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Search Results for: three ways to disappear

Three Ways to Disappear: An interview with author Katy Yocom

March 5, 2020 by Midge Raymond

Last year, we published Three Ways to Disappear, winner of the 2016 Siskiyou Prize for New Environmental Literature (it was also a finalist for the Dzanc Books Disquiet Open Borders Book …

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Categories Animal Rights, Ashland Creek Press, Conservation, Endangered Species, Hunting, Q&A, What we're reading

Notes from the ASLE Conference in Davis, California

July 5, 2019 by John Yunker

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 …

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Categories Book Publishers, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecomedia, Endangered Species, Events, Oceans, Trees, Veganism, 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

Announcing the 2016 Siskiyou Prize finalists

January 23, 2017 by John Yunker

This is the third year of the Siskiyou Prize for New Environmental Literature (which is sponsored by Ashland Creek Press, which also sponsors EcoLit Books). We’re pleased to see the Siskiyou Prize gaining …

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Categories Animal Rights, Book Publishers, Climate Change, Conservation, Endangered Species, Fiction, For Writers, Nonfiction, Oceans, Trees

Book Review: The Pelican Tide

September 24, 2024June 11, 2024 by Midge Raymond

Sharon J. Wishnow’s debut novel, The Pelican Tide—set on Grand Isle, Louisiana, in 2010, just before the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill—is both an intense environmental disaster story and a …

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Categories Book Reviews, Ecology, Fiction, Oceans, Oil

Book Review: FIRE WEATHER by John Vaillant

January 17, 2024 by Midge Raymond

John Vaillant’s Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World is not only the story of the devastating 2016 Fort McMurray fire in Alberta, Canada, but also a history of fire, …

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Categories Alfred A. Knopf, Anthropocene, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Nonfiction, Oil

Book Review: LETTERS TO MY SHEEP by Teya Brooks Pribac

January 4, 2024 by Midge Raymond

In Letters To My Sheep, a lovely, thoughtful book comprising sixty-three short chapters, Teya Brooks Pribac, a scholar and multidisciplinary artist who lives in the Blue Mountains of Australia, shares musings, …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animal Rights, Essays

Animal Resistance: When animals fight back and when humans listen

August 9, 2025January 18, 2021 by John Yunker
Animal Resistance

In the first chapter of Animal Resistance in the Global Capitalist Era, Sarat Colling tells the story of Emily, possibly the most famous cow to have escaped a slaughterhouse. It …

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Categories Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Michigan State University Press, Nonfiction, Pets, Topics, Veganism, What we're reading

Book Review: The End of Ice by Dahr Jamail

September 29, 2019May 14, 2019 by Midge Raymond

Dahr Jamail’s The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption is at once a memoir of the author’s experiences in nature and a …

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Categories Anthropocene, Birds, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Endangered Species, Insects, Nonfiction, Oceans, The New Press, Trees

Book Review: The Way of Coyote: Shared Journeys in the Urban Wilds by Gavin Van Horn

September 29, 2019October 31, 2018 by John Yunker

Reviewed by James Ballowe, Distinguished Professor English Emeritus from Bradley University In his “Prologue” to The Way of Coyote, Gavin Van Horn, Director of Cultures of Conservation at the Center for …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Conservation, Essays, Nonfiction, University of Chicago Press

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