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Writing Opportunities

Writing Opportunity: Stage plays focused on building a sustainable society

April 13, 2019 by John Yunker

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 …

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Categories Climate Change, Conservation, Contest, For Writers, Organic Farming, Writing Opportunities

The Sexual Politics of Meat, 20 Years Later

September 29, 2019March 25, 2019 by John Yunker

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 …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animal Rights, Bloomsbury, Contest, For Writers, Veganism, Writing Opportunities

Writing Opportunity: Deep Wild Journal

January 27, 2019 by John Yunker

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 …

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Waterston Desert Writing Prize Open for Submissions

January 7, 2019 by John Yunker

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 …

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Categories Conservation, Contest, For Writers, Writing Opportunities

Call for Short Stories: Our Entangled Future

December 1, 2018 by John Yunker

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 …

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

The Goose seeks submissions on Art and Environmental Activism

November 24, 2018November 24, 2018 by John Yunker

The Goose, one of Canada’s leading literary journal devoted to the arts, environment and culture, is looking for submissions for a special issue that address art and environmental activism. Specifically, …

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

Take a free online class at the University of Iowa: The Story of Place

November 9, 2018 by John Yunker

You can’t find a better deal than this — a free online class from the International Writing Program (the IWP) at the University of Iowa: Stories of Place: Writing and the Natural …

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Writing Opportunities: Center for Humans and Nature

September 5, 2018 by John Yunker

The Center for Humans and Nature contributes reviews to EcoLit Books. But did you know they also publish a blog, a journal (Minding Nature) and an ongoing series: Questions for a …

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

Six new additions to our list of environmental magazines and journals

August 31, 2018August 17, 2018 by John Yunker

We now have a list of 46 journals and magazines dedicated to environmental essays, stories and poetry. Here are five of the newest additions: EcoHustler  http://www.ecohustler.co.uk Emergence Magazine   https://emergencemagazine.org Wild Hope  …

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Categories For Writers, Journals and Magazines, Writing Opportunities

Opportunity for Writers: SAGE Magazine

January 23, 2018 by John Yunker

An interesting opportunity for environmental writers and artists — the window is closing quickly… We are inviting all members of the SAGE community to submit your stories, photographs, original artwork …

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Categories For Writers, Journals and Magazines, Writing Opportunities

Opportunity for Writers: Art after Nature from The University of Minnesota Press

January 18, 2018 by John Yunker

I’ve long been a fan of Antennae, a literary/artistic journal created and curated by Giovanni Aloi. So I was thrilled to see that the University of Minnesota Press is partnering with …

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Categories Animal Rights, Anthropocene, Climate Change, Conservation, For Writers, Nonfiction, Writing Opportunities
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