The last of our excerpts from FABULA is Wayne Karlin's downriver journey through the ghostly shades of America's wars, with artwork from John Weeden

Our penultimate excerpt from Issue 18 is adrienne maree brown's short story about the rising of the waters, with artwork by Sunandini Banerjee

Our third offering from Dark Mountain: Issue 18 – FABULA comes from the bogs of a dystopian Ireland, with artwork by Sarah Ainslie

From the pages of FABULA, we bring you Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer's story of sexual and ecological ecstasy, accompanied by Luisa-Maria MacCormack's 'The Great Beast'.

To celebrate the launch of our first fiction issue, we bring you a short story by Cynan Jones, set in a near-future Britain ravaged by climate change. With illustrations by Nick Hayes.

Out today: our Autumn 2020 issue dedicated to uncivilised fiction

For our Becoming Human series, poet and editor Cate Chapman writes about the parallels between navigating long-term illness and a planet and a people in crisis.

Our perception of climate change is often blinkered by scientific data and statistics. Dougald Hine reviews two books that delve into the kind of lexicon and attention demanded in an age of catastrophe.

On this month's Dark Kitchen table: artist duo Cooking Sections' CLIMAVORE project on the island of Skye and an extract from their 'island book' 'Salmon - A Red Herring'

Two penetrating glimpses into the wild world in times of calamity: Rob Carney's juxtaposition of the poetic and the political observing a hawk and squirrel in the US; Samantha Clark's lockdown contemplation of loss and stillness by a loch on a grey day on Orkney.

As catastrophic fires continue to rage through West coast in the US and the wetlands of Brazil, a lament for the burning of wild lives of the forests in Washington and Australia.