John Yunker 
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 …
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 …
Christina Rivera is an author from Colorado whose girlhood was bordered by coastlines of the Pacific Ocean. Her debut book, MY OCEANS was longlisted for the Graywolf Press Prize, a finalist for the Siskiyou Prize for New Environmental Literature, and publishes this month with Curbstone Books, an imprint of Northwestern University Press. Here’s a recent …
Nearly 30 years ago, the first genetically modified (GM) seed produced a tomato known as the Flavr Savr. The tomato was engineered for longer shelf life which was where it spent most of its time. Consumers didn’t like the way it tasted and it soon went the way of history. But that didn’t stop Monsanto …
The Readers Write section in The Sun is one of the most-read sections of this popular magazine. I’m happy to pass along an opportunity that I suspect will resonate with many readers of EcoLit Books: Wild AnimalsMaybe bears or coyotes roam your backyard, or maybe the closest you get to wildlife is city pigeons and …
So many amazing books. So little time to review them all… Solar Adobe: Energy, Ecology, and Earthen Architecture By Albert Narath How a centuries-old architectural tradition reemerged as a potential solution to the political and environmental crises of the 1970s Against the backdrop of a global energy crisis, a widespread movement embracing the use of …
