Friends, These are hard, hot days in many ways. Here in the Upstate of South Carolina, wedged between the Blue Ridge northward and fractured Piedmont rolling south towards the coast, the thermometer rises to inhospitable. No matter where one stands terrain-wise, the summer sun’s relentless rays
The editors of Terrain.org, the Sowell Family Collection, and Texas Tech University Press are delighted to announce the winner of the 2024 Sowell Emerging Writers Prize: Birds at Night, a powerful first book of poetry by Ibe Liebenberg. Liebenberg wins $1,000 and publication of Birds
Terrain.org, a nonprofit, independent magazine of place, climate, and justice publishing since 1998, has won the 2024 AWP Small Press Publisher Award. The award was announced on February 7, 2024 at the AWP awards ceremony held at the Kansas City Public Library the evening before the
Terrain.org and Spring Creek Project are pleased to announce the launch of our newest, limited-run multi-genre series: Climate Stories in Action. SUBMIT THROUGH APRIL 8 By some research estimates, 98 percent of climate and environmental reporting is negative. Climate stories tend to focus on the overall
Award-winning place-based writers, educators, and thinkers J. Drew Lanham and Leonora Simonovis have joined Terrain.org—Drew on the editorial board and Leo as our inaugural Currents editor. Terrain.org is delighted to announce that MacArthur Fellow J. Drew Lanham has joined our editorial board, while Leonora Simonovis becomes
“The 17th Day” by Christina Rivera, which was published on January 1, 2022 in Terrain.org, has been selected as the 2023 John Burroughs Nature Essay Award, the highest annual honor for a creative nonfiction essay on place, science, and the environment. Judges from the John Burroughs
Kate Neville’s nonfiction manuscript Going to Seed has been awarded the inaugural Sowell Emerging Writers Prize by Texas Tech University Press, Terrain.org, and the Sowell Collection. Neville’s debut, Going to Seed, explores questions of idleness, considering the labor both of humans and of the myriad other inhabitants