SELC is now accepting submissions for the annual Reed Environmental Writing Award. The award seeks to enhance public awareness of the value and vulnerability of the region's natural heritage by giving special recognition to writers who most effectively tell the stories about the South's environment.
SELC is pleased to announce the winners of this year's Phillip D. Reed Memorial Award for Outstanding Writing on the Southern Environment. In the Book category, Tennessee naturalist and Methodist minister Charles W. Maynard won for The Blue Ridge Ancient and Majestic: A Celebration of the World's Oldest Mountains, published by Mountain Trail Press. In the Journalism category, Sam Evans, a recent law school graduate, won for "Voices from the Desecrated Places: A Journey to End Mountaintop Removal Mining," published in the Harvard Environmental Law Review.
The Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC), the largest conservation organization dedicated to protecting the environment of the Southeast, is pleased to host renowned southern writer Silas House (Eli the Good, Something’s Rising) at the upcoming Virginia Festival of the Book in a special event on Saturday, March 19, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at The Haven in downtown Charlottesville.
The Southern Environmental Law Center is now accepting submissions for the annual Phillip D. Reed Memorial Award for Outstanding Writing on the Southern Environment. The award seeks to enhance public awareness of the value and vulnerability of the region's natural heritage by giving special recognition to writers who most effectively tell the stories about the South's environment.
SELC is pleased to announce the winners of this year's Phillip D. Reed Memorial Award for Outstanding Writing on the Southern Environment: John Hall for Headwaters: A Journey on Alabama Rivers, published by the University of Alabama Press and Becky Johnson for "Celebrating 75 Years of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park," published in a special edition of the Smoky Mountain Living.
The Southern Environmental Law Center is pleased to host renowned southern writer Lee Smith at the upcoming Virginia Festival of the Book in a special event on Saturday, March 20 from 12 noon to 2 p.m. at City Space on the downtown pedestrian mall.
SELC is now accepting submissions for the annual Phillip D. Reed Memorial Award for Outstanding Writing on the Southern Environment.