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Midge Raymond

Midge Raymond is a co-founder of Ashland Creek Press. She is the author of the novels Floreana and My Last Continent, the award-winning short story collection Forgetting English, and, with John Yunker, the suspense novel Devils Island.

Book Review: ATOMIC FAMILY by Ciera Horton McElroy

February 28, 2023 by Midge Raymond

Cierra Horton McElroy’s debut novel, Atomic Family, is not an environmental novel of the twenty-first-century, yet its themes of impending nuclear devastation and eco-anxiety nevertheless feel all too real. Atomic …

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Categories Book Reviews, Climate Change, Ecology, Fiction, Pollution

Book Review: JUSTICE FOR ANIMALS by Martha C. Nussbaum

February 23, 2023February 20, 2023 by Midge Raymond

As with so many books about the plight of animals in today’s world, Martha C. Nussbaum’s Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility needs to be read most of all by …

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Categories Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, Endangered Species, Nonfiction, Oceans, Sustainability

Book Review: COYOTE AMERICA by Dan Flores

December 3, 2022 by Midge Raymond

Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History by Dan Flores is excellent reading, especially for those of us who’ve shared our landscapes with these magnificent creatures. Flores’s knowledge of the …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animal Rights, Basic Books, Book Reviews, Conservation, Nonfiction

Book Review: BITCH by Lucy Cooke

September 13, 2022 by Midge Raymond

As a zoology student, Lucy Cooke was taught that the females of the species are exploited, weak, and passive. As a human animal, Cooke begged to differ. In Bitch: On the …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Basic Books, Birds, Book Reviews, Ecology, Education, Insects, Nonfiction

Book Review: FELLOWSHIP POINT by Alice Elliott Dark

September 16, 2024August 31, 2022 by Midge Raymond

Alice Elliott Dark’s beautiful, sprawling novel Fellowship Point is about land and stewardship, about nature and conservation, but more than that, it is a book of friendship across the decades …

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Categories Birds, Book Reviews, Conservation, Ecology, Fiction, Simon & Schuster

Book Review: The Dolphin House by Audrey Schulman

June 1, 2022 by Midge Raymond

Audrey Schulman’s The Dolphin House, inspired by a true story about dolphin research in St. Thomas in the 1960s, is a beautiful, thought-provoking read, at times as heartbreaking as it …

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Categories Book Reviews, Europa Editions, Fiction

Book Review: THE HIGH HOUSE by Jessie Greengrass

May 28, 2022 by Midge Raymond

While Jessie Greengrass’s remarkable novel The High House is set primarily in a grim future, this is not purely dystopian fiction—in fact, it feels far more contemporary, like a novel …

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Categories Book Reviews, Climate Change, Fiction, Simon & Schuster

The 2021 Siskiyou Prize winner & finalists!

March 13, 2022March 7, 2022 by Midge Raymond

We are thrilled to announce the 2021 Siskiyou Prize winner and finalists!  It was another record year of submissions, and we couldn’t be more pleased to see so many writers …

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Categories Awards

Book Review: Julian Sancton’s MADHOUSE AT THE END OF THE EARTH

January 17, 2022January 17, 2022 by Midge Raymond

Julian Sancton’s Madhouse at the End of the Earth tells the riveting, page-turning story of the Belgica’s multinational expedition to Antarctica, led by Belgian commandant Adrien de Gerlache. This may be not be …

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Categories Book Reviews, Crown, Nonfiction, Penguin Random House

Book Review: Ash Davidson’s Damnation Spring

May 28, 2025December 6, 2021 by Midge Raymond

Living in Southern Oregon, not far north of where Ash Davidson’s Damnation Spring is set, I’ve grown used to passing trucks that are overloaded with timber, and mountainsides bare from clear-cuts. Knowing …

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Categories Book Reviews, Climate Change, Conservation, Fiction, Simon & Schuster, Trees

2021 Siskiyou Prize submissions are open!

September 3, 2021September 1, 2021 by Midge Raymond

Submissions are now open for the Siskiyou Prize for New Environmental Literature. This year’s award, sponsored by Ashland Creek Press and the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, will be …

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Categories Ashland Creek Press, Awards, Book Publishers, Contest, For Writers, Writing Opportunities, Writing Residency
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