I don’t quite know how many essays I’ve published in Orion over the years, but I’m thankful for every one. Here’s a new, “Broken Badlands,” from the latest issue:
WHEN WE ARE SMALL and close to the earth, there is more landscape than time. It’s only later that we forget. Only later that we begin to play pretend.
Joe Wilkins, from “Broken Badlands,” Orion Autumn 2021
A little late with this, but I’ve got an essay up over at Lithub about rural America, community, and cultural division.
I’ve got new essays in recent issues of Orion and Riverteeth. Both grow out of our time down on the Rogue, time which seems to matter more and more as the days recede.
I’m late getting this up, but I have an essay, “Dry Season“–all about landscape, choice, and generations–in the October issue of The Sun. You can only read a selection online, but if you don’t subscribe to The Sun, well, you should.
I’m thinking of this one as my Midwestern: We Had to Go On Living, a limited-edition chapbook of two essays, “Northern Pike,” which originally appeared in the Harvard Review, and “Bruised,” originally appearing in The Sun, from our years in small-town Iowa. Thanks to Red Bird Chapbooks for their attention to these essays and for the beautifully designed chapbook.
Very jazzed to have an essay on wild bison and land use in the latest issue of Montana Quarterly, a beautifully designed magazine full of great writing. Here’s a bit from the issue announcement:
Check out the Montana Quarterly’s spring lineup: Tim Cahill, Craig Lancaster and Joe Wilkins, just for starters. Their props include a couple High Plains Book Awards, even an Oscar nomination. And we’re just getting started. Click here to subscribe: http://www.themontanaquarterly.com/subscribe/
Wow. My essay “Out West,” orginally in Orion last fall, has just been nominated for a National Magazine Award (also known as an “Ellie”). And I’m up against Garrison Keillor, Mitch Albom, and Michael Pollan!
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