What I’m reading in the New York Times
A few articles that I bookmarked in the Times over the past two weeks… How Do the New Plant-Based Burgers Stack Up? We Taste-Tested Them I agree that Impossible Burgers …
Climate Change
Writing Opportunity: The Wallace Stegner Prize in Environmental Humanities
Here is an excellent opportunity presented by the University of Utah Press: The Wallace Stegner Prize will be awarded to the best monograph submitted to the Press in the broad …
Book Review: Gardenland: Nature, Fantasy, and Everyday Practice
When you hear the word “garden” do you picture something like this: Or do you picture something more like this: The fact that these are both “gardens” illustrates just how …
New Opportunities for Writers
It’s submissions season for us writers and here are a few of particular interest to writers of environmental literature: Fire and Water Stories Fire & Water: Stories from the Anthropocene …
What We’re Reading: September 2019
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 …
EcoLit Books Success Story: Heather Marie Spitzberg
We at EcoLit Books are writers, so the initial impetus for our list of Literary Outlets for Environmental Writing was purely for our own use. But the list has grown …
Braiding Sweetgrass: Finding a way through environmental despair
At the ASLE conference earlier this summer I heard this book referenced in a number of sessions. And now, having read it, I realize why. Braiding Sweetgrass is a rich …
“Penguins are in trouble”
This from a sobering research report published last week by some of the world’s leading experts on penguins. The report notes that “more than half of the world’s 18 penguin …
Writing Opportunity: Prose about climate change
The literary journal apt is looking for writing that addresses climate change: For apt’s tenth print issue, we are seeking to publish fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, and comics that address climate …
Writing Opportunity for Climate Change Poetry
There’s a new poetry prize in town, and it’s designated for “exceptional poems that help make real for readers the gravity of the vulnerable state of our environment at present.” …