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EcoLit Books Success Story: Cassie Premo Steele

July 19, 2021July 18, 2021 by John Yunker

Cassie Premo Steele is the author of Earth Joy Writing: Creating Harmony through Journaling and Nature, which was published by Ashland Creek Press in 2015. Since then, Cassie published two books …

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Categories Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, For Writers, Success Story, Trees

Writing Opportunity: Plant People, An Anthology of Environmental Artists

June 16, 2021 by John Yunker

Here’s a new anthology that is in need of contributors… We are thrilled to announce our first anthology that features poets, writers, and artists from around the world. This collection …

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Categories Conservation, For Writers, Gardening, Insects, Journals and Magazines, Organic Farming, Plants, Sustainability, Trees, Writing Opportunities

Book Review: Waiting for the Night Song

May 28, 2021 by Mindy Mejia
Waiting for the Night Song review

Crimes against man and nature collide in Waiting for the Night Song, a vivid and compelling environmental thriller by Julie Carrick Dalton. Dalton is a journalist, writer, and frequent speaker …

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Categories Book Reviews, Climate Change, Fiction, Insects, Trees

Book Review: Touching Creatures, Touching Spirit by Judy Grahn

May 6, 2021 by Lillie Gardner

The stories and essays of Touching Creatures, Touching Spirit: Living in a Sentient World form a beautiful tapestry of communications across species and consciousness. From grateful dragonflies to fatherless strawberries to companionable …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Birds, Book Reviews, Ecology, Essays, Insects, Nonfiction, Pets, Plants, Trees

Book Review: IN THE COMPANY OF MEN

May 5, 2021 by Midge Raymond

Véronique Tadjo’s slender, haunting novel In the Company of Men offers myriad points of view—human and nonhuman—in its story of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa in 2014. Published in …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Anthropocene, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Ecology, Fiction, Trees

Book Review: Irreplaceable by Julian Hoffman

March 29, 2021 by Midge Raymond

In Irreplaceable: The Fight to Save Our Wild Places, Julian Hoffman shows us endangered habitats and the creatures who inhabit them—as well as the humans who are fighting to save …

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Categories Anthropocene, Birds, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, Endangered Species, Essays, History, Nonfiction, Oceans, Plants, Sustainability, Trees, University of Georgia Press

2/3 for the birds

March 14, 2021 by John Yunker

We’re losing birds, by the billions. Which is why I wanted to mention a movement in which you devote 2/3 of your land to native species of plants. If we …

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Categories Birds, Conservation, Ecology, Education, Endangered Species, Gardening, Insects, Plants, Sustainability, Trees

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

Join Rewilding Our Stories

November 15, 2020 by John Yunker

Our friends Mary Woodbury of Dragonfly.eco and Lovis Geir from Ecofictology have partnered to create a virtual community of writers and readers passionate about environmental literature. The network is hosted …

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Categories Book Reviews, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, Ecomedia, Education, Endangered Species, For Writers, Pollution, Sustainability, Trees, Writing Opportunities

New and upcoming book releases

September 15, 2020 by John Yunker

Sadly, we cannot review everything we receive here at EcoLit Books — but I did want to highlight a few new and newly republished works… The Lives and Deaths of …

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Categories Animal Rights, Book Publishers, Conservation, Ecology, Ecomedia, Endangered Species, Fiction, History, Nonfiction, Pets, Poetry, Trees, What we're reading

Review: Building a Better World in Your Backyard

October 17, 2023February 26, 2020 by John Yunker

When it comes to nonfiction environmental books these days, I feel that we’re reaching “peek dystopia.” Or, at least I hope we are. Because it seems that between books about …

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Categories Architecture, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, Gardening, Nonfiction, Organic Farming, Plants, Pollution, Trees
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