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By Simmons Buntin, January 11, 2008 3:12 am

Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments

Winter/Spring 2008 Issue Now Online: http://www.terrain.org

Issue No. 21 — Islands & Archipelagos — features a rich mix of contributions:

Columns

- Guest Editorial: “Restoring Abundant Oceans” by Andrew Sharpless, Oceana
- Simmons B. Buntin scribes a portrait of Fernando at Bahía de Loreto
- David Rothenberg plays clarinet to humpback whales off Hawaii
- Deborah Fries recounts the Rutherford Island life of artist Ellen Vincent

Interview

- Terrain.org interviews author David Quammen

Poetry

Poetry by Susan F. Benjamin, Donna J. Gelagotis Lee, J.D. Schraffenberger, Margarita Engle, Eric Paul Shaffer, Wendy Burk, Scott T. Starbuck, Paul Fisher, Yvonne Carpenter, Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda, and Jane Levin

Essays

- “Searching within the Archipelago” by Steve Kahn, with photos by John Hohl
- “St. Francis and the Isle of Foula” by Lynne Shapiro
- “Navajo Women: Doorway Between Traditional and Modern Life” by Betty Reid, with photos by Kenji Kawano
- “Land and Money” by William R. Stimson
- “My Farmhouse in Japan: A Breakfast to Remember” by John Roderick

UnSprawl Case Study

The Villages of Loreto Bay in Baja California Sur —an 8,000-acre new urbanist project that strives to be North America’s largest sustainable resort development; it will include village neighborhoods constructed in nine phases along the Sea of Cortés

Fiction

- “The Third Way” by Tamara Kaye Sellman
- “Pelicans” by Julian Hoffman
- “Her Best Interests” by Janet Yung
- “The Way Things Fall” by Richard Denoncourt

Articles

- “Rice Island: Bali and the Cultivation of Tradition — A Narrative Slideshow” by Colin Donohue
- “Sky Islands of North America: A Globally Unique and Threatened Inland Archipelago” by Matt Skroch
- “No Community is an Island: Tributary and the Young & the Restless” by Rick Mildner and Brian Canin
- “Tourism Takes the Bird: Are Proposed Changes to Four Seasons Development Enough to Protect the Rare Grenada Dove?” by Dr. George Wallace
- “Ocean Acidification: A Greater Threat than Global Warming or Overfishing?” by Dr. William G.C. Burns

ARTerrain Gallery

- Ten natural light photographs from Floridian Joel B. McEachern

Reviews

- Deborah Fries reviews Salmon: A Journey in Poetry, 1981-2007, edited by Jessie Lendennie
- Simmons B. Buntin reviews Phantom Limb: Essays by Theresa Kishkan
- Stephanie Eve Boone reviews Nature Cure: A Story of Depression and Healing by Richard Mabey
- Terrain.org reviews Planet Ocean: Voyage to the Heart of the Marine Realm, by Laurent Ballesta and Pierre Descamp

View new issue now at http://www.terrain.org

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By Simmons Buntin, December 2, 2007 5:35 am

The reading period for Terrain.org is currently closed, though we will continue to accept submissions and begin reading them again in February 2008.

Look for our 21st issue, “Islands & Archipelagos,” at http://www.terrain.org/ on January 10, 2008.

All submissions received prior to December 1 will receive responses by mid-December. If you don’t, please contact us.

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By Simmons Buntin, November 2, 2007 6:02 am

The submission deadline for Terrain.org’s next issue, “Islands & Archipelagos,” is December 1, 2007. We are still reviewing poetry, essays, fiction, and articles.

View submission guidelines at www.terrain.org/submit.

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By Simmons Buntin, September 28, 2007 7:37 pm

Terrain.org’s 21st issue has the theme of “Islands & Archipelagos,” and promises to be an interesting mix of literary and technical contributions, as we hope all issues are.

We are pleased to confirm that this issue’s interview will be with natural history author David Quammen, who most recent book is the biography The Reluctant Mr. Darwin. I (that is, editor Simmons Buntin) has been a fan of Quammen’s often eclectic but also essential writing since the mid-1980s, when Quammen wrote the award-winning “Natural Acts” column for Outside magazine.

The UnSprawl case study will be the new urban village of Loreto Bay in Baja California Sur, Mexico. Loreto Bay is not only unique because of its location on the Sea of Cortez, but because of its measures of sustainability which include water harvesting and desalinization, solar photovoltaic power utilization, and much more.

The ARTerrain gallery will feature the captivating water and island photography of Joel B. McEachern, who has published a brief photo-essay in Terrain.org once before.

We are still accepting submissions in the areas of poetry, essays, fiction, and articles. Submission deadline is December 1 for January 10, 2008, publication. Get more information at www.terrain.org/submit.
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By Simmons Buntin, August 6, 2007 5:19 pm

Terrain.org is now reading submissions of poetry, essay, fiction, articles, and reviews for the following three scheduled issues:

• No. 21 : Islands & Archipelagos : Submission deadline December 1, 2007, for publication January 10, 2008
• No. 22 : Understory / Overgrowth : Submission deadline June 1, 2008, for publication July 10
• No. 23 : Symbiosis : Submission deadline December 1, 2008, for publication January 10, 2009

Learn more at www.terrain.org/submit.