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Writing Opportunities

Writing opportunity: 2024 Thoreau Society Fellowships

January 10, 2024 by John Yunker

The Thoreau Society is pleased to announce that it will offer two $1,000 fellowships in 2024 to support scholarly and creative work on Henry David Thoreau, including his writings, life …

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The Ecological Citizen is looking for rewilding success stories

October 27, 2023 by John Yunker

The editorial team of The Ecological Citizen is looking for submissions of rewinding success stories: The pieces we publish are short (generally around 750 words) and describe inspiring stories about …

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Categories Conservation, Endangered Species, For Writers, Journals and Magazines, Rewilding, Writing Opportunities

Call for EcoLit Contributors

July 9, 2023 by John Yunker

We receive between 3 and 6 book pitches a week. Which, given the limited number of contributors we have, means we have to pass on the vast majority of books. …

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The More-Than-Human World: Call for Submissions

July 1, 2023 by John Yunker

Here’s an exciting writing opportunity from About Place Journal (no fee)! I might be submitting as well, so don’t everyone rush in… Learn more here

Categories Animal Behavior, Animal Rights, Climate Change, Conservation, For Writers, Journals and Magazines, Veganism, Writing Opportunities

A call for animal-themed stories and essays

January 31, 2023 by John Yunker

The international literary journal Asymptote has put out a call for the submissions of “animal-themed fictional and non-fictional writings for our special feature in the issue of April 2023.” You …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animal Rights, For Writers, Writing Opportunities

Help us surpass 100 literary outlets for environmental literature

September 17, 2022 by John Yunker

If you’ve visited our slowly growing list of environmental literary (and journalistic) outlets, you’ll have noticed that we’ve been approaching 100 for the past few months. As of today we’re …

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Writing Opportunity: Our Ocean’d Earth

July 30, 2022 by John Yunker

Here’s an opportunity to be a part of a very special anthology… The call is for nonfiction or fiction writing that conveys one clear and unified message: that our oceans are worth fighting …

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Categories Anthropocene, Climate Change, For Writers, Oceans, Writing Opportunities

Green Stories short story competition

June 12, 2022 by John Yunker

Here’s a short story contest worth looking into (and free to submit)… Often when promoting waste reduction and reduction of high-energy activities, such as running hot water, we come up …

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Understories Writers’ Workshop is now taking applications

May 7, 2022 by John Yunker

Before you read further, please note that this opportunity is intended for scholars and educators in Environmental Humanities. I’m not but, reading this, I wish I was… The University of …

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

Ecofiction on Reddit

May 4, 2022 by John Yunker

Our good friend Mary Woodbury has created a subreddit devoted to Ecofiction: A place to find meaningful fictional stories about our natural world and humanity’s connection with it. The subreddit …

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Residency opportunities for writers in Iowa, Oregon and New Mexico

March 14, 2022February 13, 2022 by John Yunker

We’ve mentioned these amazing residencies in the past but deadlines are coming up for the year ahead and I wanted to mention them again — also since I suspect many …

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