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Book Review: FELLOWSHIP POINT by Alice Elliott Dark

September 16, 2024August 31, 2022 by Midge Raymond

Alice Elliott Dark’s beautiful, sprawling novel Fellowship Point is about land and stewardship, about nature and conservation, but more than that, it is a book of friendship across the decades …

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Categories Birds, Book Reviews, Conservation, Ecology, Fiction, Simon & Schuster

Book Review: Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz

August 18, 2022 by Melissa Dennihy

Winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Natalie Diaz’s Postcolonial Love Poem is a powerful collection of ecopoetry that forefronts the interconnectedness of humans, animals, land, and water. Throughout, …

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Categories Book Reviews, Conservation, Ecology, Endangered Species, Poetry, Pollution

A new environmental journal Springs to life

August 14, 2022 by John Yunker

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 …

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Categories Anthropocene, Birds, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, Endangered Species, Essays, For Writers, History, Journals and Magazines, Oceans, Oil, Plants, Pollution, Rewilding, Sustainability, What we're reading

Writing Opportunity: Our Ocean’d Earth

July 30, 2022 by John Yunker

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 …

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Categories Anthropocene, Climate Change, For Writers, Oceans, Writing Opportunities

Interview with Groundglass author Kathryn Savage

July 25, 2022 by Lillie Gardner
black and white image of author Kathryn Savage

Kathryn Savage is a writer based in Minneapolis whose work has appeared in American Short Fiction, Ecotone Magazine, the Virginia Quarterly Review, BOMB, and the anthology Rewilding: Poems for the Environment. She recently chatted …

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Categories Pollution, Q&A

Halcyon Journey: Searching for Kingfishers

June 30, 2022June 28, 2022 by John Yunker

Kingfishers are birds more often heard than seen. Walk next to Bear Creek here in the Rogue Valley and you will probably hear them, though seeing them is not so …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Birds, Book Reviews, Conservation, Ecology, Nonfiction, Oregon State University Press

Book Review: Groundglass by Kathryn Savage

June 21, 2022 by Lillie Gardner
book cover for Kathryn Savage's Groundglass, the words around broken fragments

Kathryn Savage’s gorgeous lyric essay Groundglass is a poetic reckoning with environmental pollution and its unavoidable connection to human bodies. In the book, available August 2nd from Coffee House Press, Savage blends tough …

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Categories Book Reviews, Nonfiction, Pollution

Book Review: THE HIGH HOUSE by Jessie Greengrass

May 28, 2022 by Midge Raymond

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 …

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Categories Book Reviews, Climate Change, Fiction, Simon & Schuster

Understories Writers’ Workshop is now taking applications

May 7, 2022 by John Yunker

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 …

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Categories Climate Change, Conservation, For Writers, Residency, Writing Opportunities

EcoLit Books Roundup

April 24, 2022 by John Yunker

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 …

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Categories Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, Endangered Species, Gardening

79 million U.S. households are now buying plant-based products

April 5, 2022 by John Yunker

Animal agriculture is one of the most environmentally damaging industries on our planet — not to mention unfathomably cruel. And though there are times when I wonder if we as …

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Categories Veganism
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