Writing Opportunity for Climate Change Poetry
There’s a new poetry prize in town, and it’s designated for “exceptional poems that help make real for readers the gravity of the vulnerable state of our environment at present.” …
Writing Opportunities
Writing Opportunity: Terrain Contest in Poetry, Nonfiction and Fiction
Terrain, one of the premier environmental journals, is now holding its 10th-annual writing contest across three genres. The judges are: Camille T. Dungy, PoetryCamille T. Dungy, the award-winning author of Trophic …
Notes from the ASLE Conference in Davis, California
ASLE is the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment. Every other year, the organization hosts a conference; this year it was at the University of California at …
New MFA in Nature Writing
Western Colorado University has launched a new MA/MFA program devoted to nature writing, which they are calling Earth StoryCraft: Earth StoryCraft marks intersecting social & environmental emergencies. We encourage imaginative …
Writing Opportunity: Mediating Art & Science
There’s a new environmental journal in town, called Media + Environment and published by the University of California Press. Media+Environment (officially written as Media and Environment) is an open access, …
Writing Opportunity: The Ginkgo Prize for Ecopoetry
If you’re a poet focused on environmental issues, the Ginkgo Prize is worth investigating. Submissions are not free (the first poem is is £7), but the awards are significant and …
Writing Opportunity: Stage plays focused on building a sustainable society
The UK-based Green Stories Writing Competition is looking for full-length plays that address sustainability — and, best of all, the contest is free to enter. Here are the details… We …
The Sexual Politics of Meat, 20 Years Later
The other day I saw an ad for a new model of Audi. In it, a woman enters a butcher shop, and the butcher, a female, knowing that this woman …
Writing Opportunity: Deep Wild Journal
Always great to see a new literary journal emerge — as well as this new opportunity for writers… Deep Wild Journal: Writing from the Backcountry, seeks submissions of poetry, fiction …
Waterston Desert Writing Prize Open for Submissions
I’m pasting below a unique writing opportunity: The Waterston Desert Writing Prize 2019 is now open for submissions. Applicants must submit online via Submittable through April 1,2019. The Prize honors …
Call for Short Stories: Our Entangled Future
Here’s an exciting new call for submissions from the UiO (University of Oslo) Department of Sociology and Human Geography: Attention writers and humanities researchers: this is a call for narratives …