I’m excited to be sharing this writing opportunity. It’s not every day that a literary journal asks specifically for animal-centric literature.
The Bellevue Literary Review is publishing a theme issue titled Animalia. Here are the details:
Animalia: What animals can teach us about being human
Health is not simply a human concept. The experience of inhabiting a body, with all its flaws and failings, is universal among all creatures that live and breathe. Most species—including our own—are highly interdependent. Even after industrialization and well into the digital age, animals remain an integral part of our daily lives, though we often don’t notice or consider this. Animals and humans share the environment—often uneasily and unequally. We elbow into each other’s homesteads, psyches, and microbiomes, affecting each other’s health. Animals can be sources of fear as well as sources of comfort. Animals can be teachers with whom we interact and learn, and they can be resources that we exploit and degrade. We eat animals and occasionally they eat us.
There is a $5 fee. I suspect I’ll be submitting…
PS: Check out our list of magazines and journals that accept environment writing.
John is co-author, with Midge Raymond, of the eco-mystery Devils Island, forthcoming in 2024. He is also author of the novels The Tourist Trail and Where Oceans Hide Their Dead. Co-founder of Ashland Creek Press and editor of Writing for Animals (also now a writing program).
