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Sea Change wins ASLE Book Award

July 29, 2025 by John Yunker

Congratulations to Christina Gerhardt and the University of California Press for winning the ASLE Book Award for Sea Change. I reviewed this beautiful book awhile back and want reiterate what …

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Categories Awards, Book Reviews, University of California Press

Book Review Flashback: Strange As This Weather Has Been by Ann Pancake

July 22, 2025 by John Yunker

In 2014, Midge Raymond reviewed a novel that paved the way for contemporary eco-literature, a powerful indictment of the horrors of mountaintop removal mining. Ann Pancake’s powerful novel Strange as This Weather …

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Categories Book Reviews, Fiction

Book Review: Little Great Island

July 20, 2025July 20, 2025 by JoeAnn Hart

A Novel, by Kate Woodworth Sibylline Press, 2025 Reviewed by JoeAnn Hart Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… the trees commingle their …

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Categories Book Reviews, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, Fiction, Gardening, Oceans, Organic Farming, Sustainability

Writing Opportunity: Bending the Arc

July 14, 2025 by John Yunker

Here’s a new opportunity for writers of poetry and prose, submissions closing July 31st: All submitted work must have a strong thrutopian element. Thrutopian writing imagines ways through to a world we would …

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Categories For Writers, Writing Opportunities

Book Review: Jane and Dan at the End of the World by Colleen Oakley

July 8, 2025 by Midge Raymond

This fun, witty novel opens on author Jane Brooks being questioned by police, not only as a witness to a crime but also because her novel was found in the …

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Categories Activism, Berkley, Book Reviews, Fiction

Writing Opportunity: Congaree Anthology

July 8, 2025 by John Yunker

Thanks to Cassie for letting us to know about this opportunity… Astonishing biodiversity exists in Congaree National Park, the largest intact expanse of old growth bottomland hardwood forest remaining in …

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Categories Conservation, Contest, Ecology, For Writers, Writing Opportunities

Writing Opportunity: Center for Humans and Nature

July 3, 2025 by John Yunker

Here’s an opportunity for writers of essays and poetry — closing soon! For our 2025 open call for digital submissions we welcome your writings and artwork on the theme of seeds as …

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Categories For Writers, Writing Opportunities

Book Review Flashback: Nature’s Best Hope by Douglas W. Tallamy

July 1, 2025 by John Yunker

In 2021, JoeAnn Hart reviewed a powerful book in which every landowner has a role to play in leaving this planet a bit better than they found it. As a …

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Categories Book Reviews, Flashback, Nonfiction

ASLE announces finalists for 2025 Book Awards

June 28, 2025 by John Yunker

ASLE has announced the finalists for its biennial book awards and I’m excited to see a few titles reviewed here at EcoLit Books, like Sea Change, Soil and The Last …

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Categories Anthropocene, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Conservation, Contest, Ecology, Endangered Species, Insects, Pets, Sustainability, What we're reading

Grant opportunity for Oregon artists

June 25, 2025 by John Yunker

For fellow Oregon writers, I’m happy along a wonderful grant opportunity for mid-career artists: The James F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation has announced the 2025 application guidelines for the …

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Categories For Writers, Writing Opportunities

Writing Opportunity: Catalogue Zine

June 22, 2025 by John Yunker

Catalogue Zine is an “environmentalist literary and arts magazine that seeks to encourage nuance in the climate conversation through art and to inspire climate action.” They are now open for …

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Categories For Writers, Journals and Magazines, Writing Opportunities
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