2022 Year in Review: Most popular books and posts
When I look at visitor stats for the past year, EcoLit Books has seen a steady increase in the number of daily visitors. We now average just over 200 unique …
Climate Change
DEFENSIBLE SPACES, stories by Alison Turner
DEFENSIBLE SPACES, stories by Alison Turner Torrey House Press February 2023 Fire! It’s everywhere in Alison Turner’s tightly knit collection of stories, from fireworks to a flaming ham, “a pink …
A new environmental journal Springs to life
As a fan of the Rachel Carson Center I was excited to see the recent launch of the first edition of Springs, their new environmental journal: The Rachel Carson Center (RCC) is …
Writing Opportunity: Our Ocean’d Earth
Here’s an opportunity to be a part of a very special anthology… The call is for nonfiction or fiction writing that conveys one clear and unified message: that our oceans are worth fighting …
Book Review: THE HIGH HOUSE by Jessie Greengrass
While Jessie Greengrass’s remarkable novel The High House is set primarily in a grim future, this is not purely dystopian fiction—in fact, it feels far more contemporary, like a novel …
Understories Writers’ Workshop is now taking applications
Before you read further, please note that this opportunity is intended for scholars and educators in Environmental Humanities. I’m not but, reading this, I wish I was… The University of …
EcoLit Books Roundup
There is only so much time to read all the amazing books we receive here at EcoLit Books. So I wanted to at least mention a few titles in our …
Book Review: The Treeline
As environmental activists have made clear for decades, the preservation of Earth’s forests is essential to the existence of life. And, yet, continued exploitation of this resource and the simultaneous …
Book Review: The Insect Crisis
The subtitle of the must-read book The Insect Crisis by Oliver Milman is The Fall of the Tiny Empires that Run the World. Tiny empires indeed. Consider the following: Three …
Book Review: Environment by Rolf Halden
If you were expecting a book called “Environment” to include an inspiring exploration of how trees communicate, poetic scenes of dolphins swimming gracefully through a blue ocean or an examination …
Residency opportunities for writers in Iowa, Oregon and New Mexico
We’ve mentioned these amazing residencies in the past but deadlines are coming up for the year ahead and I wanted to mention them again — also since I suspect many …