ASLE announces finalists for 2025 Book Awards

ASLE has announced the finalists for its biennial book awards and I’m excited to see a few titles reviewed here at EcoLit Books, like Sea Change, Soil and The Last Beekeeper.


Ecocritical Book Award Finalists:

Joanna Allan, Saharan Winds: Energy Systems and Aeolian Imaginaries in Western Sahara
West Virginia University Press, 2024

Julia Fiedorczuk and Pawel Piszczatowski, eds., Places That the Map Can’t Contain: Poetics in the AnthropoceneBrill | V&R Unipress, 2023  

Shannon Gayk, Apocalyptic Ecologies: From Creation to Doom in Middle English Literature
The University of Chicago Press, 2024  

Christina Gerhardt, Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean
University of California Press, 2023

Jamie L. Jones, Rendered Obsolete: Energy Culture and the Afterlife of US Whaling
University of North Carolina Press, 2023  

Jordan B. Kinder, Petroturfing: Refining Canadian Oil Through Social Media
University of Minnesota Press, 2024

John MacNeill Miller, The Ecological Plot: How Stories Gave Rise to Science
University of Virginia Press 2024

Kamala Joyce Platt, Environmental Justice Poetics: Cultural Representations of Environmental Racism from Chicanas and Women in India
De Gryuter, 2023 (Paperback coming June 30, 2025)

Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Alexa Weik von Mossner, W. P. Malecki and Frank Hakemulder, eds., Empirical Ecocriticism: Environmental Narratives for Social Change
University of Minnesota Press, 2023

Steven Swarbrick and Jean-Thomas Tremblay, Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction
Northwestern University Press, 2024

Creative Book Award Finalists:

Lauren Camp, Worn Smooth between Devourings
NYQ Books, 2023  

Julie Carrick Dalton, The Last Beekeeper
Forge, 2023

Camille T. Dungy, Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden
Simon & Schuster, 2023

Janice N. Harrington, Yard Show
BOA Editions, Ltd., 2024

Emily Raboteau, Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against “the Apocalypse”
Henry Holt & Co, 2024

Debbie Urbanski, After World: A Novel
Simon & Schuster, 2023  

Winners will be announced this July and celebrated at the Authors/Awards Reception at the 2025 Conference at the University of Maryland, College Park on July 9. The finalists are books authored or edited by ASLE and international affiliate members. 


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