Insects and the people who love them: A review of “A Buzz in the Meadow”
In A Buzz in the Meadow: The Natural History of a French Farm by Dave Goulson, insects are given the respect they are due. For it is insects, in all …
John Yunker
Attention writers: Terrain’s annual writing contest is now open
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 …
The Chain picks up where The Jungle leaves off
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 …
Fourth River announces theme issue: Queering Nature
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 …
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, …
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 …