some go-to drafting strategies from me & @ingridrojasc.bsky.social 🟢 as Ingrid puts it, part of writing a book necessarily involves “the art of keeping oneself going” day after day after day 3 weeks until writing workshops start at The Ministry of Words, more info below 🔵 theministryofwords.com

"Under the rule, destroying an endangered species’ nest or habitat would no longer be considered illegal." (gift article)

Trump Cuts Habitat Protections for Endangered Species (Gift Article)

The move ends a safeguard that had been in place for 50 years and could open up crucial habitats to drilling and mining.

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For the foodies: Last week, @ericajberry.bsky.social won a James Beard award for this essay 🍄 💅 congrats, Erica! orionmagazine.org/article/intu...

Intuitive Eating - Orion Magazine

On poison, pleasure, and trust

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Today we’re featuring Erica Berry’s “On Rehearsal,” a Climate Annotation evoking lilies, gender roles, childhood visions of romantic love, as well as how to respond to the climate crisis. @ericajberry.bsky.social Free to read online for the next two weeks. ecotonemagazine.org/climate-anno... ‎

Devastated by the violence against children by ICE and also: leaders in our country have condoned unspeakable violence against children in Palestine for years now. Which is to say I guess I’m not surprised? This country’s moral compass is so fucked.

Join author @ninamcconigley.bsky.social in conversation with @ericajberry.bsky.social to discuss her debut novel HOW TO COMMIT A POST-COLONIAL MURDER. You won’t want to miss this event hosted at Powell’s City of Books! Details here: powells.com/events/nina-...

Erica Berry (@ericajberry.bsky.social) is the award-winning writer of ‘Wolfish’ and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of North Carolina in Wilmington—but what did an average night look like for her as a teenager? We ask the big questions in the latest Orion Questionnaire.

Erica Berry Answers the Orion Questionnaire - Orion Magazine

In which we get to know our favorite writers better by exploring the sacred and mundane.

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I was on phone with my Montana grandma when she heard a bang in house and realized a bird had hit her window. 10 minutes later she had dissected it for dinner from “UTube.” who will help this woman get her own channel

cool that my parents just sent this photo from their garden of me and my freelance friends trying to scavenge protein amid the AI slop of our wilting media ecosystem

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On wolves, community, and the joys of illustration: Kathleen Yale, author of ‘What Goes on inside a Wolf Pack’, and Erica Berry, author of ‘Wolfish’ get together to talk about one of their favorite maligned creatures. orionmagazine.org/article/no-s...

You remember the famous Yellowstone Wolf Project? Kathleen Yale was a wildlife field technician for it a decade into its development. Her experience inspired her latest book, 'What Goes on inside a Wolf Pack,' or what @ericajberry.bsky.social calls "an elegant, thought-provoking" year-in-the-life.

No Species Lives in Isolation

A conversation about graphic storytelling, wolf-watching, and community, with children’s book author Kathleen Yale

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Or, rather: climate change is the side-effect of the rich eating the earth, and halting global heating will only be accomplished with class struggle, hopefully not an outright war.

The average U.S. taxpayer paid MINIMUM $112.12 last year on Israeli weapons. Join me in donating $112.12 for Gaza relief today (DM receipts) and I’ll pick two raffle winners: 1) a personalized copy of Wolfish sent to person of your choice 2) a one-hour Zoom writing consult

In just a few hours, Theodore Ross of @theferg.org will be in conversation with @ericajberry.bsky.social and @meerasub.bsky.social to celebrate a future of fungi. Join us at 2 p.m. ET TODAY by getting your last minute registrations in right here! orionmagazine.org/event-worksh...

I lived on Zohran’s freshman floor and he’s an excellent neighbor who always shared his pizza…and if you don’t like the idea of SHARING the pie, well I don’t what to tell you

CNN@cnn.com · last yr.

Across various private New York Facebook groups viewed by CNN – such as those for residents of the Upper East Side – some users have anonymously discussed potential plans to move out of the city following Zohran Mamdani’s primary win. cnn.it/3IpkOjr

Join Orion and our friends at @thefern.org on July 17 (that's next Thursday!) for THE FUTURE IS FUNGI. Featuring @ericajberry.bsky.social and @meerasub.bsky.social in conversation with Theodore Ross, this event will center on fungi and how we can learn to live alongside them. Register now!

Register for The Future Is Fungi

Join Orion and the Food & Environment Reporting Network (FERN) to celebrate Orion’s Summer 2025 issue, The Future Is Fungi.

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Join @orionmagazine.bsky.social & @thefern.org on July 17 (2-3pm ET) to celebrate Orion’s Summer 2025 issue, The Future Is Fungi. I’ll be in conversation with FERN editor Theodore Ross & writer @ericajberry.bsky.social, talking about our pieces for the issue. orionmagazine.org/event-worksh...

Orion and FERN Present The Future Is Fungi - Orion Magazine

Join Orion and the Food & Environment Reporting Network (FERN) to celebrate Orion’s Summer 2025 issue, The Future Is Fungi.

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"If our foraging accident had taught me anything, it was the precariousness of this equation of life. Our bodies demanded food for survival, but sometimes that food would harm us too." @ericajberry.bsky.social @orionmagazine.bsky.social orionmagazine.org/article/intu...

Intuitive Eating - Orion Magazine

On poison, pleasure, and trust

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this piece by @ericajberry.bsky.social is the first braided essay I’ve read in a while that has me appreciating the conceptual power of that form thanks to her just-pulled-back-enough weaving of the story's threads — foraging, dating, toxicity, heartbreak, love #🍄 orionmagazine.org/article/intu...

Intuitive Eating - Orion Magazine

On poison, pleasure, and trust

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Appreciate the latest update from @ericajberry.bsky.social. Esp re collective ambition. So much work we do writing, creating, and even in/around nonprofit organizing and community building is about collective ambition. It's making shared possibilities real. open.substack.com/pub/ericaber...

I flew to Vermont to help my college bf with her newborn but guess what, the baby is helping me

WRITE-A-THON UPDATE 🪄🪄 🪄yesterday we raised over $1150 for Pueblo Unido and wrote/revised tens of thousands of words - ever lucky to be a part of PDX’s big-hearted deeply inspiring writing community. Want to be on list to learn more about the June event? Let @emmapattee.bsky.social or I know

Erica Berry@ericajberry.bsky.social · last yr.

Hi PDX!! @emmapattee.bsky.social and I are doing an experimental fundraiser for Pueblo Unido PDX (supporting those w vulnerable immigration status) where we all pledge words&funds then get together and WRITE. Come channel your inner elementary school walk-a-thon-er at Steeplejack Brewing!

I've reported on the environment for 12 years in Oregon. I can't tell you how many times I've heard Oregon leaders call the state an environmental leader -- on issues where it's actually a laggard. Time and again, the reality under the rhetoric is damning. The latest example:

Liberal Oregon and Washington Vowed to Pioneer Green Energy. Almost Every Other State Is Beating Them.

The Northwest states passed aggressive goals to decarbonize the power supply but left it to the Bonneville Power Administration to build the transmission lines needed for wind and solar. The agency ha...

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Are you a graduate student in a climate-related field whose research/work/livelihood has been or may be impacted by Trump admin cuts? The @thebulletin.org has a reporter working on a story about this and would love to hear from you. Email me jmckenzie@thebulletin.org and I can put you in touch.

A woman I don’t know sent a note via my website contact form offering to let me write at her seaside guest cottage for free….obviously I said yes and now I’m here and sorry family I am never leaving

New Eula Biss in @orionmagazine.bsky.social and it's (of course) a marvel, about gardening and resistance writ large orionmagazine.org/article/forc...

42 hours in Hollywood and it’s important the people know how lacquered my hair and sweaty my pits got on the green screen

ICYMI, Donna Haraway said the years between 2000 and 2050 should be called The Great Dithering…welcome to its pinnacle 💅🏼

I'm teaching a 90 minute Zoom workshop on researched memoir next Tues (5-6:30pm PST) and there are just a few spots left online--would love to see you there! lu.ma/jrfvy1ws

Between World and Self: The Art of Researched Memoir with Erica Berry · Zoom · Luma

How might narratives from history, literature, or the natural world complement the telling of our own personal life stories? And how do you balance pivoting…

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