Ecotone congratulates Jill McCorkle on her story “The Lineman,” from the Craft Issue, winner of the 2018 Stack Magazine Awards in Best Original Fiction! Subscribe now to receive our fall/winter issue.
Visiting with her family in her mother’s homeland of Armenia, an essayist ventures to a Christian monastery and a pagan temple, searching for her heritage among cross-stones and fish-dragons.
A writer chronicles the life and times of the African clawed frog, from the one her father purchased for her childhood terrarium, to the species’ part in the development of modern pregnancy tests, to her twin sister’s research on the frog’s role in the global chitryd pandemic.
On the long drive to visit a national park, and on the trails and at a river within that park, a poet contemplates a landscape she loves, and in the process takes on cultural appropriation, white privilege, and the gendering of wilderness.
After the death of a childhood acquaintance, a writer contemplates poverty, violence, and the culture of her hometown, examining her own escape from it, and the lives of those who stayed.
On the shores of a suburban lake, a poet and essayist walks the line between decaying industry and remnant wildness, trying to transform the language she has for these landscapes.
Traveling into the heart of coal country along with her friend and collaborator, Kelley Libby, a Virginia writer documents time spent with coal miner, Regular Baptist preacher, and renowned singer Frank Newsome, and tracks changes in her own thinking about her state’s environment and how people interact with it.
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