Congaree Anthology - Meet Our Team
CASSIE
Cassie Premo Steele's newest book is the environmental novel, Beaver Girl, chosen as the 2024 One Book, One Community selection for the City of Columbia, SC. An environmental poet, novelist, and essayist, her writing focuses on the themes of trauma, healing, creativity, and mindfulness, and she participates in community events and teaches classes on these themes online and in person.
She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. The author of 18 books, including 3 novels and 7 books of poetry, her poetry has won many awards and been nominated 8 times for the Pushcart Prize. For the past five years, she has led free seasonal Forest Wellness Journaling Workshops at Congaree National Park. "Still Here" is her monthly column for The Post and Courier's Free Times, which highlights the wild and rural places across the state of South Carolina, where she lives with her wife.
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Congaree Anthology
CALL FOR
SUBMISSIONS
Special consideration will be given to submissions that incorporate the important history of the region as a place of rest and refuge for Native and African Americans, as well as submissions that feature the unique biodiversity of the Congaree Biosphere Reserve, named by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site, and Congaree National Park, which contains the largest intact expanse of old growth bottomland hardwood forest remaining in the southeastern United States. The anthology will express the ways in which the landscape mirrors the resilience of the people who inhabited this area from the pre-historic to the present.
We encourage you to visit Congaree National Park and discover the amazing biodiversity there, as well as to read and research the history of the diversity of people who have called Congaree home over the centuries.
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Congaree Anthology
CALL FOR
SUBMISSIONS
Astonishing biodiversity exists in
Congaree National Park, the largest intact expanse of old growth bottomland hardwood forest remaining in the southeastern United States. Waters from the Congaree and Wateree Rivers sweep through the floodplain, carrying nutrients and sediments that nourish and rejuvenate this ecosystem and support the growth of national and state champion trees.
To celebrate Congaree's vast, complex, and enchanting history, we invite writers and artists to submit their work inspired by the park and their relationship to the physical space it occupies.
Submit up to 5 pieces with a 5-page,
1000-word limit total, by using this form via QR code:
Poems, fiction, essays, photography,
painting, mixed media welcome!
SUBMISSIONS DUE:
AUGUST 31 2025
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