Writing Opportunity: Climate Fiction
It’s Freezing in LA is looking for climate fiction! Call out for our next special edition – a collection of climate fiction (Cli-fi) shorts! Have you been sitting on a …
Climate Change
Poetry in Dialogue with Polar Science: A writing opportunity
Here’s a fascinating new opportunity for poets from the Spring Creek Project: In partnership with PRAx and Terrain.org, Spring Creek Project is launching a national call for original poetry responding …
Book Review: The Thinning, by Inga Simpson
Akashic Books, June 2026 When the U.S. Supreme Court overturned federal abortion rights in 2025, there was a lot of chatter on social media telling women to delete their menstrual …
Book Review: Bogland – The Secret World That Defies Death and Protects Life
As a nursling of the rural Irish landscape, I was taken with the title of Merritt R. Turetsky’s book Bogland: The Secret World That Defies Death and Protects Life as …
The Moth Nature Writing Prize is open for submissions
The prize is open to one poem or piece of prose (fiction or non-fiction) of up to 4,000 words. Submission fee is €16. Learn more.
Sometimes An Island
A Mosaic Novel of Family Ties, Climate Upheaval, and Resilience, By Ellen Meeropol Sea Crow Press[1], March 2026 Sometimes An Island, a novel-in-stories by Ellen Meeropol, is set in the …
Wild Fictions; Essays on Literature, Empire, and the Environment by Amitav Ghosh
The University of Chicago Press, 2025 Among writers of climate and environmental fiction, Amitav Ghosh is known for his 2016 non-fiction book The Great Derangement, where he argues that fiction …
Lost Animals: Voices of Extinction
What would the last living passenger pigeon (seen in silhouette above) have to say if he or she were alive today? Or the Tasmanian tiger? Or the Carolina parakeet? In …
Bloom Again, A Novel by Marybeth Holleman
University of Alaska Press, 2025 Edward O. Wilson, a pioneer of evolutionary biology, once wrote, “Humanities will have to blend with the sciences, because technology is going to demand the …
Black Gold: Clearing the smoke on American coal
If I were to mention the words “black gold” you might picture oil (Thank you, Beverly Hillbillies). But the original black gold was coal and it is the title of …
Satellite: Essays of Fatherhood and Home, Near and Far by Simmons Buntin
Terra Firma Books, Trinity University Press, 2025 This fine collection of essays by Simmons Buntin, Satellite: Essays of Fatherhood and Home, Near and Far, leads with lizards. “They are tidy, …