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Book Review: Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy

March 4, 2025 by Midge Raymond

In Charlotte McConaghy’s lovely new novel, Wild Dark Shore, Dominic Salt and his family—eighteen-year-old Raff, seventeen-year-old Fen, and nine-year-old Orly—moved to Shearwater Island eight years earlier, when Dominic “needed a …

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Categories Animals, Anthropocene, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Eco-mystery, Ecology, Fiction, Macmillan, Oceans, Plants

Book Review: An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

September 16, 2024March 26, 2023 by John Yunker

Guest book review by Gene Helfman. Put simply, reading An Immense World will change how you perceive the world. It certainly has altered my perception. I have decades of experience …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Birds, Book Reviews, Conservation, Ecology, Nonfiction, Random House, What we're reading

New and forthcoming environmental books

October 22, 2022 by John Yunker

Sadly there is not enough time for us here at EcoLit Books to read all the fine works submitted to us. Here are a few titles we’ve received over the …

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Categories Book Reviews, Children's Books, Fiction, Nonfiction, What we're reading

Ecofiction on Reddit

May 4, 2022 by John Yunker

Our good friend Mary Woodbury has created a subreddit devoted to Ecofiction: A place to find meaningful fictional stories about our natural world and humanity’s connection with it. The subreddit …

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Categories For Writers, Writing Opportunities

Interview with author Charlotte McConaghy

December 30, 2024August 3, 2021 by Midge Raymond

Charlotte McConaghy, an Australian writer living in Sydney, is the author of Migrations and Once There Were Wolves. Here, she chats with EcoLit Books about her new novel about the …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animal Rights, Conservation, For Writers, Q&A, Rewilding, Wolves

Book Review: Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy

August 3, 2021 by Midge Raymond

Charlotte McConaghy’s Once There Were Wolves shares much in common with her previous novel, Migrations — the journey of a troubled young woman hoping to save the animals she loves, …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Conservation, Endangered Species, Fiction, Wolves

Book Review: Irreplaceable by Julian Hoffman

March 29, 2021 by Midge Raymond

In Irreplaceable: The Fight to Save Our Wild Places, Julian Hoffman shows us endangered habitats and the creatures who inhabit them—as well as the humans who are fighting to save …

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Categories Anthropocene, Birds, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, Endangered Species, Essays, History, Nonfiction, Oceans, Plants, Sustainability, Trees, University of Georgia Press

New writing contest: Imagine 2200

January 19, 2021 by John Yunker

How about a new writing contest to kick off 2021? This one is sponsored by Grist and looks very interesting (and timely): Welcome to Imagine 2200 — a new climate-fiction …

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Categories Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, Endangered Species, For Writers, Journals and Magazines, Writing Opportunities

New and upcoming book releases

September 15, 2020 by John Yunker

Sadly, we cannot review everything we receive here at EcoLit Books — but I did want to highlight a few new and newly republished works… The Lives and Deaths of …

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Categories Animal Rights, Book Publishers, Conservation, Ecology, Ecomedia, Endangered Species, Fiction, History, Nonfiction, Pets, Poetry, Trees, What we're reading

Terrain’s 11th annual writing contest closes September 7

August 21, 2020 by John Yunker

A quick reminder that Terrain is accepting submissions in poetry, nonfiction, and fiction until September 7 The first-place winner in each genre will be awarded $500 plus publication. Finalists in …

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Categories Contest, For Writers, Writing Opportunities

The Greening of Literature by Gretchen Primack

July 25, 2019 by Midge Raymond

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 …

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