What a Climate Fiction Panel Taught Me About the Genre I Accidentally Wrote Into

It's hard to claim you don't write climate fiction when your book is called When the Trees All Burned.

And yet, sitting on a panel at Canada Fiction Fest alongside cli-fi authors Margaret Sweatman, Jason Pchajek, and K.A. Wiggins (moderated by author Steve Hugh Westernra) I found myself realizing that there's a difference between writing into a genre and knowing it from the inside out.