EcoLit Books Success Story: Marybeth Holleman
Continuing our series on EcoLit Success Stories, I’m pleased to introduce Marybeth Holleman. Based out of Alaska, she is author of The Heart of the Sound (which was a Siskiyou …
Writing Residency Opportunity: The Sitka Center for Art and Ecology
Located a few hours north and west of us here in Ashland, Oregon, the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology provides educational courses and residencies to artists. And they’re now …
Waterston Desert Writing Prize now open for submissions
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 …
Book Review: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Olga Tokarczuk’s Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead resists easy categorization. It is a dark comedy, murder mystery, treatise on animal rights, and tribute to English poet …
The best environmental books we’ve read in 2019
Looking back on the year, I’m happy to see that a novel that made our best books list in 2018 won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize: The Overstory by Richard Powers …
Writing Opportunity: The 2020 Calibre Essay Prize
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 …
Become a volunteer narrative editor at The Trumpeter
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 …
Book Review: Rescue Dogs: Where They Come From, Why They Act the Way They Do, and How to Love Them Well
Pete Paxton hesitated upon hearing the command, “Jump inside.” Inside the trench, which was more than one hundred feet long, six feet wide, and six feet deep, lay dogs in …
Nominate your favorite writers for an Emerging Writer Fellowship at the Aspen Summer Words conference
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 …
Book Review: Defending Giants: The Redwood Wars and the Transformation of American Environmental Politics
A decade ago, not long after moving to Oregon, I traveled to Jedidiah Smith Redwoods State Park where I entered an old-growth coast redwood forest for the first time. To …
Writing Opportunity: Poetry and essays on plant poetics
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 …