Journals
Journals whose subject is the natural world, ecology or the environment. General literary magazines that occasionally publish this work are not listed.
For submission windows, payment and current editorial teams, go to the journal.
Ireland
Channel — Ireland’s journal of eco-writing, publishing poetry and prose engaging the natural world. Founded in 2019 by Cassia Gaden Gilmartin and Elizabeth Murtough, after the closure of EarthLines. It has carried work in Irish since 2023, and became Channel Press, a non-profit publisher, in 2026. → channelmag.org
Irish Pages — an all-island bilingual journal published in Belfast, which carries nature writing alongside poetry, essays and translation. → irishpages.org
International
Plumwood Mountain — dedicated to ecopoetry and ecopoetics. Named for the philosopher Val Plumwood. → plumwoodmountain.com
ecopoetics — Jonathan Skinner’s journal, which ran from 2001 to 2009 and used the term for a practice rather than a subject matter. The full archive is online and free. → ecopoetics.wordpress.com
Dark Mountain — a hardback anthology of “uncivilised” writing and art, published since 2010, following the Uncivilisation manifesto of 2009. → dark-mountain.net
Orion — American magazine of nature, culture and place, published since 1982. → orionmagazine.org
Emergence Magazine — ecology, culture and spirituality; unusually well made. → emergencemagazine.org
Terrain.org — “a journal of the built and natural environments”, online since 1998. → terrain.org
Ecotone — a literary magazine “re-imagining place”, published at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. → ecotonemagazine.org
The Clearing — the online magazine of nature writing published by Little Toller. → littletoller.co.uk/the-clearing
Reliquiae — landscape, folklore, ecology and archaic texts, from Corbel Stone Press. → corbelstonepress.com
Zoomorphic — writing in defence of animals.
About Place Journal · Reckoning · The Dodge · Stonecrop Review — smaller US environmental literary magazines.
Scholarly
ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment — the journal of ASLE. → academic.oup.com/isle
Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism — the journal of ASLE-UKI, covering the UK and Ireland.
The Goose — the journal of the Association for Literature, Environment and Culture in Canada. → scholars.wlu.ca/thegoose
The Trumpeter — an environmental humanities journal “dedicated to the development of an ecosophy, or wisdom born of ecological understanding and insight”, taking its subject from Arne Naess’s term. Publishes poetry alongside scholarly articles and reviews. → trumpeter.athabascau.ca
Elsewhere
A fuller international list, maintained by others: EcoLit Books. For Irish literary journals generally, most of which are not ecological, Anne O’Leary keeps the current listing.
Last checked 2026-08-13