KNOCK Ecolit Contest

Ecoliterature Contest Submission Guidelines

* Manuscripts will not be returned, but recycled.
* Notification of winners will take place by August, 2008.
* Include your name, category, and "Ecolit & Green Art Contest Submission" on your cover letter (or in your subject line).
* Include a SASE for notification of results (email address may substitute). Submissions can be made by email and regular mail.

Categories:

Poetry :: Fiction :: Nonfiction :: Plays :: Art :: Cartoons

Please:
* Limit prose to 10 pages.
* Limit poetry to 4 poems, or 8 pages total.
* Limit plays to 10 pages. 
* Art & cartoons can be B&W or color; limit to 5 pieces.

Send Submissions to:

KNOCK
Antioch University Seattle
2326 Sixth Avenue
Seattle WA 98121

or:

knock@antiochseattle.edu

http://www.knockjournal.org/submit/ecolit-contest.html

E-Conference -- Looks Interesting

Environmental (In) Justice: Sources, Symptoms, and Solutions ~ Online

April 11-24, 2008 ~ Online Join academics and activists, scientists and social critics, researchers, journalists, and concerned citizens from around the world in this EcoRes online forum as we examine the roots of environmental and climate injustice and search for ways to right these indefensible wrongs.

http://eelink.net/cgi-bin/ee-link/newclick/5168794

Mexican Gold Poppies

After the desert rains ...  the poppies.

Waterman Fund Alpine Essay Contest

The Waterman Fund announces it new Alpine Essay Contest and seeks submissions until May 1, 2008.

The Waterman Fund seeks the submission of essays about life in the mountains of the northeastern U.S. for its inaugural Waterman Fund Alpine Essay Contest.

Guy and Laura Waterman spent a lifetime reflecting and writing on the Northeast's mountains. The Waterman Fund seeks to further their legacy through essays and stories that celebrate the spirit of the Northeast's mountains. We encourage the submission of essays that explore the relationship between the human spirit and that environment. For example, we seek scientific essays about the effects of global warming; personal stories about hiking experiences; or writings that explore the relationship between people and wildness.

Essays must be original works ranging from 2500 to 4000 words. The submission deadline is May 1, 2008. The winning piece will be published in Appalachia Journal, and the winning essayist will be awarded $2,000.

Writers who have not published a book on such topic or who have not been published in a national magazine on such topic are eligible for participation. For details on how to submit an essay, go to http://www.watermanfund.org/categories/events/essay_contest.php.

Everyone's Friday Free for All

Every week, there is a general "free for all" post where any reader at Whorled Leaves can share something about his/herself--some tidbit inspired by nature--a poem, an essay, a clip from one's field notebook--whatever it is that makes you smile.

Residency for Nature Writers

Artist at Pine Needles residency program

The St. Croix Watershed Research Station seeks applications from artists and writers for the summer 2008 Artist at Pine Needles residency program. The project invites natural history artists or writers to spend 2 to 4 weeks in residence to immerse themselves in a field experience, gather resource materials, and interact with environmental scientists and the local community. Applications will be accepted from writers and visual artists who focus on environmental or natural history topics. Participants will have an opportunity to interact with environmental scientists and to create links between their art, the natural world and the sciences.

Go to http://www.smm.org/static/science/pdf/pineneedles.pdfto download application for this residency.

EPA Photo Contest for Earth Day

Show Us Your Best Photo for Earth Day

Contact: Jeffrey Levy, 202-564-4355 / levy.jeffrey@epa.gov

(Washington, D.C. – March 10, 2008) Has your community organization cleaned up a stream? Have you enjoyed a day in the woods? Has a wild animal ever sparked your imagination?

If you've caught anything like those moments in a photo, share it with us! We want to see how you would show EPA's mission to protect human health and the environment. Send us your best photos in three categories:
· Enjoying the environment
· Protecting the environment
· Nature and wildlife

To encourage participation and provide maximum public access, the contest will be hosted on the photo sharing site Flickr.com. People around the world are encouraged to enter.

The contest will run as follows:
March 24: entries due
April 1: Finalists announced, public voting for winners begins
April 15: voting ends
April 22 (Earth Day): winners announced

Finalist and winning photos will be featured on EPA's Web site.

Full details about the contest, including how to enter: http://www.epa.gov/earthday/photocontest

Cloud Appreciation Society

Tell me this doesn't renew your faith in humanity: there is a Cloud Appreciation Society! I'm so excited it's ridiculous. I found this clan by picking up a book yesterday called The Cloudspotters Guide: Science, History, and Culture of Clouds.

This comes from their Manifesto:

WE BELIEVE that clouds are unjustly maligned

and that life would be immeasurably poorer without them.

We think that they are Nature’s poetry,
and the most egalitarian of her displays,

since everyone can have a fantastic view of them.

We pledge to fight ‘blue-sky thinking’ wherever we find it.

Life would be dull if we had to look up at

cloudless monotony day after day.

We seek to remind people that clouds are expressions of the

atmosphere’s moods, and can be read like those of

a person’s countenance.

Clouds are so commonplace that their beauty is often overlooked.

They are for dreamers and their contemplation benefits the soul.

Indeed, all who consider the shapes they see in them will save

on psychoanalysis bills.

And so we say to all who’ll listen:

Look up, marvel at the ephemeral beauty, and live life with your head in the clouds!