Dennis Mombauer (Writer)

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

[Dennis Mombauer (Writer) @DMombauerWriter]

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

[Dennis Mombauer (Writer) @DMombauerWriter]

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.

[Dennis Mombauer (Writer) @DMombauerWriter]

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

[Dennis Mombauer (Writer) @DMombauerWriter]

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

[SLYCAN Trust @SLYCANTrust]

➡️ 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: https://t.co/4TtW7Figbp

[SLYCAN Trust @SLYCANTrust]

📘 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

[SLYCAN Trust @SLYCANTrust]

🗺💫 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: https://t.co/Ii4XvQPSy4

[Emma River-Roberts @ER_Roberts_]

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...

[Dennis Mombauer (Writer) @DMombauerWriter]

@beary_12 @zimranjacob Also small but would be interested, Twitter won't allow me to DM however

[Dennis Mombauer (Writer) @DMombauerWriter]

📚 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

[Dennis Mombauer @DMombauer]

📣 My new @FT_SriLanka column focuses on the 🔑 role of #climate #communicators & innovative approaches to outreach & communication:

https://t.co/6kPe1s0hBG

@ClimaComms @SLYCANTrust @DMombauerWriter @AdaptXChange @UNFCCC @CANIntl @YaleClimateComm @LossandDamage @Adapt_Community

[Dennis Mombauer (Writer) @DMombauerWriter]

➡️ The English original of "The Dust Bathynaut" is available in my #weirdfiction #chapbook "The House of the Dark Whale," together with other dark & weird stories: https://t.co/lGy5rGd2I2

@SCiFiNetwork_ @scifi_writers @FantasyMagazine @GNutsofHorror @ink_horror @HorrorWriters

[Dennis Mombauer (Writer) @DMombauerWriter]

📚 Besides English & German, my stories have also appeared in #translation: a small series.

4️⃣ Tõlkejutt: Tolmutuuker (The Dust Bathynaut), #Estonian 🇪🇪, in Reaktor:

https://t.co/DjbK72gkHD

@sfwa @MicroSFF @MithilaReview @WeWriteFiction @GSFWC @BritFantasySoc @Indie_SciFi

[Dennis Mombauer (Writer) @DMombauerWriter]

Sent by the Precogniscience Exalted, a specialist communicator enters a maze of conspiracies as he dives into the consciousness of an animate temple floating in space.

➡️ The English version is published as well: https://t.co/uDmnRTPNdS

@apexmag @SciFiPrompt @WeWriteFiction

[Dennis Mombauer (Writer) @DMombauerWriter]

📚 Besides English & German, my stories have also appeared in #translation: a small series.

3️⃣ "Un Communicador con Objectos Animados" (A Communicator With Animate Objects), #Spanish in El futuro de ayer, hoy

https://t.co/Gx58h8kmms

@fandsf @MithilaReview @BritFantasySoc @sfwa

[ClimaComms @ClimaComms]

📣 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

[Dennis Mombauer (Writer) @DMombauerWriter]

▶️ This #scifi #shortstory is available in English as well in the "Titanic Terastructures" anthology edited by @JayHengePubKB's Jessica Augustsson: https://t.co/uKIf7o5j5P

@sfwa @SCiFiNetwork_ @Indie_SciFi @SciFiPrompt @scifi_shorts @scifi_writers @WritersofScifi @WeWriteFiction

[Dennis Mombauer (Writer) @DMombauerWriter]

📚 Besides English & German, my stories have also appeared in #translation: a small series.

2️⃣ "Uppumise tunne" (The Sensation of Drowning) in #Estonian 🇪🇪 in Algernon: https://t.co/ExmtjnQlGR

@BritFantasySoc @GSFWC @FictionUtopia @fandsf @sf_jahr @DailySF @sfwa @FictionClimate

[Dennis Mombauer (Writer) @DMombauerWriter]

"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.

[Dennis Mombauer (Writer) @DMombauerWriter]

@her_sabbatical 👋 Very soft #SF as well as #weirdfiction, #fantasy, & #horror with climate change undertones--e.g., my English debut novella, a haunted house story in the age of #climatechange, set in Sri Lanka: https://t.co/dmnM2z2Nhl