Journals and Magazines

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 …

Q&A with Mary Woodbury of Moon Willow Press and Eco-Fiction.com

January 31, 2017January 30, 2017 by John Yunker

I’m pleased to welcome to EcoLit Books an interview we conducted recently with Mary Woodbury, founder of Moon Willow Press and Eco-Fiction.com. Mary also played an instrumental role in getting Ecofiction added to Wikipedia! You’re a writer and a publisher. Can you tell us a bit about your writing and how you came to found …

Introducing the Center for Humans and Nature

November 1, 2016 by John Yunker

I’m pleased to welcome a new contributor to EcoLit Books: The Center for Humans and Nature. This is an amazing organization and I thought a Q&A would be a great way for you to get to know them. What is the Center for Humans and Nature? We are an organization based in Chicago that explores and promotes …

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 anthology. The book will be launched on 2nd December at a Zoomorphic event hosted by ONCA as part of their “Do You Speak Seagull” season. The printed anthology will …

Introducing The Hopper

May 1, 2016May 1, 2016 by John Yunker

I’m pleased to introduce the new environmental literary journal The Hopper, along with a Q&A with the founders. Tell us a bit about The Hopper and how it came to be. Green Writers Press (our mother organization) produced one issue of a more casual and smaller distribution magazine called Greenzine last April 2015. When Sierra Dickey …

Zoomorphic magazine now accepting submissions

April 26, 2016 by John Yunker

We first introduced Zoomorphic a year ago with this Q&A. Zoomorphic is now accepting submissions for their next two issues. Here is the call: Zoomorphic magazine was founded a year ago and is now an established eco-literature publication. We have featured work by many award-winning and respected international writers in our first 5 issues. We …

Calls for submissions

November 2, 2015 by Midge Raymond

There are two new calls for submissions to announce for eco-minded writers. First, Flyway Journal seeks submissions for its Notes from the Field nonfiction contest, which celebrates writing about vivid experience, whether abroad, at home, in your line of work, or in any other unexpected environment. Flyway‘s guidelines: Submit one (1) work of creative nonfiction, previously unpublished, …

Introducing Zoomorphic

August 29, 2015July 1, 2015 by John Yunker

It’s always exciting to see a new literary journal launch with a focus on environment writing. So please welcome Zoomorphic, a new online journal founded by James Roberts and Susan Richardson and “dedicated to writing that deepens our connection with wildlife and the more-than-human world.” I recently conducted a brief Q&A to learn a bit more. Here …

Story Magazine accepting submissions for Un/Natural World issue

June 15, 2015 by Midge Raymond

Story Magazine is accepting submissions of prose for a new issue devoted to the environment: Climate change is one of the most significant issues of our time. How do we tell stories of it? How do its stories inform us? For Issue #4, send your best work in any form that explores the natural and built worlds here …