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Animal Writes book launch & writing prompts

June 20, 2025 by John Yunker

Thanks to everyone who joined our book launch yesterday. For those who couldn’t be there, here is the recording — in which we share a few short readings and three …

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Categories Animal Rights, Animals, Education, Events, For Writers, Pets, Q&A, What we're reading

Join us for Writing for Animals

February 5, 2024February 1, 2024 by Midge Raymond

We are thrilled to once again offer a live Zoom class for Writing for Animals, beginning March 2! We wanted to share a little bit about what you’ll be learning … …

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Categories Classes, EcoLit News, Education, Events, For Writers, Success Story, Writing Opportunities

Virtual event: Tracing Pathways to Positive Climate Futures

January 1, 2024 by John Yunker

Here is an interesting (and free) virtual event happening on January 16th at Noon Pacific time — a book launch for the Climate Action Almanac, presented by Arizona State University’s …

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Categories Anthropocene, Climate Change, Ecology, Education, Events, For Writers, Oceans, Sustainability

Catch up on our recent event

May 25, 2023 by Midge Raymond

Ashland Creek Press was thrilled to host Reading Animals/Writing Animals, sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Writers’ Union of Canada, with Siskiyou Prize winner and Among …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animal Rights, Birds, Classes, Conservation, Ecology, Events, For Writers, Pets, Veganism

The Nature of Cities Festival 2022

March 20, 2022 by John Yunker

In less than two weeks the virtual The Nature of Cities Festival begins. The event is designed and run by The Nature of Cities, a registered not-for-profit based in New York. …

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Join the ASLE Virtual Conference: Emergence/y

July 24, 2021 by John Yunker

ASLE (The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment) is holding its conference online from July 26 to August 6. Keynote presentations include: Aimee Nezhukumatathil, poet and author of …

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Categories Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, Ecomedia, Education, Endangered Species, Events, For Writers, Oceans, Pollution, Sustainability, Trees, Veganism, What we're reading

Upcoming event: Evolving Beyond Animal Ag

January 30, 2021 by John Yunker

Imagine that you’re an nth-generation farmer and you’ve been raised to continue business as usual in animal agriculture. But you can’t help but notice that the world is changing around …

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Categories Animal Rights, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, Education, Events, For Writers, Organic Farming, Plants, Pollution, Sustainability, Veganism

Learn about the state of the world’s sea turtles

December 5, 2020 by John Yunker

You can’t be a literary advocate for animals if you don’t know very much about them. Which is why I try to absorb as much as I can from naturalists …

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Categories Education, Events, Oceans

Join a virtual event with Sitka residents

October 22, 2020 by John Yunker

In the free Zoom event on November 5th, you’ll hear from the following Sitka residents: Craig See an ecosystem scientist interested in how carbon and nutrients move through forest landscapes. …

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Categories Conservation, Ecology, Education, Events

Upcoming Virtual Event: Women Writing the Natural World

October 17, 2020 by John Yunker

Here’s an excellent event coming up this Monday at 7pm PST on Zoom and Facebook. The event features writers Corinna Cook, Marybeth Holleman, Adrienne Lindholm and Nancy Lord, moderated by …

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Categories Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, Events, For Writers

Upcoming online writing workshops at the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology

August 22, 2020 by John Yunker

If there is an upside to this pandemic (and I realize I’m grasping) it is that there are a wealth of online writing programs now available. I wanted to draw …

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Categories Ecology, Education, Events, For Writers, Writing Opportunities
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