News and events from Ashland Creek Press
We are delighted to present Reading Animals/Writing Animals, sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Writers’ Union of Canada, with Siskiyou Prize winner and Among Animals 3 contributor Nadja Lubiw-Hazard. This event took place live on Wednesday, May 24, and we had a spectacular turnout. We are pleased to share the recording …
Cassie Premo Steele is the author of Earth Joy Writing and creator and instructor of A Year of Earth Joy Writing, a series of four workshops aligned with the seasons and with Earth Joy Writing. These workshops, available online and via Zoom, can be taken individually or as a four-season course; learn more here. In …
We are delighted to invite you to enjoy the workshop Release the Dark, Receive the Light: An Earth Joy Writing Winter Workshop with Cassie Premo Steele, Ph.D. This workshop is part of the Year of Earth Joy Writing series, four hour-long workshops aligned with the seasons that are designed to help you harness your creativity, connect more …
Our friend Philip McKibbin has created an exciting website designed to engage with New Zealanders and the animals they share their islands with. The website is called Animals Inbox. It presents messages written on behalf of the animals of Aotearoa New Zealand, and readers are invited to write back. The project aims to promote critical …
This interview was conducted and edited by Ashland Creek Press intern Rachel Harris. Q: What inspired you to write this story? A: For five years I worked on a farm where we raised and slaughtered birds for meat. I am fairly comfortable handling living animals and dead animals, but I can’t get myself to kill an …