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Animals

A much-needed journal debuts: Animal History

August 3, 2025 by John Yunker

There is a new academic journal worth checking out: Animal History. It is edited by Thomas Aiello, professor of History and Africana Studies at Valdosta State University; Susan Nance, professor …

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Categories Animal History, History, Horses, Journals and Magazines, What we're reading

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

New and forthcoming environmental books (June 2025)

June 15, 2025 by John Yunker

As we reach the halfway point of 2025 we have another exciting group of books to share. Enjoy! The Secret of Whylder Wood By Elaine Ramsey Park Woods and Whylder …

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Categories Animals, Pollution, Rewilding, What we're reading

Book Review: My Dog Always Eats First by Leslie Irvine

April 29, 2025April 29, 2025 by Midge Raymond

Even before beginning the research for her book My Dog Always Eats First: Homeless People & Their Animals, Leslie Irvine had been thinking about what it means for a human to …

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Categories Animals, Book Reviews, Nonfiction, Pets

Writing Opportunity: The Ecological Citizen

April 21, 2025 by John Yunker

I consider The Ecological Citizen to be a must-read journal. So I’m happy to pass along a (no fee) writing opportunity under the theme of Feral Lines: Step over the …

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Categories Animals, For Writers, Writing Opportunities

New and forthcoming environmental books (March 2025)

March 23, 2025 by John Yunker

I’m happy to share a new selection of environmentally themed books — including poetry, fiction and nonfiction. Please check them out… Green to Grey: An Environmental Anthology Edited by Ian …

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Categories Animal Rights, Animals, Anthropocene, Architecture, Conservation, Earth Architecture, Ecology, Fiction, Nonfiction, Oceans, Poetry, Veganism, W. W. Norton & Company

Book Review: The Universe in Verse

March 20, 2025March 20, 2025 by JoeAnn Hart

The Universe in Verse: 15 Portals to Wonder Through Science and Poetry By Maria Popova Illustrations by Ofra Amit Storey Publishing, 2024 If books are medicine, The Universe in Verse …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animals, Art, Birds, Book Reviews, Earth Architecture, Ecology, Gardening, Hachette Book Group, Insects, Nonfiction, Oceans, Plants, Poetry, Trees

Book Review: The Wild Horse Effect by Chad Hanson

March 10, 2025 by Midge Raymond

Chad Hanson’s gorgeous book The Wild Horse Effect: Awe, Well-Being, and the Transformative Power of Nature combines beautiful imagery of the West and wild horses with reflections on mindfulness, nature, …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animals, Art, Book Reviews, Chronicle Books, Conservation, Nonfiction, Sustainability

Book Review: Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy

March 4, 2025 by Midge Raymond

In Charlotte McConaghy’s lovely new novel, Wild Dark Shore, Dominic Salt and his family—eighteen-year-old Raff, seventeen-year-old Fen, and nine-year-old Orly—moved to Shearwater Island eight years earlier, when Dominic “needed a …

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Categories Animals, Anthropocene, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Eco-mystery, Ecology, Fiction, Macmillan, Oceans, Plants

Book Review: Pony Confidential by Christina Lynch

February 24, 2025 by Midge Raymond

Christina Lynch’s Pony Confidential is a light, highly readable mystery co-narrated by murder suspect Penny and her childhood pet, Pony, who comes to her rescue despite his lingering resentment that Penny sold …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animals, Berkley, Book Reviews, Fiction, Penguin Random House, Pets

Writing Opportunity: The Sun (Wild Animals)

February 21, 2025 by John Yunker

The Readers Write section in The Sun is one of the most-read sections of this popular magazine. I’m happy to pass along an opportunity that I suspect will resonate with …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animal Rights, Animals, For Writers, Writing Opportunities
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