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Writing Opportunities

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

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

Writing Opportunity: The Wallace Stegner Prize in Environmental Humanities

October 16, 2019 by John Yunker
Wallace Stegner Prize

Here is an excellent opportunity presented by the University of Utah Press: The Wallace Stegner Prize will be awarded to the best monograph submitted to the Press in the broad …

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Categories Anthropocene, Awards, Book Publishers, Climate Change, Conservation, Contest, Endangered Species, For Writers, University of Utah Press, Writing Opportunities

Writing Opportunity: Michigan Quarterly Review

October 9, 2019 by John Yunker

Here’s a unique opportunity for writers of essays, fiction, poetry and, well, pretty much anything that focuses on water. Deadline is December 1st. Michigan Quarterly Review (MQR) is seeking submissions …

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Categories Anthropocene, Conservation, Essays, For Writers, Oceans, Writing Opportunities

Writing Opportunity: BeAnimal Autumn Writing Competition

October 2, 2019 by John Yunker

The India-based organization BeAnimal is sponsoring a writing contest with a grand prize of a trip to the Valley of Flowers National Park in India. There is no entry fee. …

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New Opportunities for Writers

September 17, 2019 by John Yunker

It’s submissions season for us writers and here are a few of particular interest to writers of environmental literature: Fire and Water Stories Fire & Water: Stories from the Anthropocene …

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Categories Anthropocene, Climate Change, Conservation, Endangered Species, For Writers, Journals and Magazines, Oceans, Pollution, Writing Opportunities

Writing Opportunity: The Siskiyou Prize for New Environmental Literature

September 1, 2019 by John Yunker

This is the fifth iteration of the Siskiyou Prize and submissions are open from now until December 31st. There is a $25 reading fee. This year’s judge is Carol J. Adams, …

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Writing Opportunity: Prose about climate change

August 24, 2019 by John Yunker

The literary journal apt is looking for writing that addresses climate change: For apt’s tenth print issue, we are seeking to publish fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, and comics that address climate …

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Categories Anthropocene, Climate Change, For Writers, Writing Opportunities
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