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John Yunker

John is co-author, with Midge Raymond, of the 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). More at JohnYunker.com.

Writing Opportunity: The Ecological Citizen

April 21, 2025 by John Yunker

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 …

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Categories Animals, For Writers, Writing Opportunities

Writing Opportunity: Green Writers Press

April 6, 2025 by John Yunker

The publisher Green Writers Press is now accepting book-length works of fiction, nonfiction and poetry. There is no fee to submit and the deadline is June 1st. Learn more.

Categories For Writers, Writing Opportunities

Call for submissions: Brandeis University Press

March 30, 2025 by John Yunker

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, …

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Categories For Writers, Writing Opportunities

Book Review: Your Neighbor Kills Puppies

March 26, 2025 by John Yunker

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 …

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Categories Animal Rights, Book Reviews, History, Nonfiction, Veganism, What we're reading

New and forthcoming environmental books (March 2025)

March 23, 2025 by John Yunker

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 …

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Categories Animal Rights, Animals, Anthropocene, Architecture, Conservation, Earth Architecture, Ecology, Fiction, Nonfiction, Oceans, Poetry, Veganism, W. W. Norton & Company

Q&A with Christina Rivera, author of My Oceans

March 8, 2025 by John Yunker

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 …

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Categories Author Q&A, Climate Change, Conservation, Oceans, Q&A, What we're reading

Book Review: Kernels of Resistance by Liza Grandia

March 1, 2025 by John Yunker

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 …

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Categories Book Reviews, Ecology, Gardening, History, Nonfiction, Oil, Organic Farming, Plants, Sustainability, University of Washington Press, What we're reading

Writing Opportunity: The Sun (Wild Animals)

February 21, 2025 by John Yunker

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 …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animal Rights, Animals, For Writers, Writing Opportunities

New and forthcoming environmental books (February 2025)

June 13, 2025February 20, 2025 by John Yunker

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 …

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Categories Activism, Animal Rights, Architecture, Book Reviews, Conservation, Earth Architecture, Ecology, Oceans, Veganism, W. W. Norton & Company

EcoLit Books Success Story: Talitha May

February 17, 2025 by John Yunker

An EcoLit Books success story doesn’t have to be limited to the written word. Reckoning features artwork by Talitha May who discovered the journal through our list of Literary Outlets …

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Categories Activism, Art, Ecology, Journals and Magazines, Organic Farming, Pollution, Success Story, Sustainability

The latest environmental writing opportunities

February 9, 2025 by John Yunker

Today I updated our two lists devoted to environmental publishers and journals. To our list of literary outlets for environmental writing I added a new academic journal: Plant Perspectives. They …

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Categories For Writers, Journals and Magazines, Writing Opportunities
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