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Opportunities for writers of animal-centric stories and essays, care of the ASLE

July 16, 2016July 15, 2016 by John Yunker

ASLE (The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment)  listed a few calls for submission that caught my eye: Writing Meat: Flesh-Eating and Literature Since 1900 The conversion of animal …

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Categories Animal Rights, Climate Change, Conservation, For Writers, Pollution, Veganism, Writing Opportunities

Calling all Vegan Poets

June 29, 2016 by John Yunker

Barefoot Vegan Magazine is looking for poems for an upcoming book collection. The deadline is July 31, 2016. To learn more and submit click here.  

Categories For Writers, Veganism, Writing Opportunities

Book Review: Lab Girl

September 29, 2019June 24, 2016 by Jacki Skole

I approached Hope Jahren’s memoir, Lab Girl, with a bit of trepidation. You see, Jahren is an award-winning geobiologist who studies plants, making her area of expertise one in which …

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Categories Book Reviews, Conservation, Nonfiction, Trees, Vintage

My Last Continent: A Novel by Midge Raymond

June 21, 2016 by John Yunker

I’m happy to announce the publication of contributor Midge Raymond’s debut novel My Last Continent (Scribner). This novel wears the “eco-fiction” label quite well. The novel focuses on penguin researchers in Antarctica …

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Categories Birds, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Endangered Species, Fiction, Oceans, Veganism

Engineering Eden: The True Story of a Violent Death, a Trial, and the Fight over Controlling Nature

September 29, 2019June 14, 2016 by John Yunker

The National Park Service is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. And while a century may seem like a long time, it’s safe to say, after reading Engineering Eden, that …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Book Reviews, Crown, Endangered Species, Nonfiction, Wolves

Holy Mōlī: Albatross and Other Ancestors

September 29, 2019May 8, 2016 by John Yunker

The Laysan albatross is known as Mōlī in Hawaiian. It is difficult not to speak in superlatives when describing the albatross. The bird has a wingspan longer than most humans are …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Birds, Book Reviews, Conservation, Endangered Species, Nonfiction, Oceans, Oregon State University Press

Book Review: Whippoorwill

May 8, 2016May 1, 2016 by Anna Monders

When sixteen-year-old Clair Taylor’s neighbors get a dog and leave him staked in the yard in freezing weather, she tries to ignore the whimpers and cries—the clear neglect—that is going …

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Categories Animal Rights, Children's Books, Fiction

Zoomorphic magazine now accepting submissions

April 26, 2016 by John Yunker

We first introduced Zoomorphic a year ago with this Q&A. Zoomorphic is now accepting submissions for their next two issues. Here is the call: Zoomorphic magazine was founded a year …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animal Rights, Journals and Magazines, Writing Opportunities

Book Review: Rescued

September 29, 2019April 24, 2016 by Mindy Mejia

Rescued, Eliot Schrefer’s third entry in his anticipated quartet of ape novels published by Scholastic, represents a departure in many ways from the first two books in the series. Endangered and …

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Categories Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Children's Books, Endangered Species, Fiction, Scholastic Press

Cloak and Jaguar: Following a Cat from Desert to Courtroom

February 22, 2016February 19, 2016 by John Yunker

Living in Southern Oregon, we’ve followed the comings and goings of a gray wolf named OR-7. When it dipped into Northern California, it became the first documented wolf in that …

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Categories Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Conservation, Endangered Species, Nonfiction

Book Review: The Penguin Lessons by Tom Michell

September 29, 2019January 20, 2016 by Midge Raymond

The Penguin Lessons is the story of a young Englishman who, on vacation in Uruguay from his teaching job at a boarding school in Argentina, rescues an oil-covered Magellanic penguin. …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animal Rights, Ballantine Books, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Conservation, Nonfiction, Oceans, Oil, Pollution
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