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Success Story

EcoLit Books Success Story: Talitha May

February 17, 2025 by John Yunker

An EcoLit Books success story doesn’t have to be limited to the written word. Reckoning features artwork by Talitha May who discovered the journal through our list of Literary Outlets …

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Categories Activism, Art, Ecology, Journals and Magazines, Organic Farming, Pollution, Success Story, Sustainability

EcoLit Books Success Story: Speak of the Devils

September 21, 2024 by John Yunker

I love to share EcoLit Success Stories from authors who have used our extensive list of environmental outlets to find homes for their poetry, stories and essays. So I’d be …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Anthropocene, Conservation, Ecology, Endangered Species, Essays, Journals and Magazines, Rewilding, Success Story, Sustainability

Join us for Writing for Animals

February 5, 2024February 1, 2024 by Midge Raymond

We are thrilled to once again offer a live Zoom class for Writing for Animals, beginning March 2! We wanted to share a little bit about what you’ll be learning … …

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Categories Classes, EcoLit News, Education, Events, For Writers, Success Story, Writing Opportunities

EcoLit Books Success Story: Kath Donnelly

June 5, 2023 by John Yunker

One of the inspirations for EcoLit Books was to create a place where writers could find inspiration — and writing opportunities. I was happy to hear that author Kath Donnelly …

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Categories Anthropocene, Climate Change, For Writers, Journals and Magazines, Success Story

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 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

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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Categories Conservation, Ecology, Endangered Species, Essays, Q&A, Success Story

EcoLit Books Success Story: Heather Marie Spitzberg

September 11, 2019 by John Yunker

We at EcoLit Books are writers, so the initial impetus for our list of Literary Outlets for Environmental Writing was purely for our own use. But the list has grown …

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Categories Climate Change, For Writers, Oceans, Q&A, Success Story

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