Literary Outlets for Environmental Writing

We’ve compiled a list of publications devoted in large part to eco-literature — essays, articles, short stories, poetry. Last updated on January 20, 2023.

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  1. About Place Journal (www.aboutplacejournal.org)
  2. African Conservation Telegraph (https://conbio.org/groups/sections/africa/act)
  3. Alluvian (www.alluvian.space)
  4. Alterity (www.alteritystudies.org/alterity-journal)
  5. Among Animals (An anthology series from Ashland Creek Press)
  6. Anabiosis Press (www.anabiosispress.org)
  7. Antennae (www.antennae.org.uk)
  8. Anthropocene Magazine (www.anthropocenemagazine.org)
  9. Art after Nature (a forthcoming book series)
  10. Artis Natura (www.artisnatura.com)
  11. Ashland Creek Press (www.ashlandcreekpress.com)
  12. Camas (www.umt.edu/camas)
  13. Canary (www.hippocketpress.com/canary)
  14. Caught by the River (www.caughtbytheriver.net)
  15. Center for Humans and Nature (www.humansandnature.org)
  16. Channel (www.channelmag.org)
  17. Newly Added: Cirque: A Literary Journal for the North Pacific Rim (www.cirquejournal.com)
  18. Claw & Blossom (clawandblossom.com)
  19. Cold Mountain Review (www.coldmountainreview.org)
  20. Dark Mountain (https://dark-mountain.net)
  21. Deep Wild Journal (www.deepwildjournal.com)
  22. Dragonfly.eco (www.dragonfly.eco)
  23. Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities  (www.ecocene.kapadokya.edu.tr)
  24. EcoHustler (www.ecohustler.co.uk)
  25. Ecological Citizen (www.ecologicalcitizen.net)
  26. EcoTheo (www.ecotheo.org)
  27. Ecotone (www.ecotonemagazine.org)
  28. Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment (www.ecozona.eu)
  29. Edge Effects (https://edgeeffects.net)
  30. Elsewhere (www.elsewhere-journal.com)
  31. Elementum (www.elementumjournal.com)
  32. Newly Added: Emagazine (www.emagazine.com)
  33. Emergence Magazine (www.emergencemagazine.org)
  34. Environmental Humanities (https://read.dukeupress.edu/environmental-humanities)
  35. Epizootics (www.epizooticszine.wordpress.com)
  36. Ferns: The Graduate Journal on Environmental Stewardship (www.fernsjournal.com)
  37. Flycatcher (www.flycatcherjournal.org)
  38. Flyway (www.flywayjournal.org)
  39. Gaia Lit (https://gaialit.weebly.com)
  40. Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism (www.tandfonline.com/loi/rgrl20)
  41. Grist (www.grist.org)
  42. Gull (www.gullzine.com)
  43. ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment (www.asle.org/research-write/isle-journal)
  44. Journal of Critical Animal Studies (http://journalforcriticalanimalstudies.org)
  45. Journal of Sustainability Education (www.journalofsustainabilityeducation.com)
  46. High Country News (www.hcn.org)
  47. Humana Obscura (www.humanaobscura.com)
  48. Kelp Journal (www.kelpjournal.com)
  49. Kosmos Journal (www.kosmosjournal.org)
  50. Liminal Spaces (www.liminalspacesmagazine.com)
  51. Literary Veganism: An Online Journal (www.litvegan.net)
  52. Matador Review (www.matadorreview.com)
  53. Mānoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing (https://manoa.hawaii.edu/manoajournal)
  54. Media + Environment (https://mediaenviron.org)
  55. Newfound (www.newfoundjournal.org)
  56. Northern Woodlands Magazine (www.northernwoodlands.org)
  57. ON Nature (www.onnaturemagazine.com)
  58. Orion Magazine (www.orionmagazine.org)
  59. Otherness: Essays and Stories (www.otherness.dk/journal)
  60. Paperbark Literary Magazine (www.paperbarkmag.org)
  61. Peaceful Dumpling (www.peacefuldumpling.com)
  62. Permaculture Magazine (www.permaculture.co.uk)
  63. Plant-Human Quarterly (www.otherwisecollective.com)
  64. Plants & Poetry Journal (www.plantsandpoetry.org/journal)
  65. Poecology (www.poecology.org)
  66. Punt Volat (www.puntvolatlit.com)
  67. Places Journal (www.placesjournal.org)
  68. Plumwood Mountain: An Australian Journal of Ecopoetry and Ecopoetics (www.plumwoodmountain.com)
  69. Reckoning (www.reckoning.press)
  70. Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities (www.resiliencejournal.org)
  71. Resurgence & Ecologist (www.resurgence.org)
  72. Saltfront: Studies in Human Habit(at) (www.saltfront.org)
  73. Sierra Magazine (www.sierramagazine.org)
  74. Sinking City (www.sinkingcitylitmag.com)
  75. Sloth: A Journal of Emerging Voices in Human-Animal Studies (For undergraduate students: www.animalsandsociety.org/pages/sloth)
  76. Snowy Egret (www.snowyegret.net)
  77. Newly Added: Solarpunk Magazine (www.solarpunkmagazine.com)
  78. Stonecoast Review (www.stonecoastreview.org)
  79. Stonecrop Review (www.stonecropreview.com)
  80. Terrain (www.terrain.org)
  81. The Bear Deluxe (www.orlo.org)
  82. The Clearing (www.littletoller.co.uk/the-clearing)
  83. Columbia Insight (www.columbiainsight.org)
  84. The Common (www.thecommononline.org)
  85. The Curlew (www.the-curlew.com)
  86. The Fourth River (fourthriver.chatham.edu)
  87. The Goose (http://scholars.wlu.ca/thegoose)
  88. The Hopper (www.hoppermag.org)
  89. Newly Added: The Journal of Wild Culture (www.wildculture.com)
  90. The Learned Pig (www.thelearnedpig.org)
  91. The Plant-Human Quarterly (https://otherwisecollective.com)
  92. The Siskiyou Prize for New Environmental Literature (www.siskiyouprize.com)
  93. The Tiger Moth Review (www.thetigermothreview.com)
  94. The Trumpeter: (http://trumpeter.athabascau.ca/index.php/trumpet)
  95. The Willowherb Review (www.willowherbreview.com)
  96. Tiny Seed Literary Journal (www.tinyseedjournal.com)
  97. Trace: A Journal of Writing, Media and Ecology (www.tracejournal.net)
  98. Whole Terrain (www.wholeterrain.com)
  99. Wild Hope Magazine (www.wildhope.org)
  100. Wild Roof Journal (wildroofjournal.com)
  101. Words for the Wild (www.wordsforthewild.co.uk)
  102. Writers on the Range (www.writersontherange.org)
  103. ZEST Letteratura sostenibile (in Italian) (www.zestletteraturasostenibile.com)
  104. Zoomorphic (www.zoomorphic.net)

If we’ve missed something, please let us know.

The journals below have ceased publication (to the best of our knowledge) but we hold out hope for a return:

  1. Animal: A Beast of a Literary Magazine (www.animalliterarymagazine.com)
  2. Humanamalia (www.depauw.edu/site/humanimalia)
  3. Kudzu House Quarterly (www.kudzuhouse.org)
  4. The Island Review (www.theislandreview.com)
  5. Windfall: A Journal of Poetry and Place (www.windfalljournal.com)
 
 
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