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Permalink Reply by Cheryl Merrill on October 30, 2011 at 6:51am

My nature writing has a literary bent, so I've published in Adventum, Fourth Genre, Pilgrimage, Brevity, South Loop Review, Alaska Quarterly Review and Isotope.  One of my essays about elephants was published in Seems and chosen for Special Mention in Pushcart, 2008.  I understand Ecotone is also a good place for literary nature essays.  Great query!  Looking forward to seeing other suggestions!

Permalink Reply by Charlene Logan Burnett on November 1, 2011 at 6:13pm

Good discussion!  Although I usually write fiction and poetry, I often look for lit journals that are interested in the natural world.  Doyou ever use Duotrope to search?  Although it doesn't inclue nonfiction, I find most journals now are looking for nonfiction and the personal essay, too.  A couple off the top of my head--Flyway, Ecotone, terrain.  

 

Thanks for the link to ASLE--looks good!

Permalink Reply by Amanda Katherine Jaros on November 3, 2011 at 7:40am

Great suggestions!  How about EarthSpeak ...  Anyone heard of them? 

And of course there is Orion.

 

More ideas!?!

Permalink Reply by Michelle Gluch on December 28, 2011 at 5:46pm

I love this discussion.  My pieces too have a literary bent so I've published with a few smaller online mags like, Mixed Fruit, A Golden Place, Vapid Kitten.  I use Duotrope to find publishing sites.  Look at their upcoming themed deadlines, follow the link to the publishers website, then determine if they accept nonfiction.  This is a list of "others" I have been checking out one at a time--The Boiler, The Examined Life Journal, Barrelhouse, Missive, The Feildstone Review, Helix Magazine, You Are Here, Gumbo Press, Ploughshares, A Public Space, Colorado Review, Conjunctions, Creative Nonfiction.  Hope this helps.

Permalink Reply by Adrienne Ross Scanlan on January 13, 2012 at 10:30pm

So sorry for the late reply to this discussion! Wish I had known it was happening last fall.  (Does SheWrites contact you when discussions happen in the group?  All my privacy options are set to "contact me!", but clearly, that wasn't happening in late 2011.)

Like Cheryl, my nature writing is of a literary bent, and also like her, I've published in Adventum and Pilgrimage, although I've tried Fourth Genre, Brevity and Alaska Quarterly Review without success (so far).  Ecotone is a good place for nature / place oriented essays, and their guidelines are quite clear. Also, they have samples from past issues on their site. 

I've had pieces appear in EarthSpeak which publishes some truly excellent work. (Not that I'm touting my own horn. I was simply deeply impressed by the work I've seen there.) Unfortunately, they don't seem to have very much visibility, yet they do have a track record.  I've also had work published in the magazines You Are Here, Raven Chronicles,and the Platte Valley Review (forthcoming in 2012).  As far as I know, the last three are only print based, although I think that PVR is starting to put some issues online.

I'd suggest not getting too stuck on the search for "nature oriented" magazines. I've had nature writing accepted at Tiny Lights, Cezanne's Carrot, LabLit and a few other places. If you have a strong personal essay that deals with place / nature issues, many magazines that aren't "nature oriented" will take it or at least consider it.

I'd love to find some good blogs, but I don't have the time to search them out or read them. I do a lot of filter feeding via the ASLE listserv, and I also belong to several H-Net listservs dealing with nature or environmental issues, such as Nature in Legend and Story.  I learn a lot, but most of it I'm filing away for later use.

Anyway, I do hope that I won't miss any future discussions! I think this group has a wealth of expertise and ideas to share. 

Adrienne Ross Scanlan

Permalink Reply by Cheryl Merrill on January 14, 2012 at 8:27am

Hi Adrienne.  I've got a couple of blogs in the general area of nature writing that you might want to check out.  One is one my website www.cherylmerril.com and the other can be accessed from that website.  It's called "My Other Bolg" on the Posts page of the website.  Hope they can give you some ideas - and thanks for yours!  - Cheryl 

Permalink Reply by Shannon Huffman Polson on January 15, 2012 at 3:19pm

thanks Amanda, for the reference and the prompt! (and somehow I'm not getting the notices of posts either- hmmm. Will try to fix that)

I've published nature essays in Trachodon (though that's not their focus), Adventum Magazine (definitely their focus) and Cirque Magazine (no particular focus except Pacific Rim writers.)

Thanks to all for suggestions of Ecotone and Pilgrimage which both look wonderful.

Would love to hear more ideas- as well as blogs!

Reading: currently the oldie but goodie, "Eiger Dreams" by Krakauer, working on ideas to work into an essay about mountaineering (and other things.)

Permalink Reply by Adrienne Ross Scanlan on January 18, 2012 at 8:05pm

Glad to know I'm not the only one being notified of posts. What can be done to change that?

Permalink Reply by Amanda Katherine Jaros on January 16, 2012 at 6:56pm

Thanks for the ideas all!  I like to find good stuff to read as much as finding a home for stuff I write.  Blogs are great for that. 

A new critique partner of mine has a nice nature-y blog- Monica Devine.http://monicadevine.blogspot.com/

I also found a nice simple one for kid's nature writers.http://wildaboutnaturewriters.blogspot.com/

And check out my blog- well, it's not all nature writing, it's about writing in general, but I'd love to see you there! www.tamarackwrites.blogspot.com

 

 Other blog suggestions?