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Poems and stories wanted
for an anthology of nature writing about Orange County, California.
(No deadline. We will continue to review submissions
until we have selected enough to make a book.)
Guidelines for Submissions:
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Send up to five poems or five pages of prose—fiction or nonfiction (2500 words maximum)
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Each piece of writing must name the wild place in Orange County that inspired it (either in the title, epigraph, or piece itself).
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Copy and paste your work into the body of your email. No attachments (because of virus concerns).
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Include your contact information (name, address, phone, email).
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Poems and stories in Native American languages or in Spanish are encouraged, but must also include English translations. (Both versions will be published side-by-side.)
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Work previously published must include name of magazine, issue, and date. If the piece was previously published in a book, include title of book, publisher, and date.
Send your poems and stories to: ocnaturewriting@sbcglobal.net
What are we looking for?
Although 3 million people live in Orange County, and countless tourists visit each year, to many folks a significant part of this place remains invisible—the thousands of acres of wild lands that are part of the California Floristic Province, one of the top 25 biodiversity hotspots in the world.
Just minutes from busy freeways, Orange County’s oak and riparian woodlands, coastal sage scrub and chaparral plant communities are home to a variety of wild things that creep and flower and fly, and in former times the coastal plains, foothills and mountain ranges were home to generations of humans whose lifeways depended on the amazing variety of creatures and plants which thrive here.
How can we honor and help preserve these places and their stories?
This anthology hopes to respond to that challenge by providing an opportunity to share some of our passion about the natural world of Orange County, CA.
Fellow nature ramblers—can you put into compelling and creative words exactly what you've noticed about the hills, fog, wind, trees, trails, seasons, birds, dust, insects, sand, light, mammals, heat, rocks, plants, and winter creeks of Orange County? What do you remember? What is vanishing before our eyes? What unique vantage point and stories can you share?
Please pass this call for submissions on to others who might be interested . . .
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