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Eastern Oregon University offers new MFA concentration focused on Wilderness, Ecology, and Community

March 12, 2021 by John Yunker

A year ago we began compiling a list of writing programs with a focus on the environment and animals. The latest addition to the list is EOU’s new low-residency MFA …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animal Rights, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, Endangered Species, For Writers, History, Sustainability, Writing Opportunities

When a vegetarian crashes a hunting party: The Shooting Party by Isabel Colegate

March 22, 2021March 11, 2021 by John Yunker

I’m not sure how I heard about this novel, only that I had heard that there was an animal rights element to it. Yet in the early pages I struggled …

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Categories Book Reviews, Fiction, History, Hunting

Writing opportunity: PANK Magazine special issue on environmental futures

February 14, 2021 by John Yunker

PANK Magazine is now accepting works (poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, hybrid) for a special issue: Environmental Futures Folio, guest edited by Aram Mrjoian. Here’s the call: The health and sustainability …

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Categories Anthropocene, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, Endangered Species, For Writers, Oceans, Sustainability, Writing Opportunities

Book Review: Earth’s Wild Music: Celebrating and Defending the Songs of the Natural World

February 11, 2021 by Jacki Skole

The natural world is in crisis. Rising sea levels. Burning forests. Species extinction. Climate change is leaving no one and no thing unaffected. At this precarious moment, what becomes the …

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Categories Book Reviews, Climate Change, Conservation, Counterpoint Press, Endangered Species, Essays, Nonfiction

Book Review: Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica (translated from the Spanish by Sarah Moses)

February 10, 2021 by Lillie Gardner

In Tender is the Flesh, Agustina Bazterrica expertly crafts a horrifying reality that feels too contemporary to be the future. A virus has decimated the world’s animal population. Societies around …

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Categories Book Reviews, Fiction, Simon & Schuster, Veganism

Sitka Center now accepting residency applications

February 8, 2021 by John Yunker

Located north and west of us here in Ashland, Oregon, the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology provides educational courses and residencies to artists. And they’re now open for residency …

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Categories Anthropocene, Conservation, Ecology, Endangered Species, For Writers, Oceans, Sustainability, Trees, Wolves, Writing Opportunities, Writing Residency

Review: The Yield by Tara June Winch

February 2, 2021 by John Yunker

I didn’t plan to read the nonfiction book Dark Emu shortly before reading the novel The Yield by Tara June Winch. But I couldn’t think of a better pairing. While …

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Categories Book Reviews, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, Fiction, Harper Perennial, History, Sustainability, What we're reading

New and Upcoming Environmental Books

February 2, 2021 by John Yunker

Here is a small selection of new and forthcoming environmental books that have come across our inboxes… Persephone in the Late Anthropocene This ecopoetic collection interweaves the voices of Persephone, …

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Categories Anthropocene, Conservation, Ecology

Upcoming event: Evolving Beyond Animal Ag

January 30, 2021 by John Yunker

Imagine that you’re an nth-generation farmer and you’ve been raised to continue business as usual in animal agriculture. But you can’t help but notice that the world is changing around …

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Categories Animal Rights, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, Education, Events, For Writers, Organic Farming, Plants, Pollution, Sustainability, Veganism

Book Review: The Reign of Wolf 21

January 29, 2021 by Olivia Radbill
reign of wolf 21 cover

The Druid Wolf Pack of Yellowstone National Park has garnered international notoriety over the last 20 years. Established in the mid-1990s, the Druid Wolf Pack was at one point the …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Book Reviews, Greystone Books, Nonfiction, Wolves

Apply now for the Aldo and Estella Leopold Residency

January 23, 2021 by John Yunker

What a wonderful opportunity for writers. Each year, two writers become residents for up to a month between May and October. Each resident receives a $750 stipend and, in exchange, …

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