Author and narrator: Written and narrated by Wendy Sarkissian throughout
Length: about 12 hours and 10 minutes, in English
Format: standard digital audiobook (Audible, Apple Books), aligned with the 548-page print and e-book text
Creeksong, One Woman Sings the Climate Blues, A Memoir (unabridged audiobook)
Creeksong: One Woman Sings the Climate Blues is a 12-hour, unabridged memoir performed in Wendy Sarkissian's own voice, a fierce, intimate elder voice that refuses to look away from ecological collapse or personal devastation. Over these hours, listeners travel with her from childhood trauma, betrayal, and professional burnout into a raw, solitary year (1991 to 1992) in a tiny remnant Australian rainforest, where fear and climate grief slowly alchemise into courage, reciprocity with place, and a renewed vow to serve the Earth.
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Directed by Wendy's partner, award-winning director Christopher Baudat, the audiobook is crafted almost like music: dynamic, sonorous, and rhythmic, with vocal nuance and pacing that draw listeners into a numinous, living relationship with creek, forest, and sky.
This is not a neutral "reading" but a spiritual-ecological initiation in sound: a spirited elder singing her climate blues and inviting others to find their own song of resistance and reverence. Climate grief is treated here as a sane, soul-level response to a world in peril, not a pathology to be silenced, and listeners are accompanied through collapse, retreat, ordeal, and return to action.
Coached by expert colleagues in Post Hypnotic Press in Vancouver, Wendy and Christopher built an audio studio in his apartment and recorded the audiobook over several months in 2022 and 2023. They taught themselves all aspects of audiobook production. The audiobook has 400 pieces of music and 900 special effects, including original soundscapes from the Australian outback.