Judges have announced the finalists for the 2023 ASLE Book Awards. The awards, in the categories of ecocriticism and environmental creative writing, were established in 2007 and have been given biennially to recognize excellence in the field.

Winners will be announced this June and celebrated at the Authors’ Reception at the 2023 Conference in Portland Oregon on July 10. These finalists are books authored or edited by ASLE and international affiliate members. Congratulations to our short-listed authors, read more about their books below.

Last May 13, 2022, Astrida Neimanis and the FEELed Lab of the University of British Columbia Okanagan worked with Rina Garcia Chua (ASLE’s Immediate Past Diversity Co-Officer) to come together for a one-day symposium of performative workshops, embodied storytelling, and moving performances to initiate a space for creative and critical engagements with the Okanagan’s environments in the Woodhaven Eco-Culture Centre.

Fire+Water was a day meant for self-reflection, community-strengthening, and reworlding that centred Indigenous, Black, and person of colour voices in responding to the socio-cultural ...

The 2023 conference for the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, UK and Ireland (ASLE-UKI) will be hosted by the Literature and Science Hub at the University of Liverpool. ASLE-UKI welcomes participation from scholars, readers, and creative practitioners interested in the relationships between literatures, environments and cultures – past, present, or future – from anywhere in the world.

The theme of the 2023 conference is “Transitions“. Keynote speakers include: Brycchan Carey, Nandini Das, Caroline Edwards, Graeme MacDonald, Chris Pak, and Craig Santos Perez.

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Queer and Trans Climate Futures

Special Cluster for Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment (ISLE)

Guest Edited by Austin Lillywhite and Davy Knittle 

Call for Submissions:

How do conversations about climate futures change queer and trans studies—and, in turn, how do queer and trans studies reframe environmental humanities approaches to climate precarity? Given queer and trans studies’ twin emphases on reframing queer- and trans-phobic accusations of ontological “unnaturalness” on the one hand, and negotiating the politics of how racialized expectations of gender and sexuality shape reproductive versus ...