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A really great talk between LA Review of Books and DOWNDRIFT author Johanna Drucker. https://lareviewofbooks.org/av/johanna-drucker-ecological-longview/#!
Johanna Drucker discusses her eco-novel "Downdrift" and her work of social philosophy, "The General Theory of Social Relativity."
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS!
The Best Climate Solutions 2018 Award focuses on the challenge of “Communicating Climate Change Threats and Opportunities”, and it is organized by the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change in partnership with the Festival for the Earth.
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Dragonfly.eco is our new global eco-literature portal. A writer's workshop and Dragonfly library help published and unpublished authors get their work out there. Open to authors of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, prose, and more.
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https://www.asle.org/stay-informed/asle-2019-conference-call-panels-open/ The theme for 2019 is Paradise on Fire. Submissions due September 2018, and papers due October 2018. I may propose for this event. If anyone's interested in joining, please let me know (conference is in June 2019, Davis, California). editor@dragonfly.eco.
11 Jun 2018ASLE0ASLE News, Stay Informed THIRTEENTH ASLE BIENNIAL CONFERENCE PARADISE ON FIRE JUNE 26-30, 2019 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS DAVIS, CA Our Call for Panels is open (deadline Sept. 1, 2018), with a Call for Papers to follow this fall. Our Call for Workshops...
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Calling all poets: I am one of the judges this year of the Gingko Prize, the world's biggest prize for 'ecopoetry', launched today. There's five grand on offer for the winner - a decade's earnings for a poet - plus a week-long residency. Get scribbling.
--- approx reading time: 9 minutesIn part 1 of this two-parter, writer Mary Woodbury outlined some of the common ground that helps 'define' eco-fiction: "not so much a genre as a way to intersect natural landscape, environmental issues, and wilderness — and human connection to...
climatecultures.net
New works by Paul Schrader, William Vollman, and Richard Powers grapple with meaningful living at the end of the world.
theoutline.com
The Wainwright Prize is considered the equivalent of the Booker Prize for nature writing...
The longlist for the The Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize which celebrates the best books about nature, the outdoors and UK travel is announced today, Wednesday 6 June 2018.
wainwrightprize.com
Novelist Jeff VanderMeer: "Today, I feel like an ambassador for nature and animals. I try to present them properly in my fiction. I try to present the complexities of ecosystems. Issues of climate change are in there, but the point is that there’s this amazing...
Amy Brady of “Guernica” magazine presents the second conversation in the series “The Art and Activism of the Anthropocene.”
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https://eco-fiction.com/interview-patricia-j-anderson/ My interview with Patricia J. Anderson, author of the new novel THRESHOLD. Wonderful chat!
eco-fiction.com
Ever since the 1950s, our books, movies, and songs have contained fewer and fewer references to flowers, birds, trees, and the outdoors. What does it all mean?
Ever since the 1950s, our books, movies, and songs have contained fewer and fewer references to flowers, birds, trees, and the outdoors. What does it all mean?
outsideonline.com