The Dark Mountain Project
The Dark Mountain Project, Antonio Serrano Nieto, Rupert Read, Charlotte Du Cann, Aliaksandr Zherdzeu, Stephanie Krzywonos, Daniela Kato, David, S. Harvey, Michael McLane, Joanna Pocock, Tom Smith, Gustaf, Anthea Lawson, Cate ChapmanNew stories for an age of endings
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Two Million Hornets
We are delighted to announce the publication of our new special autumn collection – the final print anthology in a 16-year series – a golden book shaped by the people at the heart of the project. Over the next few weeks we’ll be sharing som...
Welcome to Dark Mountain: Issue 30
We are thrilled to be publishing our new special autumn collection today, available now from our online shop. As ever, it a joyous and celebratory moment, but, on this occasion, one also tinged with sorrow, as this will be our last print an...
The Old Woman
Continuing our series on the intimate connections between plants and people, writer Samantha Harvey brings us to the home where she and her family settled in the Hudson Valley of New York State, and the centuries-old maple that grew beside...
Tantaka and Red Shiso
A bitter leaf from our Dark Kitchen
In 2018 we launched a new section in our online edition called Dark Kitchen, looking at food culture in a time of converging ecological crises. Core to many of its pieces – and the issue that later came...
A Spirit Never to Betray
On the distillation and destruction of an ancient plant alliance
After our recent series on technology, we return this month to the organic world, to focus on one of the key cultural relationships on this Earth between plants and people. B...
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New stories for an age of endings
Antonio Serrano Nieto is a photographer and location scout based in southern Spain. Alongside his professional work, he writes about landscapes where human histories, memory and the more-than-human world intersect.
I am co-director of the Climate Majority Project, a former Professor of Philosophy at the UEA, and author of several books including Transformative Adaptation, Do You Want to Know the Truth?, This Civilisation Is Finished, and Parents For A Future.
Author of 'After Ithaca - Journeys in Deep time.' and '52 Flowers That Shook My World.' Co-director of the Dark Mountain Project. Teaches collaborative writing and radical kinship with the more-than human world. charlotteducann.net.
Born in the wetlands of Belarus's Polesia, far from any sea — and has spent most of his life on one since. The polar regions, Oceania, and parts of Africa have shaped him most.
Earth writer. Proud Xicana. Author of THE BLUE HOURS: MY SUMMERS AND WINTER IN ANTARCTICA forthcoming from Atria Books 12.01.2026.
Writer, editor and co-director of the Dark Mountain Project. Author of '52 Flowers That Shook My World' and 'After Ithaca'.
Educator & writer rooted in Japan, attuned to the unseen threads and stubborn inheritances of trembling kinship.
photographer and translator
Croton resident, reader, writer, mother.
Michael McLane is a poet, essayist and editor. He is author of the chapbooks Trace Elements and Fume, the editor of The Once and Future Lake, an anthology on the Great Salt Lake and poetry editor for Dark Mountain. He lives in Aotearoa/New Zealand.
Joanna is the author of 'Surrender' and 'Greyhound' published in the UK by Fitzcarraldo Editions and in the US by Soft Skull. She illustrates her writings with photographs & has been part of the Dark Mountain collective since 2014.
Thomas S.J. Smith is a researcher, writer and editor based in northern Spain. He is a member of the Community Economies Institute (CEI) and his research interests relate to social-ecological transformations, economic localisation, and degrowth.
Writing on cyberecology, animism and AI, intentional community building, solarpunk and the development of the more-than-human web of life 🌱✨
Author and campaigner. Books: How Not To Save The World (coming in June 2026) and The Entangled Activist
Napper of naps, knitter of knits, occasional scribber of poems. IG: @small.bear.dreaming
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