at the centre of the crisis, their complexity, complicity and relationships. Under the guidance of Moore and Wilson, We Were In It is a fascinating survey of the cli-fi imaginings of a diverse group of thinkers." - Erica Butler, Atlantic Books Today