On Trees: A Conversation With Peter Wohlleben, Jessica J. Lee, and Sumana Roy
OnlineThe Forest School at the Yale School of the Environment and Orion Magazine present a second event in a series to celebrate Orion’s new anthology, Old Growth. “On Trees” will feature a conversation Continue reading
Online Poetry Writers’ Workshop with Jennifer Elise Foerster
OnlineThe Course: Abundant Practice The world we live in provides a daily invitation for insight—for reflection, revisioning, and reorientation of our writing lives with our ecological lives. In this class, we Continue reading
Online Nonfiction Writers’ Workshop with Alison Hawthorne Deming
OnlineThe Course: This nonfiction workshop will focus on the art of scientific storytelling in facing the challenges of the Anthropocene. Our aim is to learn together how to tell vivid science-smart Continue reading
Online Nonfiction Writers’ Workshop with Gary Ferguson
OnlineThe Course: What the Land Inspires: Literary critic Frank Stewart described writers whose work focuses on nature as “bringing together the scientific and the poetic,” to render something bigger than the Continue reading
Online Nonfiction Writers’ Workshop with Christopher Merrill
OnlineThe Course: This nonfiction course will combine generative exercises, close readings of exemplary essays, and workshopping of texts, new and old, that students bring to the table. We will discuss how Continue reading
CSI Skill Tree: Cloud Gardens
OnlineAs part of Arizona State University's CSI Skill Tree series, we examine and celebrate how video games envision possible futures, build rich and thought-provoking worlds, and engage people as active participants in Continue reading
Orion & Person Place Thing Present “Birding with J. Drew Lanham”
OnlineOrion & the Person Place Thing podcast team up for a live web recording with Orion contributing editor J. Drew Lanham about birding. Randy Cohen will be in lively conversation with Continue reading
Online Poetry Writers’ Workshop with Anne Haven McDonnell
OnlineThe Course: Refreshing Our Wonder/Honoring Our Grief: Eco-Poetry in a Time of Ecological Crisis How can poetry speak towards our shared and private griefs and wonder in this precarious moment of Continue reading
Online Fiction and Creative Nonfiction Workshop with Laura Pritchett
OnlineThe course: Writing Place: Experimental Forms and Techniques Experimentation is where it’s at these days—especially in the world of nature writing. If you take a look at today’s best place-based literary Continue reading
The Language of Trees: A Conversation with Alison Hawthorne Deming and Kathleen Dean Moore
The Forest School at the Yale School of the Environment, Orion Magazine and The Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology present the third event in a series to celebrate Orion’s latest Continue reading
Person Place Thing & Orion: Live Podcast Recording
Orion Magazine and Person Place Thing are teaming up for a live virtual recording of the popular podcast hosted by Randy Cohen. Randy will be in lively conversation with the award-winning writer and Orion contributing editor Continue reading
Orion’s 40th Anniversary Celebration
OnlineJoin Orion to celebrate forty years of publishing the best in environmental writing! The evening will feature appearances by Margaret Atwood, Rebecca Solnit, Camille Dungy, Jeff VanderMeer, Vanessa Nakate, Bill McKibben, Continue reading
‘Pig Years’: A Conversation with Rick Bass and Ellyn Gaydos
Mechanics Hall, Portland ME 519 Congress Street, Portland, MEJoin award winning writers Rick Bass and Ellyn Gaydos for a lunch time event in celebration of Gaydos' beautiful debut memoir, PIG YEARS, a book Anthony Doerr is calling "a pulsing, Continue reading