Archive for the "Environmental Writing" Category

Bird Woman: Whole Terrain interviews Julie Zickefoose

Update: Julie’s essay, “Where the Rose Gentian Grows,” appears in Whole Terrain’s new volume, ‘Boundaries.’ Whole Terrain is available for purchase online at Writing Nature Marketplace. Our original interview with Julie is reposted below. By Hanna Wheeler Julie Zickefoose is one of the lucky few who are gutsy enough to make a living— and a difference— [...]

Introducing Writing Nature Marketplace

Check out the new Writing Nature site, which is being developed in affiliation with over 150 writers, painters, photographers, musicians and other artists in the Writing Nature community.  Their work explores and promotes sense of place and environmental themes.  Individuals in the Writing Nature community have created long-running annual and semi-annual retreats at Camp Glen [...]

Reciprocity: writing and farming in Vermont

By Hanna Wheeler   Julia Shipley grows 50 percent of her diet in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom. Photo by Hanna Wheeler If chores were a car trip, instead of a process from one end of the barn to another, from full udder to empty, we’d be in Montreal by the time the milked cows were let [...]

Monadnock Literary & Arts Festival

If you gave a 250 acre farm over to a group of writers, artists, actors, musicians and filmmakers for three days, you might well get anarchy. Or you’d get an amazing festival… September 16-18 Glen Brook’s annual Monadnock Literary & Arts Festival invites writers, artists, musicians – and participants – to celebrate the effects of [...]

Whole Terrain seeks submissions exploring Net Works theme

 As environmental practitioners, we cast nets to sample nature, to gather knowledge, to provoke action. Ornithologists use mist nets to capture birds for banding, advocates and organizers use social networks to foment governmental and public action, and vast amounts of data are gathered from different disciplines to construct climate change models. What do we hope [...]