Journals and Magazines

What We’re Reading: September 2019

September 15, 2019 by John Yunker

Midge Raymond This opinion piece in The Guardian shows in great detail why eating animals and animal products needs to be part of the conversation about climate change.https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/08/ipcc-land-climate-report-carbon-cost-meat-dairy This opinion piece in the New York Times uses both wit and wisdom to discuss why “vegans are irrefutably on the right side of history.” https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/28/opinion/vegan-food.html Jacki …

Writing Opportunity: Mediating Art & Science

June 19, 2019 by John Yunker

There’s a new environmental journal in town, called Media + Environment and published by the University of California Press. Media+Environment (officially written as Media and Environment) is an open access, online, peer-reviewed journal of transnational and interdisciplinary ecomedia research. The journal seeks to foster dialogue within a fast-growing global community of researchers and creators working …

Minding Nature: Winter

February 14, 2019 by John Yunker

The winter issue of Minding Nature (published by our contributor The Center for Humans and Nature out now and well worth reading (free download here). This issue features essays about democratic ecological citizenship, reflections on birdsong, sword ferns, and the cultural wisdom of animals, artistic responses to the Anthropocene, and some beautiful poetry scattered throughout.

Writing Opportunity: Deep Wild Journal

January 27, 2019 by John Yunker

Always great to see a new literary journal emerge — as well as this new opportunity for writers… Deep Wild Journal: Writing from the Backcountry, seeks submissions of poetry, fiction and nonfiction by March 15 for its inaugural issue, to be published this summer. The mission of Deep Wild is to provide a forum for …

The best environmental books we’ve read in 2018

December 20, 2020December 11, 2018 by John Yunker

This is our third year of recapping the best books we’ve read over the past year. Here are the 2017 and 2016 lists. We’re so glad that the number of both readers and reviewers of EcoLit Books have grown enough to now have an annual tradition of celebrating our favorite books of the year. And …

Call for Short Stories: Our Entangled Future

December 1, 2018 by John Yunker

Here’s an exciting new call for submissions from the UiO (University of Oslo) Department of Sociology and Human Geography: Attention writers and humanities researchers: this is a call for narratives that bring us closer to the potentiality of the present and activate “the politics of the possible” in our changing climate. Twelve stories will be …

The Goose seeks submissions on Art and Environmental Activism

November 24, 2018November 24, 2018 by John Yunker

The Goose, one of Canada’s leading literary journal devoted to the arts, environment and culture, is looking for submissions for a special issue that address art and environmental activism. Specifically, they are looking for submissions from artists, activists, and academics, such as: Visual art, poetry, prose, storytelling, craft, print and poster making, digital art, dance, …

Writing Opportunities: Center for Humans and Nature

September 5, 2018 by John Yunker

The Center for Humans and Nature contributes reviews to EcoLit Books. But did you know they also publish a blog, a journal (Minding Nature) and an ongoing series: Questions for a Resilient Future? And they are now looking for contributions. If you have a story to share, an idea to explore, check out their publication opportunities …

Six new additions to our list of environmental magazines and journals

August 31, 2018August 17, 2018 by John Yunker

We now have a list of 46 journals and magazines dedicated to environmental essays, stories and poetry. Here are five of the newest additions: EcoHustler http://www.ecohustler.co.uk Emergence Magazine https://emergencemagazine.org Wild Hope https://wildhope.org Gull www.gullzine.com Epizootics epizooticszine.wordpress.com Alterity www.alteritystudies.org/alterity-journal As always, if you have anything new to add to our list, let me know.

Opportunity for Writers: SAGE Magazine

January 23, 2018 by John Yunker

An interesting opportunity for environmental writers and artists — the window is closing quickly… We are inviting all members of the SAGE community to submit your stories, photographs, original artwork and more for inclusion in the upcoming 2018 Print Edition of SAGE Magazine. If you are interested submitting a piece for inclusion in the print …

Cold Mountain Review: Special Issue on Extinction

August 24, 2017 by John Yunker

Literary journal Cold Mountain Review is currently taking submissions for its Fall 2017 special issue devoted to extinction: As species decline globally at an accelerating rate, greater than at any time in the past 65 million years, we invite submissions that give voice to endangered and vanishing creatures, cultures, and tongues; re/imagine and express creaturely …