EcoLit Books Success Story: Marybeth Holleman
Continuing our series on EcoLit Success Stories, I’m pleased to introduce Marybeth Holleman. Based out of Alaska, she is author of The Heart of the Sound (which was a Siskiyou …
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Writing Residency Opportunity: The Sitka Center for Art and Ecology
Located a few hours 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 …
Book Review: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Olga Tokarczuk’s Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead resists easy categorization. It is a dark comedy, murder mystery, treatise on animal rights, and tribute to English poet …
Become a volunteer narrative editor at The Trumpeter
The deep ecology journal The Trumpeter, based out of Canada’s Athabasca University, has openings for volunteer narrative editors, a great opportunity to develop hands-on environmental humanities experience. Applicants for Narrative …
Book Review: Rescue Dogs: Where They Come From, Why They Act the Way They Do, and How to Love Them Well
Pete Paxton hesitated upon hearing the command, “Jump inside.” Inside the trench, which was more than one hundred feet long, six feet wide, and six feet deep, lay dogs in …
Book Review: Defending Giants: The Redwood Wars and the Transformation of American Environmental Politics
A decade ago, not long after moving to Oregon, I traveled to Jedidiah Smith Redwoods State Park where I entered an old-growth coast redwood forest for the first time. To …
Writing Opportunity: Poetry and essays on plant poetics
Here’s an opportunity for contributions to a special issue on plant poetics. Submissions are open from November 1st to December 27th. Poems and scholarly essays are invited in response to …
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 …
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 …
Writing Opportunity: Michigan Quarterly Review
Here’s a unique opportunity for writers of essays, fiction, poetry and, well, pretty much anything that focuses on water. Deadline is December 1st. Michigan Quarterly Review (MQR) is seeking submissions …