Book & Paper Awards
ASLE has established book and graduate student paper awards in the areas of ecocriticism and environmental creative writing; the first awards were given at the 2007 Biennial Conference held at Wofford College in Spartanburg, SC. Information on the winners and their works is below; to read in more detail about the awards, see the article in the Fall 2007 ASLE News.
2009 Awards
ASLE has announced the prizes, deadlines and rules for the second biennial awards, to be given in 2009:
2007 Book Award Winners
Ecocritical Work: Robert N. Watson, Back to Nature: The Green and the Real in the Late Renaissance (U Penn P).
Creative Writing: Gretchen Legler, On the Ice: An Intimate Portrait of Life at McMurdo Station, Antarctica (Milkweed).
2007 Graduate Student Paper Award Winners
Scholarly Paper: Jill Gatlin, University of Washington, “Landscapes and Lungs: Toxicity, Space, and Race in Hubert Skidmore’s Hawk’s Nest."
Creative Writing: Flannery Scott, Western Illinois University, “The Highest Places.”
All four award recipients were honored at the closing conference banquet in Spartanburg with monetary awards and a public recognition of their work. The graduate student papers will also be featured in future issue of ISLE.