On Not Baiting the Monster - Orion Magazine Or "North America’s answer to Nessie"

Now accepting members for the Creeped-Out-By-Deep-Water-Club 🙋🏿 🙋🏼 🙋🏽 🙋 🙋🏾 🙋🏻

Leath Tonino on depths—and their monsters. From our Winter issue, CRYPTIDS.

ICA | BOOK LAUNCH Tendrils: ecopoetics of community and justice The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) is London’s leading space for contemporary culture. We commission, produce and present new work in film, music, performance and the visual arts by today’s most...

We have a book launch for TENDRILS: ECOPOETICS OF COMMUNITY AND JUSTICE coming up Feb 11 at the ICA in London. Do join us! www.ica.art/talks/book-l...

Ohhh thank you!! What company. 😍

6. A held breath Or: On slowing down and taking breaks

Wrote a bit about slowing down - and deadlines. jessicajlee.substack.com/p/6-a-held-b...

4. Tracing the outlines Or: Missing making while the pottery studio was closed

Some thoughts on structure in writing and pottery. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Writers! The incomparable @jessicajlee.bsky.social and Lauren Camp are hosting two separate workshops beginning this October, and we’re accepting your applications until Sept 15. We can’t wait to read them.

Learn more and apply here: orionmagazine.org/events-works...

2. On Ice Cream and Expectations Or: On parenting and slowing down

Wrote a bit about putting our reader's feet on the ground, slowing down, and eating ice cream. jessicajlee.substack.com/p/2-on-ice-c...

From Proposal to Page Workshop: A nonfiction writing workshop with Jessica J. Lee. - Orion Magazine The Course: The More-Than-Human World from Proposal to Page This nonfiction course will center on a wealth of contemporary work inspired by the more-than-human world,...

My @orionmagazine.bsky.social workshop on environmental book proposals is currently open for applications! If you'd like to write your book proposal with a like-minded group of writers while gaining some industry insights, do take a look. orionmagazine.org/event-worksh...

So glad you could join us!!

Thank you!!

Fruit tree haul made a perfect pairing for our office book club today. Loved this by @jessicajlee.bsky.social. 🍃

You will be so incredible on this, I'm sure of it! :D

Writing on Nature Course? Looking forward to tutoring this for @grantamag.bsky.social @grantabooks.bsky.social, directed by the brilliant @jessicajlee.bsky.social. It’s going to be an exciting & busy autumn! Applications open now: workshops.granta.com/courses/natu... #naturewriting #booksky

I guess I wasn’t expecting nonfiction about plants to make me cry, but the last essay in @jessicajlee.bsky.social’s Dispersals did just that 🪻

If it helps, I cried a lot writing that one. 😅 Thank you for reading!

Beautiful!! I often find the explaining in toddler terms completely helps me get to the core of something.

So if you see my wrangling a three-year-old up a mountain or into a wetland or whatever, I guess that's just my life now.

Which is to say: I was always unsure about writing my kid into a story. But I equally don't want to write in the (often male) mode that ignores having left my kid home to go into the field. There is a middle path here somewhere and I am trying to walk it.

Thinking about nature writing & parenting. How quickly the childcare/workdays pass. Later in spring I'll bring my toddler into the field with me to see critically endangered fish. As I write about the future of the world, doesn't it only make sense that I bring her along? It's her future, anyway.

CALL FOR POETRY SUBMISSIONS!

Seed/Spore/Rhizome: Ecopoetics of Community and Justice - a new anthology with fieldnotes collective, edited by @pairedaeza.bsky.social, Jessica J. Lee, @alycia.bsky.social & Nina Mingya Powles.

Deadline 30/04/25. Guidelines here: www.silverpress.org/blogs/news/c...

what company! 😍

Our Time is a Garden v. 2 SBWN is excited to announce our first of a series of short courses: a 2-day programme on the theme of nature poetry.

Please share: Last chance! Register for the 2-day nature poetry course tomorrow, including a workshop with fieldnotes collective (@alycia.bsky.social,
@jessicajlee.bsky.social, @pairedaeza.bsky.social and Nina Mingya Powles) scottishbpocwritersnetwork.org/our-time-is-...

THE WILLOWHERB REVIEW Publishing new non-fiction, fiction, and poetry on nature, place, and environment by emerging and established writers of colour.

I'd add all the work in The Willowherb Review. :) www.thewillowherbreview.com

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Ohhhh thank you!!! 🤩

No just insta/youtube/tiktok/here. Trying to avoid having to write a newsletter on top of my books lol!

Oh thanks for this!

I hope you and your students enjoyed it!

A woman (Jessica) at her desk with a Christmas tree in the corner, colourful stockings on the wall, and a dog on the chair behind her.

Respectfully: I'm quite happy to be winding up Zoom calls for the season, but for no one to get to see my now festive backdrop feels wrong. 🎄

The cover of this too is a glistening on a blue-purple-pink gradient background. The cover is a cyanotype of two leaves. The cover is printed in bright pink.

These fieldnotes burst through with vivid and slow time. Gleamingly suffused with an architecture - an ecotecture - of small details, this accretion of textures and feelings meditatively render what it means to sense oneself and to sense the other in a world made different. - Jay Gao

Today is publication day for 'this too is a glistening' (Bitter Melon Press) by me, Pratyusha, Nina Mingya Powles & @jessicajlee.bsky.social 💜

Thanks to @jaygao.bsky.social for this amazing blurb!

Last copies of our first print run are avail at bookstores & bittermelon.weebly.com/store/p13/th...