FRESH OUT OF COLLEGE and into the Great Recession, I abandoned my studies to chase a childhood dream: to join the pantheon of dolphin and whale trainers anywhere I could be near captive cetaceans.

DO YOU LOVE ORION? Have you ever imagined getting your work published by us? Well, you might be in luck! In September, Orion ...

THE DRY COUNTRY IS fond of yellow as its accent color. The landscape primarily clothes itself in tones of earthy strata and the soft neutrals of grassland, but yellow is always part of the ensemble, ...

The genre of environmental writing has been expanding in recent years.

Meditations on time and rebellion against the straight line ...

THE FIRST TIME I READ Krista Diamond’s work was in spring 2022. It was an essay called “On Hiking Alone,” a piece that exhorts, with a delicious full-throatedness, the joys of solitude on and ...

Orion magazine hosts regular Online Environmental Writers’ Workshops in poetry and nonfiction. This unique opportunity lets you improve your writing skills and build community from home. Connect with ...

Freeman House is a former commercial salmon fisher who has been involved with a community-based watershed restoration effort in northern California for more than twenty years. His book Totem Salmon: ...