Cascadia Magazine's first journalism award! + Harm reduction saved 3,000 lives in BC, Oregon passes campaign finance limits, WA to seek consent from tribes, Seattle seawall helping migrating salmon, an interview with Seattle author Richard Chiem, and a profile of Seattle band Tacocat.
Canuck the Crow is a father, feds change rules that could affect Hanford cleanup, will new regs squeeze out small BC cannabis growers?, getting rainbow trout out of the South Fork Snake River, why who you buy John Okada's novel from matters, and a Eugene artist who works with animal bones.
New poetry from Shin Yu Pai, violence against Indigenous women is "genocide," bike & pedestrian death on rise in WA, fishing practices are choking BC glass sponges, drama awards in Vancouver and Portland, poetry by Katy Elis, and more...
"there is no separation between
her and obliteration when she watches
a juvenile squid, logilo opalescens
expire in the weathered palm of
the retired smokejumper..."
Shin Yu Pai's poem explores mortality and the creation of art in the space where cultures intersect.
Seattle poised to make it easier to build backyard cottages, drawing attention to BC's murdered Indigenous women, what's up with 5G & Huawei?, battling northern pike to save Columbia River salmon, McKenzie Bezos to give away a lot of money, and BC poet Roy Miki's long career.
Mixed news on homelessness, BC opioid epidemic hitting Indigenous people hard, OR passes difficult bill to fix pension system, wildfire smoke has already arrived in Cascadia, can WA's pygmy rabbits avoid extinction, building robots to fight patriarchy, & poetry by Laura Read.
Navy tests could injure orcas, rezoning Vancouver to allow cannabis sales, what it's like to be the Oregon House's only black rep, documenting abortion in Cascadia, remembering the Vanport floods, and an essay Alayna Becker.
Poet and UBC writing instructor Ian Williams talks about his new novel, Reproduction, as well as writing about race in Canada, creating unlikeable characters, and switching from poetry to fiction.
Watch our Defining Cascadia panel discussion online! Plus, Idaho transgender prison case could set precedent, are steps to save orcas enough, court ruling on BC pipeline limits expected, BC failing to protect spotted owls, weird and quirky places to visit in Cascadia this summer and poetry by Jenifer Lawrence.
Where to hike on the Olympic Peninsula over Memorial Day, WA pushes cities to increase housing density, reviving a First Nations fishing technique, OR increases funds to solve murders of Indigenous women. Plus: tree librarians and forest therapists, & an essay by Vancouver writer Stephanie Lo.
