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Upcoming Events
Terrain.org and the Fine Arts Work Center are delighted to announce a tuition scholarship drawing for Alison Hawthorne Deming’sworkshop “Writing An Essay, Planting a Tree: An Environmental Writing Workshop,” July 22-27 at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, as part of an extraordinary Social Justice Week: Writers & Artists as Activists (featuring Ai Weiwei, Masha Gessen, Martha Collins, Alison Hawthorne Deming, Lacy M. Johnson, Michael Patrick MacDonald, Aja Monet, Marcus Wicker, Lauren Ewing, and Daniel Heyman).
To apply, send an email to scholarships@fawc.org, with “Deming Drawing” in the subject line. Include your contact information in the body of the email.
Deadline: April 30. Drawing: May 1.
Learn more about Social Justice Week at http://web.fawc.org/social-justice-week-2018.
Sponsored by the Grace A. Tanner Center for Human Values at Southern Utah University, the Writing About Ecology and Placeconference is the third in the Eco-poetry, Ecology, and Place in a Technological World conference series, and the evolution of the first two to include a broader spectrum of writing — now including prose — and students. The student-oriented conference features keynote addresses, writing workshops and discussions, an editing and publishing panel, receptions, and a hike and writing workshop in Zion National Park.
Simmons will once again serve as editor-in-residence and work with students in classes and as part of the conference. He will also chair the “Writing and Publishing in a World of Rapid Ecological Change” panel.
Recent Events
October 12-14, 2017
ECO-poetry, Place & Technology Conference
Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah
Terrain.org editor-in-chief Simmons Buntin, poetry editor Derek Sheffield, poet Arthur Sze, and other editors and writers participated in the second annual conference that featured readings, writing workshops, an editors’ panel, a hike in Zion National Park, and more.
June 20-24, 2017
Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) Biennial Conference
Wayne State University, Detroit Michigan
Terrain.org editor-in-chief Simmons Buntin, poetry editor Derek Sheffield, and other editors and contributors participated in this important conference on place-based writing and ecoliterature. Simmons moderated a gathering of magazine and literary journal editors titled “Editors’ Roundtable: Publishing Truth in a Post-Truth World” and also hosted a nonfiction reading at a local bookstore, featuring Elizabeth Dodd, John Lane, Kathryn Miles, and Nick Neely.
March 11-12, 2017
Tucson Festival of Books
The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona (Booth #149)
Terrain.org editor-in-chief Simmons Buntin and fiction editor Amy Knight spoke with festival goers about the journal.
October 6-7, 2016
Poetry, Ecology, and Place in a Technological World
Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah
Terrain.org editor-in-chief Simmons Buntin served with Sherwin Bitsui is serving as keynote reader. Simmons also facilitated a workshop on publishing, with Pilgrimage editor Juan Morales. Read Simmons’s keynote, “Poetry, Ecology, and Place in a Technological World.”
March 30 – April 2, 2016
Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Annual Conference and Bookfair
Los Angeles, California
Terrain.org staffed a booth and caused the usual mayhem.
October 28-31, 2015
NonfictioNOW
Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, Arizona
Terrain.org staffed a table at the regular conference that gathers nonfiction writers, teachers, and students from around the world.
July 26 – August 1, 2015
Mount St. Helens Science Pulse
Mount St. Helens, Washington
Terrain.org editors Simmons Buntin, Andrew Gottlieb, and Derek Sheffield and Terrain.org editorial board members Elizabeth Dodd and Charles Goodrich, plus other writers and artists, join scientists in the field to explore and continue a science-art dialogue on the volcano 35 years after its last major eruption. Sponsored by the Spring Creek Project at Oregon State University and the U.S.D.A. Forest Service.
June 23-27, 2015
Association for the Study of Literature and Environment Biennial Conference
Moscow, Idaho
Terrain.org is staffing a table, participating in the author’s reception and other conference activities, and hosting a reading, “Resistance Movement”, featuring Chris Dombrowski, Keetje Kuipers, Nathaniel Perry, Catherine Quayle, and Derek Sheffield.
June 12-16, 2015
Kachemak Bay Writer’s Conference
Homer, Alaska
Terrain.org editor-in-chief Simmons Buntin is a poetry workshop instructor and panelist at this annual event for writers. Sponsored by Kachemak Bay Campus – Kenai Peninsula College and University of Alaska Anchorage.
February 27 – March 1, 2014
Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Annual Conference and Bookfair
Seattle, Washington
Terrain.org’s literary reading (Prospecting, at the Klondike National Historical Park auditorium in Seattle’s Pioneer Square, Thursday, February 27, 7-8:30 p.m.), panel featuring the editors of Terrain.org, Orion, Guernica, So to Speak, and The Straddler (So You Want to Change the World? Literary Editors on Writing with a Social Purpose; Saturday morning) + table at Bookfair (Q21).
March 6-9, 2013
Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Annual Conference and Bookfair
Boston, Massachusetts
Terrain.org’s literary reading with Hawk & Handsaw: The Journal of Creative Sustainability and Ecotone: Reimagining Place, sponsored and hosted by the Emerald Necklace Conservancy, featured wonderful readings from David Gessner, Sheryl St. Germain, Derek Sheffield, Cynthia Huntington, Joe Wilkins, Lauren Eggert-Crowe, and Bill Roorbach.
March 3, 2012
Reading: Terrain.org 15th Anniversary
Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Annual Conference and Bookfair
Chicago, Illinois
We celebrated Terrain.org’s 15th anniversary with a reading at AWP, hosted by nonfiction editor Joshua Foster, and featuring readings by Elizabeth Dodd, Kathryn Miles, Lauret Savoy, and Andrew Wingfield.
February 5, 2011
“Live from AWP” Interview with Terrain.org editor-in-chief Simmons Buntin
Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Annual Conference and Bookfair
Washington, D.C.
Terrain.org contributing editor Rafael Otto interviews Terrain.org’s editor-in-chief, live from the Terrain.org table.
April 7-10, 2010
Reading: “Wild Lives /Raucous Pens”, Bookfair Table, and More
Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Annual Conference and Bookfair
Denver, Colorado
View photos from the Terrain.org / Hawk & Handsaw “Wild Lives / Raucous Pen” reading, AWP bookfair (Terrain.org table), and more.
September 24, 2009
Launch and Reading: Terrain.org Issue 24, co-sponsored by Center for Biological Diversity
The University of Arizona Poetry Center
Tucson, Arizona
A celebratory event for the launch of Issue 24. Borders + Bridges, with readings by Deborah Fries, Christopher Cokinos, Pamela Uschuk, and David Rothenberg.
Listen to the full issue launch and reading:
Please be patient, audio may load slowly. You may also download the mp3 file.
June 1-8, 2009
Terrain.org Editor-in-Chief Simmons Buntin Blogs ASLE
Association for the Study of Literature and Environment 2009 Biennial Conference
University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia
What happens when Terrain.org’s editor-in-chief spends a week at the ASLE conference in Victoria? Lots of photos and blogging, for starters.
February 2, 2008
Panel: The Future of Environmental Essay
Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Annual Conference and Bookfair
New York City, New York
Moderated by Terrain.org editor-in-chief Simmons Buntin and featuring Alison Hawthorne Deming, David Gessner, David Rothenberg, and Lauret Savoy
January 31, 2008
Reading: Terrain.org 10th Anniversary
Cornelia Street Cafe
New York City, New York
Featuring Scott Edward Anderson, Teague Bohlen, Simmons B. Buntin, Scott Calhoun, Philip Fried, Deborah Fries, Suzanne Frischkorn, Donna J. Gelagotis Lee, Dennus Must, Shann Palmer, David Rothenberg, Andrew Wingfield, and Jake Adam York
For more information, or to have Terrain.org participate in your event, please contact us.
