![]() ![]() In the most recent online issue “Queering Nature,” guest editors Dakota Garilli and Michael Walsh stress the inversion of “the accepted definition of what is artificial versus what is natural.” ![]() Students at Chatham University’s “groundbreaking MFA focusing on nature, travel writing, and social outreach” produce The Fourth River, a print-and-online journal for innovative and unique place-based fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. From its home base at Iowa State University, the journal publishes place-based fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and art on a rolling basis, and runs a yearly short fiction and poetry contest where the prize is both publication online and a box of organic Iowa sweet corn. Flyway: Journal of Writing and EnvironmentĪn online journal open to “all interpretations of environment,” Flyway: Journal of Writing and Environment explores the “social and political implications” of environmental complexities. Published biannually out of Amherst, Massachusetts, The Common seeks to “find the extraordinary in the common…literature and art powerful enough to reach from there to here.” The stories, poems, essays, and art in each issue invoke a “modern sense of place”, whether it’s a kudzu-creeped Mississippi apartment in Issue 10’s “Crescent City” by Maurice Emerson Decaul, or a warm Bombay kitchen in Amit Chaudhuri’s recipe for pomfret chutney masala from Issue 9.Ģ. To celebrate Ecotone’s love of place and environment, this edition of Making a List highlights other place-based literary journals around the country and the web. We’ve published traditional nature writers since our founding in 2005, and in our Anniversary Issue featured an emerging brand of expansive new nature writers such as Claire Vaye Watkins and Ana Maria Spagna. ![]() Find her on Instagram and Twitter to hear how these editors work to publish voices missing from lit mags and confront the liminal space we are all in as our environment changes.As you may know already, Ecotone features authors and artists who explore the transition zones between landscapes, literary genres, scientific and artistic disciplines, and modes of thought all in the name of reimagining place. The recipient of a North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship in literature, she teaches at University of North Carolina-Wilmington, where she is the editor of Ecotone and Lookout Books. Rachel Taube is an MFA candidate in Fiction at UNC-Wilmington, and Managing Editor at Ecotone. You can find her on Twitter and Instagram Lena Phillips Bell is the author of Ornament (University of North Texas Press, 2017), winner of the Vassar Miller Poetry Prize. And they welcome the work of emerging writers. They are particularly interested in hearing from writers historically underrepresented in literary publishing and in place-based contexts: people of color, Indigenous people, people with disabilities, gender-nonconforming people, LGBTQIA+, women, and others. The magazine explores the ecotones between landscapes, literary genres, scientific and artistic disciplines, modes of thought. It is, therefore, a place of danger or opportunity, a testing ground. An ecotone is a transition zone between two adjacent ecological communities, containing the characteristic species of each. Ecotone’s mission is to publish and promote the best place-based work being written today.įounded at the University of North Carolina Wilmington in 2005, the award-winning magazine features writing and art that reimagine place, and our authors interpret this charge expansively. ![]()
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