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Call for submissions: Turku Book Prize 2021

October 24, 2020 by John Yunker

The European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) and the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (RCC) are sponsoring the Turku Book Prize in environmental history. The winner will receive …

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Categories Contest, For Writers, History, Writing Opportunities

Upcoming Virtual Event: Women Writing the Natural World

October 17, 2020 by John Yunker

Here’s an excellent event coming up this Monday at 7pm PST on Zoom and Facebook. The event features writers Corinna Cook, Marybeth Holleman, Adrienne Lindholm and Nancy Lord, moderated by …

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Categories Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, Events, For Writers

Upcoming online writing workshops at the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology

August 22, 2020 by John Yunker

If there is an upside to this pandemic (and I realize I’m grasping) it is that there are a wealth of online writing programs now available. I wanted to draw …

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Categories Ecology, Education, Events, For Writers, Writing Opportunities

Terrain’s 11th annual writing contest closes September 7

August 21, 2020 by John Yunker

A quick reminder that Terrain is accepting submissions in poetry, nonfiction, and fiction until September 7 The first-place winner in each genre will be awarded $500 plus publication. Finalists in …

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Categories Contest, For Writers, Writing Opportunities

Green Stories Writing Competition: Stories for children

August 5, 2020 by John Yunker

If you’ve got a children’s story focused on making this world a better place, check out this free writing competition: We are looking for stories for children that in some …

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Categories Children's Books, Climate Change, Conservation, Contest, Ecology, Endangered Species, For Writers, Writing Opportunities

New environmental journal: Ecocene

July 29, 2020 by John Yunker

Always nice to see the emergence of a new environmental publication. This one is called Ecocene and is published by the Cappadocia University Environmental Humanities Center. The inaugural issue is …

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Categories Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, Ecomedia, Endangered Species, For Writers, History, Journals and Magazines, Pollution, What we're reading, Writing Opportunities

Writing for deer; writing for animals

July 21, 2020 by John Yunker

Summer in Ashland, Oregon, means fawns following their mothers through the streets of our small town. The local deer are, sadly, a contentious issue. Many residents resent their appetites for …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animal Rights, For Writers, Hunting, Success Story, Veganism, What we're reading

New writing opportunity: The Moth Nature Writing Prize

July 16, 2020 by John Yunker

This is exciting! The Moth Magazine has announced its inaugural Moth Nature Writing Prize, featuring Richard Mabey as judge: The Prize will be awarded to an unpublished piece of writing …

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Categories Awards, For Writers, Journals and Magazines, Writing Opportunities

Announcing the winner of the Siskiyou Prize

April 19, 2021May 8, 2020 by Midge Raymond

We are delighted to announce that Athena E. Copenhaver is the winner of the 2019 Siskiyou Prize for New Environmental Literature, for her novel MY DAYS OF DARK GREEN EUPHORIA.  The award’s …

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Interview with BARN 8 author Deb Olin Unferth

April 19, 2020April 15, 2020 by Midge Raymond

Thanks so much to Deb Olin Unferth for chatting with us about her new novel, Barn 8, released last month from Graywolf Press. EcoLit Books: For your article “Cage Wars,” published …

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Categories Animal Rights, For Writers, Graywolf, Q&A, Veganism, What we're reading

Writing Opportunity: And Lately, the Sun

March 11, 2020 by John Yunker

Now that so many of us are hibernating these days, there’s more time to write and submit. Such as to this planned anthology… Our project, “And Lately, The Sun”, explores …

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