The Necessary Evolution of Environmental Writing
Halfway through reading The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod by Henry Beston, I came across the following passage: A new danger, moreover, …
John Yunker
The Poetic Animal: An open call for art and poetry
If you haven’t heard of the National Museum of Animals and Society, consider this a heads up. You’re going to hear more about this museum in the years ahead, because …
Book Review: A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
Reading A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold I am struck time and again by how contemporary it feels. This is a testament to Leopold, who wrote this book back in the late …
Writing opportunity for UK and Ireland residents: New Welsh Writing Awards
People, Place & Planet: WWF Cymru Prize for Writing on Nature and the Environment From the website: New Welsh Review, in association with WWF Cymru and the CADCentre, is thrilled …
Writing opportunity for undergrads and grads: Sloth, A Journal of Human-Animal Studies
The Animals and Society Institute has launched a journal exclusively for undergraduate and graduate students, to publish papers, book reviews, essays, and other work. Sloth is an online bi-annual journal …
The Siskiyou Prize for New Environmental Writing: Only three weeks remaining
Just a brief reminder that we are fast approaching the deadline for the 2014 Siskiyou Prize for New Environmental Writing. Our final judge is award-winning author Karen Joy Fowler. You …
subTerrain writing opportunity: MEAT (closing Sept. 1)
I just came across an interesting opportunity (via Aerogramme) for writing focused on our relationship with meat: Issue #69 (Winter) — Theme: “MEAT” Humans have hunted, trapped, and killed animals for …
Pity the predators. A review of Beasts by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
What happens when a predator becomes prey? Today, the animals we have long viewed as predators – lions and tigers, bears and sharks – are in some cases on the verge of extinction. And, thanks to …
Terrain.org 5th Annual Contest is now open for submissions
The environmental literary journal Terrain has opened submissions to its annual contest — for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. You have until September 1 to submit. Here’s the link. I’m happy …
Fill ‘er up: A review of Living Oil by Stephanie LeMenager
Living Oil: Petroleum Culture in the American Century by Stephanie LeMenager is an academic book and priced accordingly. In other words, this is not the sort of book you’d find in an airport …
Poecology now accepting ecolit submissions
From now until May 31, the literary journal Poecology is accepting “submissions of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction with an emphasis on place, environment, or ecology.” More information