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Book Review: Pony Confidential by Christina Lynch

February 24, 2025 by Midge Raymond

Christina Lynch’s Pony Confidential is a light, highly readable mystery co-narrated by murder suspect Penny and her childhood pet, Pony, who comes to her rescue despite his lingering resentment that Penny sold …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animals, Berkley, Book Reviews, Fiction, Penguin Random House, Pets

Writing Opportunity: The Sun (Wild Animals)

February 21, 2025 by John Yunker

The Readers Write section in The Sun is one of the most-read sections of this popular magazine. I’m happy to pass along an opportunity that I suspect will resonate with …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animal Rights, Animals, For Writers, Writing Opportunities

New and forthcoming environmental books (February 2025)

June 13, 2025February 20, 2025 by John Yunker

So many amazing books. So little time to review them all… Solar Adobe: Energy, Ecology, and Earthen Architecture By Albert Narath How a centuries-old architectural tradition reemerged as a potential …

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Categories Activism, Animal Rights, Architecture, Book Reviews, Conservation, Earth Architecture, Ecology, Oceans, Veganism, W. W. Norton & Company

EcoLit Books Success Story: Talitha May

February 17, 2025 by John Yunker

An EcoLit Books success story doesn’t have to be limited to the written word. Reckoning features artwork by Talitha May who discovered the journal through our list of Literary Outlets …

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Categories Activism, Art, Ecology, Journals and Magazines, Organic Farming, Pollution, Success Story, Sustainability

Book Review: Why Animals Talk by Arik Kershenbaum

February 11, 2025 by Midge Raymond

In his book Why Animals Talk: The New Science of Animal Communication, Arik Kershenbaum notes that animal communication is a young science, and this addition to it, focusing on seven animals, …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Book Reviews, Nonfiction, Penguin Press

The latest environmental writing opportunities

February 9, 2025 by John Yunker

Today I updated our two lists devoted to environmental publishers and journals. To our list of literary outlets for environmental writing I added a new academic journal: Plant Perspectives. They …

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Categories For Writers, Journals and Magazines, Writing Opportunities

Call for Submissions: Companion Species

February 1, 2025 by John Yunker

Edge Effects is a digital magazine produced by graduate students at the Center for Culture, History, and Environment (CHE). They are currently seeking submissions around the theme of Companion Species. Submissions are …

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

Book Review: The Skunks by Fiona Warnick

January 29, 2025 by Midge Raymond

In Fiona Warnick’s novel The Skunks, recent college graduate Isabel moves back to her hometown to housesit, babysit, work at a yoga studio, and try to avoid thinking about boys. She …

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Categories Book Reviews, Fiction, Tin House

Animals in World History: The long-overlooked protagonists of our planet

January 26, 2025 by John Yunker

If history is written by the victors, then this book is a much-needed step forward in our awareness and understanding of the non-human animals who have suffered at the hands …

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Categories Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Conservation, History, Nonfiction, Pets, Routledge, What we're reading, Zoos

The Language of Trees, A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape by Katie Holten

February 8, 2025January 7, 2025 by JoeAnn Hart

Tin House, 2023 Hermann Hesse once wrote that the key to existential joy was in learning how to listen to the trees. There is also great pleasure to be had …

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Categories Book Reviews, Climate Change, Conservation, Earth Architecture, Ecology, Gardening, History, Nonfiction, Trees

Going to Seed, Essays on Idleness, Nature, & Sustainable Work

December 28, 2024 by JoeAnn Hart

By Kate J. Neville Texas Tech University Press, 2024, The Sowell Emerging Writers Prize Winner I read Going to Seed right before the U.S election, when I was full of …

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Categories Book Reviews, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, Essays, Nonfiction, Plants, Sustainability
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