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John Yunker

John is co-author, with Midge Raymond, of the Tasmanian mystery Devils Island. 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).

Attention writers: Terrain’s annual writing contest is now open

April 25, 2015 by John Yunker

Terrain’s 6th annual contest for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry is now accepting submissions. The winner of each genre receives $500. Judges are as follows: Luis Alberto Urrea – Fiction Scott …

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Categories For Writers, Writing Opportunities

The Chain picks up where The Jungle leaves off

May 20, 2015February 11, 2015 by John Yunker

The Chain: Farm, Factory, and the Fate of Our Food, by Ted Genoways, is an important work of reporting. Based on years of interviews and tireless research, the book spans the length …

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Categories Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Nonfiction, Pollution, Veganism

Fourth River announces theme issue: Queering Nature

December 2, 2014 by John Yunker

The literary journal Fourth River is now accepting submissions for a special issue themed Queering Nature: Guest-edited by Dakota Garilli and Michael Walsh, The Fourth River’s second online issue, to launch …

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Categories For Writers, Writing Opportunities

The Necessary Evolution of Environmental Writing

November 20, 2014 by John Yunker

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, …

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Categories Animal Rights, Climate Change, Conservation, Endangered Species, Essays, For Writers, Oceans, Pollution, Trees

The Poetic Animal: An open call for art and poetry

November 11, 2014 by John Yunker

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 …

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Categories Animal Rights, Endangered Species, For Writers, Poetry, Veganism, Writing Opportunities

Book Review: A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold

September 29, 2019October 22, 2014 by John Yunker

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 …

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Categories Ballantine Books, Birds, Book Reviews, Conservation, Endangered Species, Nonfiction, Trees

Writing opportunity for UK and Ireland residents: New Welsh Writing Awards

October 16, 2014 by John Yunker

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 …

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Categories Climate Change, For Writers, Writing Opportunities

Writing opportunity for undergrads and grads: Sloth, A Journal of Human-Animal Studies

September 16, 2014 by John Yunker

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 …

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Categories Animal Rights, Endangered Species, For Writers, Journals and Magazines, Veganism, Writing Opportunities

The Siskiyou Prize for New Environmental Writing: Only three weeks remaining

September 11, 2014September 8, 2014 by John Yunker

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 …

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Categories For Writers, Writing Opportunities

subTerrain writing opportunity: MEAT (closing Sept. 1)

August 13, 2014 by John Yunker

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 …

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Categories Animal Rights, For Writers, Writing Opportunities

Pity the predators. A review of Beasts by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

July 7, 2014 by John Yunker

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 …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Nonfiction, Oceans, Veganism
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