Get your creative juices flowing and enter Drury Lane Books’ arboreal writing contest.
Winners will receive a book prize and have a chance to read their piece at our store event on May 20, alongside Josh MacIvor-Andersen, the editor of Rooted: The Best New Arboreal Nonfiction, and author of On Heights & Hunger, a memoir of professional and competitive tree-climbing.
MacIvor-Andersen explains, “Rooted is a collection almost seven years in the making. I really wanted to anthologize contemporary essays that both manifested the incredible dexterity of the genre –the acrobatic, muscular nature of nonfiction – and illuminated the tree, a multi-specied organism that has been more than prominent in my life. I figured there’s not a person alive who doesn’t have some connection, some story, and some relationship to a tree. I really wanted to create a home for those stories. A kind of arboreal love letter.”
Submissions must be 300 words on tree-inspired fiction or nonfiction. The deadline to enter is April 29.
Email finished piece to store@drurylanebooks.com
The winners will be announced mid-May.
Winners, participants, and the public are invited to hear pieces read aloud at 7 p.m. on Saturday, May 20. Author Josh MacIvor-Andersen will also read from his new anthology on arboreal nonfiction and share stories on writing and editing.
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