The Siskiyou Prize for New Environmental Literature this year opened up submissions to unpublished manuscripts. I submitted. And a REAL (awesome) HUMAN (Deb Olin Unferth @debolinunferth )—or maybe multiple judges on a panel, I don’t know how these things work—has ACTUALLY read an entire (*older draft) of my manuscript and chose it as a finalist for a prize and well, there are some little, but very timely, things you hold so very-very close to your writer-heart, and this will always-always be one of them. ❤️ Thank you @ashlandcreekpress and congrats to the winner @nmlhazard! #ecolit #siskiyouprize #environmentalliterature