Sea Change wins ASLE Book Award
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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ASLE announces finalists for 2025 Book Awards
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 …
Join the ASLE Virtual Conference: Emergence/y
ASLE (The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment) is holding its conference online from July 26 to August 6. Keynote presentations include: Aimee Nezhukumatathil, poet and author of …
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 …
Braiding Sweetgrass: Finding a way through environmental despair
At the ASLE conference earlier this summer I heard this book referenced in a number of sessions. And now, having read it, I realize why. Braiding Sweetgrass is a rich …
The Greening of Literature by Gretchen Primack
We are thrilled to present this talk by Gretchen Primack, given at the ASLE conference at the University of California, Davis, on June 28, 2019, as part of the session …
Notes from the ASLE Conference in Davis, California
ASLE is the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment. Every other year, the organization hosts a conference; this year it was at the University of California at …
ASLE announces 2017 book award finalists
The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment has announced the finalists for their bi-annual book awards. The ASLE book awards “in the areas of ecocriticism and environmental creative …
Opportunities for writers of animal-centric stories and essays, care of the ASLE
ASLE (The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment) listed a few calls for submission that caught my eye: Writing Meat: Flesh-Eating and Literature Since 1900 The conversion of animal …
ASLE announces 2015 book award finalists
The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment has announced the finalists for their bi-annual book awards: Creative Award Finalists: Bitten: My Unexpected Love Affair with Florida by Andrew …