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Q&A

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

Q&A with Christina Rivera, author of My Oceans

March 8, 2025 by John Yunker

Christina Rivera is an author from Colorado whose girlhood was bordered by coastlines of the Pacific Ocean. Her debut book, MY OCEANS was longlisted for the Graywolf Press Prize, a …

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Categories Author Q&A, Climate Change, Conservation, Oceans, Q&A, What we're reading

ARROYO CIRCLE: A Q&A with JoeAnn Hart

October 1, 2024 by Midge Raymond
Arroyo Circle by JoeAnn Hart

Float author JoeAnn Hart is one of our most prolific Ashland Creek Press authors. In addition to her pre-Float novel, Addled, she is the author of a memoir and an …

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Categories Anthropocene, Author Q&A, Birds, Climate Change, EcoLit News, Ecology, Q&A

Q&A with Bill Streever, author of A Sea Full of Turtles

June 18, 2024 by John Yunker

EcoLit contributor Bill Streever has a new book out, A Sea Full of Turtles, and it provides a hopeful antidote to the more dystopian environmental literature in bookstores today. Bill’s …

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Categories Author Q&A, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, Endangered Species, Oceans, Pollution, Q&A, Sustainability, What we're reading

Q&A with JoeAnn Hart, author of Highwire Act & Other Tales of Survival

September 6, 2023September 6, 2023 by John Yunker

JoeAnn Hart, long-time contributor to EcoLit Books, is the author of three novels (including Float) and a forthcoming short story collection from Black Lawrence Press: Highwire Act & Other Tales …

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Categories Anthropocene, Author Q&A, Birds, Climate Change, Conservation, Endangered Species, For Writers, Q&A, Rewilding, Sustainability, What we're reading

Interview with Groundglass author Kathryn Savage

July 25, 2022 by Lillie Gardner
black and white image of author Kathryn Savage

Kathryn Savage is a writer based in Minneapolis whose work has appeared in American Short Fiction, Ecotone Magazine, the Virginia Quarterly Review, BOMB, and the anthology Rewilding: Poems for the Environment. She recently chatted …

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Categories Pollution, Q&A

Interview with Bear Boy author Justin Barker

September 2, 2021 by Lillie Gardner

Justin Barker is an American animal activist, producer, and author of Bear Boy: The True Story of a Boy, Two Bears, and the Fight to Be Free. He recently chatted …

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Categories Animal Rights, Climate Change, Nonfiction, Q&A, Veganism

Introducing the journal Ecological Citizen

August 10, 2021 by John Yunker

We recently added The Ecological Citizen to our growing list of outlets for environmental writing. Editor Joe Gray was kind enough to answer a few questions about the journal: Tell …

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Categories Anthropocene, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, Endangered Species, For Writers, Journals and Magazines, Oceans, Q&A, Sustainability, Veganism, What we're reading, Writing Opportunities

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

Interview with BARN 8 author Deb Olin Unferth

April 19, 2020April 15, 2020 by Midge Raymond

Thanks so much to Deb Olin Unferth for chatting with us about her new novel, Barn 8, released last month from Graywolf Press. EcoLit Books: For your article “Cage Wars,” published …

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Categories Animal Rights, For Writers, Graywolf, Q&A, Veganism, What we're reading

Three Ways to Disappear: An interview with author Katy Yocom

March 5, 2020 by Midge Raymond

Last year, we published Three Ways to Disappear, winner of the 2016 Siskiyou Prize for New Environmental Literature (it was also a finalist for the Dzanc Books Disquiet Open Borders Book …

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Categories Animal Rights, Ashland Creek Press, Conservation, Endangered Species, Hunting, Q&A, What we're reading
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