Ecotone

Ecotone The literary magazine that seeks to reimagine place Ecotone’s mission is to publish and promote the best place-based work being written today.

Founded in 2005 at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, on the traditional and ancestral territory of the Waccamaw, Catawba, and Cape Fear People, the award-winning magazine features writing and art that reimagine place. Our authors interpret this charge expansively. An ecotone is a transition zone between two adjacent ecological communities, containing the characteristic species of each.

It is therefore a place of danger or opportunity, a testing ground. The magazine explores the ecotones between landscapes, literary genres, scientific and artistic disciplines, identities, and modes of thought. Writing of place must include the perspectives of historically and currently marginalized writers and artists. We welcome work by people who have been underrepresented in literary publishing and in place-based contexts, including writers and artists who are Black, Indigenous, people of color, people with disabilities, people who are gender-nonconforming and LGBTQIA+, people with low access to wealth, people from rural places, and women. We understand that there can be no environmental and climate justice without racial justice, and we are dedicated to helping build and maintain a supportive and inclusive literary community for all. Our editorial team will continue to explore how we can improve our efforts. In March 2022, Ecotone received the AWP Small Press Publisher Award. Since 2020, the magazine has been a finalist for the Whiting Literary Magazine Prize (2021), the ASME Award for Fiction (2020), CLMP’s Firecracker Awards (2020), and the AWP Small Press Publisher Award (2020). Among our contributors are winners of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, as well as MacArthur, Guggenheim, and NEA fellows. But we’re equally excited to honor new voices. We don't post here too often—but you can find us on Twitter and on Instagram .

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Ecotone’s mission is to publish and promote the best place-based work being written today. Founded at the University of North Carolina Wilmington in 2005, the award-winning magazine features writing and art that reimagine place, and our authors interpret this charge expansively. An ecotone is a transition zone between two adjacent ecological communities, containing the characteristic species of each. It is therefore a place of danger or opportunity, a testing ground. The magazine explores the ecotones between landscapes, literary genres, scientific and artistic disciplines, modes of thought.

Among Ecotone’s contributors are winners of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, as well as MacArthur, Guggenheim, and NEA fellows. But we’re equally excited to honor new voices. Work first published in the magazine is featured in Poetry Daily, Best American Essays, Best American Short Stories, Best American Poetry, Best American Science and Nature Writing, The Pushcart Prize, and The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, among others.

Ecotone is produced by faculty and students in the MFA program at UNC Wilmington. Along with our sister imprint, Lookout Books, we champion innovative and underrepresented work and offer UNC Wilmington students the opportunity to learn the art and craft of publishing.

Now a decade strong, Ecotone continues to celebrate our talented, diverse, award-winning contributors, who in each issue offer new takes on the art of place-based writing.