Craft Essays
Desire Lines
Newsletter
The Sky, the Earth, the Sea, the Soul
CMarie Fuhrman and Ese Erheriene offer subversive poetry. Teresa Baker and Midy Aponte-Vargas reflect on advocating for diversity and justice. Holly Chen evokes the power of small moments. And an excerpt from Dorothy Pilley’s 1935 classic, Climbing Days on early women-only expeditions.
Book Review
Book Review — A Moving Border: Alpine Cartographies of Climate Change
By: Amanda Vestergaard | Edited by Andrea Bagnato, Marco Ferrari, and Elisa Pasqual (Columbia University Press, 2018) If national borders are mapped onto natural geographical boundaries, what happens when those boundaries begin to melt? Published in 2019, A Moving Border: Alpine Cartographies of Climate Change is a beautifully produced volume describing
Interviews
Interview — Only Barely Still – On Women and Wilderness
By Kang-Chun (KC) Cheng | This interview previously appeared in the June 2026 Newsletter Kang-Chun (KC) Cheng interviews Belgian photographer Catherine Lemblé about her photo book Only Barely Still – On Women and Wilderness, which reimagines the Arctic through the lives of the women living there, with a particular focus
Craft Essays
On Writing the Altered Landscape
Writer Resources
Awards for Nature, Environmental, Science, and Mountain Writing Books, Stories, and Articles
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Continuing Education
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Residencies
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Grants & Fellowships
Craft Essays
In Praise of Specificity in Climbing Writing
By: Katie Ives | This essay previously appeared in the June 2026 Newsletter Over a decade ago, a ski magazine editor told me that he envied climbing writers because the experience of ascent seemed to lend itself readily to precise, vivid descriptions. As we make our way up a cliff, we
Writer Resources
How to Pitch an Editor
Book Review
Book Review — Flow: Women's Counternarratives from Rivers, Rock, and Sky
By Katie Ives | A version of this review originally appeared in Alpinist 90. Beneath old formulaic tales of men's dominion over mountains, rivers, and air, there have always been more varied stories by people of all genders — at times flowing like underground streams or bursting forth with a