A novel by Nini Berndt Tin House, June 2025 Desire is the driving force of any story. What do the characters want? In There Are Reasons For This, Nina Berndt’s thought-provoking debut novel, many of the characters are numb to desire because the world around them is so depressing. And no wonder. The novel is …
Birmingham City University is sponsoring a special writing contest inspired by vegan author Benjamin Zephaniah. This year’s theme is inspired by Benjamin Zephaniah’s poem ‘Nature Trail’, encouraging budding writers to submit poems about the environment, the spaces where they spend their time, the impact of nature on their everyday life, and the importance of looking after …
I was once told that a weed is simply a plant out of place. Indeed, one person’s weed may be another person’s precious resource. In Love Them to Death: Turning Invasive Plants into Local Economic Opportunities, editor Wendy L. Applequist has assembled a diverse mix of essays documenting the many ways that “invasive” species are …
Imagine a lion who decides one day that he will no longer survive off eating animals. This is the premise of Erasmus Joseph Lion by Marvin Rollick, one of a number of new books out in the world. Please have a look! Erasmus Joseph Lion by Marvin Rollick Erasmus Joseph Lion, the proud and powerful …
Even before beginning the research for her book My Dog Always Eats First: Homeless People & Their Animals, Leslie Irvine had been thinking about what it means for a human to care for an animal. A decade before beginning the book, she’d encountered a man, with his dog, asking for money along a median on a …
Join us at Wordcrafters in Eugene, Oregon, on Saturday, May 3, from 2 to 5 p.m. for PATHS TO PUBLISHING, a comprehensive workshop on how to successfully get your book into the world. We’ll cover what path is best for you (Big Five publishers, self-publishing, and everything in between), how to avoid scams (there are …
I consider The Ecological Citizen to be a must-read journal. So I’m happy to pass along a (no fee) writing opportunity under the theme of Feral Lines: Step over the edge and into the wilderness of Feral Lines, an upcoming flash fiction collection from The Ecological Citizen. In these untamed reveries, wolves roam free through expansive …
Brandeis University Press is opening up in a month for submissions for both scholars and trade books. Specifically, they are looking for “proposals for single-author book manuscripts in environmental history, nature, more-than-human histories, works at the intersection of gender and nature, specific animal histories, and works exploring the ocean.” They are open to direct submissions …
In Your Neighbor Kills Puppies: Inside the Animal Liberation Movement author Tom Harris has written a comprehensive history of the battles won and lost in the UK, US and around the world as animal rights activists fought to free animals from testing laboratories and put the vivisection industry out of business. Harris is an authoritative …
I’m happy to share a new selection of environmentally themed books — including poetry, fiction and nonfiction. Please check them out… Green to Grey: An Environmental Anthology Edited by Ian Thomas Shaw and Timothy P. Niedermann The eclectic stories in this anthology speak to our changing climate and degrading environment—the transformation of our world from …
