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 …
Climate Change
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.” …
Writing Opportunity: Terrain Contest in Poetry, Nonfiction and Fiction
Terrain, one of the premier environmental journals, is now holding its 10th-annual writing contest across three genres. The judges are: Camille T. Dungy, PoetryCamille T. Dungy, the award-winning author of Trophic …
Notes from the ASLE Conference in Davis, California
ASLE is the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment. Every other year, the organization hosts a conference; this year it was at the University of California at …
New MFA in Nature Writing
Western Colorado University has launched a new MA/MFA program devoted to nature writing, which they are calling Earth StoryCraft: Earth StoryCraft marks intersecting social & environmental emergencies. We encourage imaginative …
Writing Opportunity: Mediating Art & Science
There’s a new environmental journal in town, called Media + Environment and published by the University of California Press. Media+Environment (officially written as Media and Environment) is an open access, …
