A literary journal
My Green Manifesto by David Gessner
To celebrate Earth Week, ecotonejournal.com is publishing an exclusive essay by Editor-in-Chief, David Gessner. In the essay, Gessner tells us how to save the world, one small fight at a time. While he's at it, he tells us how to save ourselves (hint: it has to do with birds). In Sick of Nature, Gessner tore down what he saw as wrong with nature writing. Now he tries to build it back up, both describing and demonstrating the role that language can play in the green fights ahead. [read the essay]
Ecotone Evolution Contest
Ecotone is now accepting submissions in all genres to the 2008 Evolution Contest, for an issue celebrating Charles Darwin. Entries should creatively reflect the subject of evolution. $1,000 grand prize, plus a limited-edition chapbook, and publication in Ecotone's 2009 Evolution issue. $15 fee includes a one-year subscription. Judge: Jennifer Ackerman. Deadline: August 1, 2008. For complete guidelines, [click here]
Congratulations to Kevin Brockmeier!
Brockmeier's story "The Year of Silence," featured in Ecotone Volume 3, Issue 1, was chosen by Salman Rushdie for publication in Best American Short Stories 2008.
Volume 3, Number 1 is availabe for purchase today!
It includes essays from Robert Finch, Lowry Pei, and Alison Hawthorne Deming; fiction from Bill Roorbach and Kevin Brockmeier; poems by Sydney Lea, Kevin Stein, and Jon Pineda; an interview with Joy Williams; artwork by Suzanne Stryk; a series of maps from the 2007 AWP "map competition"; and much more. [order now!]
Welcome college libraries and bookstores! Reserve your copy of the upcoming fifth issue or purchase a complete volume set for your archives [order now]
Congratulations to Joan Snyder (our artist from Ecotone Volume 2, Issue 1), who was the recipient of a 2007 MacArthur Fellowship. To read more about her on the MacArthur Foundation website, [click here]
Editor-in-Chief David Gessner's essay "Experiencing a Feeling of Wildness" was recently aired on NPR's This I Believe series [listen here]
More great news! Brian Doyle's essay "Fishering" from Volume 2, Issue 1 of Ecotone will be included in Best American Science and Nature Writing 2007; Alicita Rodriguez’s story “Imagining Bisbee" will be included in New Stories From the Southwest 2008 (Ohio University Press); and Reg Saner's essay "Lions in the Streets" from our debut issue was chosen as a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2006.
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