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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.

Announcing the winner & finalists of the 2016 Siskiyou Prize!

February 23, 2017 by Midge Raymond

We are delighted to announce the winner of the 2016 Siskiyou Prize for New Environmental Literature: Katy Yocom, for her novel THREE WAYS TO DISAPPEAR. Judge JoeAnn Hart writes, “THREE WAYS TO DISAPPEAR begins …

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Categories Conservation, Fiction, For Writers, Writing Opportunities

Book Review: What a Fish Knows by Jonathan Balcombe

January 16, 2017January 16, 2017 by Midge Raymond

It’s difficult to think of another title that is more important to the oceans—and therefore to the earth’s entire ecosystem—than What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animal Rights, Book Publishers, Nonfiction, Oceans

Book Review: Even In My Dreams: A collection of vegan poems

January 7, 2017 by Midge Raymond

“Why a book of vegan poetry?” asks editor Emma Letessier in the introduction to Even In My Dreams: A Collection of Vegan Poems. As a poet herself, Letessier has found writing …

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Categories Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Poetry, Veganism

Book Review: Marrow Island by Alexis M. Smith

September 29, 2019December 12, 2016 by Midge Raymond

Alexis M. Smith’s lovely novel Marrow Island envisions environmental catastrophe on several levels, beginning with a devastating earthquake and the subsequent oil refinery accident whose effects, even though these events …

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Categories Book Reviews, Fiction, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Oil, Pollution

Book Review: The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf

September 29, 2019November 28, 2016 by Midge Raymond

The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World by Andrea Wulf examines the life of the oft-forgotten founder of the modern environmentalist movement. Alexander von Humboldt was a German …

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Categories Book Reviews, Climate Change, Conservation, Nonfiction, Vintage

A Q&A with author Jennifer Longo

August 28, 2016 by Midge Raymond

Jennifer Longo is the author of the novel Up to this Pointe (learn more about the book here). Thanks to Jennifer for chatting with me about her wonderful book! Q: Your …

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Categories Book Reviews, Children's Books, Fiction, Q&A

Book Review: Up to this Pointe by Jennifer Longo

September 29, 2019August 28, 2016 by Midge Raymond

Jennifer Longo’s Up to This Pointe is a delightful, wholly original novel that brings YA readers to territory not often visited in this genre: Antarctica. Seventeen-year-old Harper Scott is a …

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Categories Book Reviews, Children's Books, Climate Change, Conservation, Fiction, Oceans, Random House

Call for Submissions: Zoomorphic

August 20, 2016 by Midge Raymond

The magazine Zoomorphic seeks submissions for its upcoming anthology of oceanic life. We are currently inviting submissions of poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, conservation journalism and art for our first printed …

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Categories For Writers, Journals and Magazines, Oceans, Writing Opportunities

Book Review: The Penguin Lessons by Tom Michell

September 29, 2019January 20, 2016 by Midge Raymond

The Penguin Lessons is the story of a young Englishman who, on vacation in Uruguay from his teaching job at a boarding school in Argentina, rescues an oil-covered Magellanic penguin. …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animal Rights, Ballantine Books, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Conservation, Nonfiction, Oceans, Oil, Pollution

Book Review: The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating

September 29, 2019January 6, 2016 by Midge Raymond

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey is a meditative, thought-provoking book about one of our most underestimated and underappreciated animals—the wild snail—and the ways in which the natural …

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Categories Algonquin Books, Animal Behavior, Book Reviews, Essays, Nonfiction

Announcing the Siskiyou Prize winner and finalists

December 16, 2015 by Midge Raymond

Ashland Creek Press is delighted to announce Jennifer Boyden has won the 2015 Siskiyou Prize for her novel THE CHIEF OF RALLY TREE. Of THE CHIEF OF RALLY TREE, judge Ann Pancake writes: …

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Categories For Writers, Writing Opportunities
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