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New Terrain award for undergraduate writers

hwheeler — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 21:38:05 +0000

Whole Terrain, the nationally renowned literary journal of Antioch University New England, has established an annual award for outstanding undergraduate writers. We’re seeking environmental essays from current undergraduates for this year’s volume. The writer of the winning essay will receive the New Terrain Award of $500 and have his or her work published in the upcoming issue.

Entries should be sent using our online form. If you have questions or need assistance, please send us an email with the subject header “New Terrain Award Submission.”

To qualify for the award, you must be an undergraduate student in good academic standing, and your submission must be original work. This information will be verified for potential candidates.

Whole Terrain managing editor reflects on boundaries

hwheeler — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 00:42:36 +0000

By Sue Gentile

Managing Editor, Whole Terrain

photo by Hanna Wheeler

Earlier today I was reading some of the submissions we’ve received for the upcoming “Boundaries” volume of Whole Terrain. I’ve just now returned from a walk with a friend through new snow— the kind of snow that clings to tree branches. It seems to be such a clean line, such a contrast between the dark bark and the white snow. And yet, each of those lines is ever shifting, the snow melting, wind blowing some away.

And then my mind turns to glaciers, retreating glaciers. A satellite image at any moment in time might suggest a clean line, glacier ice contrasted with dark of land, yet those lines are ever shifting too. And then my mind turns to neighborhoods. On a map, there is a clean line, distinguishing one from another, but down on the street one eases or oozes into another with overlaps in architecture, language, and cooking aromas. What about a concrete wall or a barbed wire fence? Does that make a hard line? Air passes over or through. So do seeds and a variety of animals. No boundary then?

Perhaps the hardest lines are in our minds, the boundaries between beliefs? Stark contrasts? Or is there easing, oozing, and overlap in our minds, in our thinking? Can there be? Are boundaries in our minds meant to separate, to keep in, to keep out? What are the boundaries in our minds? Do we dare to cross them? And, what does it mean to be out of bounds?

Maybe we should all strive to be out of bounds more, out of our own bounds, to explore others’ ideas and beliefs with an openness of mind unbounded, without boundaries. Arizona is on my mind.

Sue Gentile is Managing Editor of Whole Terrain and an adjunct professor at Antioch University New England in the Environmental Studies Department and Education Department.

Stay tuned for how to order the “Boundaries” issue of Whole Terrain.

Whole Terrain wins recognition for design

hwheeler — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 17:45:48 +0000

BRATTLEBORO — Four area area businesses were recognized in the 2010 New England Regional Awards of Excellence Competition, presented by the Printing Industries of New England.

Two second-place Awards of Recognition were presented for The Whole Terrain soft-cover book for Antioch University New England in Keene, and the “Boston Warehouse Trading Corporation” catalog for Silver Direct of Marlborough.

A third-place Award of Merit was earned for the “Raise Your Game” Mount Snow Golf School brochure for The Communicators Group in Keene.

All were printed by Howard Printing Inc. of Brattleboro, which also won two second-place Awards of Recognition for the “You > 36% of Bennington” brochure for Bennington College and the On Campus newsletter for Williams College in Williamstown, Mass.; and a third-place “Award of Merit” for the “Met Opera HD Live” invitation/program postcard for The Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Mass.

The Antioch University New England book was edited by alumnus Peter Davenport and designed by the university’s graphic designer, Laurie Webster.

((r)e)volution Release Party – December 9, 2009

wholeterrain — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:48:10 +0000

((r)e)volution

UPDATE: The snow is falling, but we’re still on for the Release Party. If you can safely make it, come down to cozy Brewbakers and enjoy a nice glass of wine or hot cocoa.

Please join us to celebrate the release of Whole Terrain, Volume 16: ((r)e)volution.

Release Party

Wednesday – December 9, 2009 6:30 – 8:30 PM

Brewbakers Coffeehouse
97 Main St Keene, NH

Antioch’s own John Crockett, Editor Peter Davenport, and others will read from their work. Enjoy wine, cheese, and coffee. Delicious Brewbakers deserts and pastries available for purchase.

You may purchase ((r)e)volution at the release party for $8, in the ANE Bookstore or online.

Sponsored by the Whole Terrain Editorial Board and ANE Communications.