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New Writing Opportunity: Everything Change Climate Fiction Contest

February 21, 2020 by John Yunker

Sponsored by the Imagination and Climate Futures Initiative at Arizona State University, the contest organizers are “looking for short stories that help us imagine how humans can live within Earth’s planetary boundaries—at the …

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

New online literary journal: Punt Volat

February 5, 2020 by John Yunker

Punt Volat “would like to see more work that does explore environmental issues, animal rights, and other such terrain in the form of fiction, poetry, or another artistic medium, especially …

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Writers: Protect yourself, and your work

February 4, 2020 by John Yunker

NOTE: I posted this two weeks ago on the ACP blog and realized that EcoLiterarians might find it useful, so here goes… To be a writer is to be vulnerable. …

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The list of outlets for environmental writing turns 70

January 31, 2020 by John Yunker

As in there are now 70 of them. Thanks for everyone who contributed. We actually just received another contribution today so the list will be turning 71 shortly. The next …

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Categories Anthropocene, Book Publishers, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, Endangered Species, For Writers, Journals and Magazines, Oceans, Plants, Pollution, Trees, What we're reading, Writing Opportunities

EcoLit Books Success Story: Marybeth Holleman

March 7, 2020January 26, 2020 by John Yunker
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

January 10, 2020 by John Yunker

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 …

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

Waterston Desert Writing Prize now open for submissions

January 6, 2020 by John Yunker

A unique award for a unique ecosystem… Now starting its sixth year, the Prize annually honors literary nonfiction that illustrates artistic excellence, sensitivity to place, and desert literacy – with …

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Writing Opportunity: The 2020 Calibre Essay Prize

December 11, 2019 by John Yunker

The Australian Book Review has announced its annual $7,500 Calibre Essay Prize. And while the contest may be located in Australia, it is open to writers everywhere. The list of …

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Become a volunteer narrative editor at The Trumpeter

December 4, 2019 by John Yunker

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 …

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Nominate your favorite writers for an Emerging Writer Fellowship at the Aspen Summer Words conference

November 22, 2019 by John Yunker

Aspen Words is offering 10 Emerging Writer Fellowships to its annual summer writing conference in, where else, Aspen, Colorado. Not a bad place to a little writing and reading! Here …

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Writing Opportunity: Poetry and essays on plant poetics

November 19, 2019November 5, 2019 by John Yunker

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 …

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