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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

The list of outlets for environmental writing turns 70

January 31, 2020 by John Yunker

As in there are now 70 of them. Thanks for everyone who contributed. We actually just received another contribution today so the list will be turning 71 shortly. The next …

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Categories Anthropocene, Book Publishers, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, Endangered Species, For Writers, Journals and Magazines, Oceans, Plants, Pollution, Trees, What we're reading, Writing Opportunities

Announcing the winner & finalists of the 2016 Siskiyou Prize!

February 23, 2017 by Midge Raymond

We are delighted to announce the winner of the 2016 Siskiyou Prize for New Environmental Literature: Katy Yocom, for her novel THREE WAYS TO DISAPPEAR. Judge JoeAnn Hart writes, “THREE WAYS TO DISAPPEAR begins …

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Categories Conservation, Fiction, For Writers, Writing Opportunities

Writing opportunity for undergrads and grads: Sloth, A Journal of Human-Animal Studies

September 16, 2014 by John Yunker

The Animals and Society Institute has launched a journal exclusively for undergraduate and graduate students, to publish papers, book reviews, essays, and other work. Sloth is an online bi-annual journal …

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Categories Animal Rights, Endangered Species, For Writers, Journals and Magazines, Veganism, Writing Opportunities

Q&A with Mindy Mejia, author of The Dragon Keeper

June 8, 2013April 11, 2013 by Midge Raymond

Q&A with Mindy Mejia, author of The Dragon Keeper Q: How did you come up with the idea for The Dragon Keeper, and how long did it take you to write it? …

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Categories Animal Rights, Endangered Species, Q&A

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