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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: 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

Book Review: We Love You, Charlie Freeman by Kaitlyn Greenidge

August 25, 2021 by Midge Raymond

Kaitlyn Greenidge’s stunning and unique novel, We Love You, Charlie Freeman, begins as the story of a family that moves into the The Toneybee Institute for Ape Research to teach …

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Categories Algonquin Books, Animal Behavior, Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Fiction

Interview with author Charlotte McConaghy

December 30, 2024August 3, 2021 by Midge Raymond

Charlotte McConaghy, an Australian writer living in Sydney, is the author of Migrations and Once There Were Wolves. Here, she chats with EcoLit Books about her new novel about the …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animal Rights, Conservation, For Writers, Q&A, Rewilding, Wolves

Book Review: Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy

August 3, 2021 by Midge Raymond

Charlotte McConaghy’s Once There Were Wolves shares much in common with her previous novel, Migrations — the journey of a troubled young woman hoping to save the animals she loves, …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Conservation, Endangered Species, Fiction, Wolves

Book Review: IN THE COMPANY OF MEN

May 5, 2021 by Midge Raymond

Véronique Tadjo’s slender, haunting novel In the Company of Men offers myriad points of view—human and nonhuman—in its story of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa in 2014. Published in …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Anthropocene, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Ecology, Fiction, Trees

Book Review: The Shark Club

April 9, 2021 by Midge Raymond

Ann Kidd Taylor’s novel, The Shark Club, is not only a delightful read as we head into spring and summer “beach reading” time, but it is a much-needed antidote to Peter …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Conservation, Ecology, Endangered Species, Fiction, Penguin Books
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