The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment has announced the finalists for their bi-annual book awards:
Creative Award Finalists:
Bitten: My Unexpected Love Affair with Florida
by Andrew Furman (memoir/essays)
The Small Heart of Things: Being at Home in a Beckoning World
by Julian Hoffman (creative nonfiction)
Dark. Sweet.
by Linda Hogan (poetry)
The Devil’s Cormorant: A Natural History
by Richard J. King (creative nonfiction)
Invasives
by Brandon Krieg (poetry)
Subduction Zone
by Emily McGiffin (poetry)
Scholarly Award Finalists:
Different Shades of Green: African Literature, Environmental Justice, and Political Ecology
by Byron Caminero-Santangelo
Green Planets: Ecology and Science Fiction
edited by Gerry Canavan and Kim Stanley Robinson
Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology After the End of the World
by Timothy Morton
Animal Bodies, Renaissance Culture
by Karen Raber
Strange Natures: Futurity, Empathy, and the Queer Ecological Imagination
by Nicole Seymour
Thoreauvian Modernities: Transatlantic Conversations on an American Icon
edited by François Specq, Laura Dassow Walls, and Michel Granger
John is an award-winning author of stories, novels and plays. He is author of THE STANDING DEAD, coming in 2027. He is also author of the novels The Tourist Trail and Where Oceans Hide Their Dead and co-author of the mystery Devils Island. He is editor of Writing for Animals (also now a writing program). More at JohnYunker.com.