Resilience is like? Caption Contest
Finish this sentence:
Resilience is like….
If the editors like your take, we’ll ask talented nationally-known cartoonist Liana Finck to draw it for us.
The cartoon above is the editor’s example.
Top ideas not only get published but also get their pick of 11 great book prizes.
Just email the EDITOR
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Book Prizes
A fascinating mix of prize books, selected by KneeDeep’s editors, including everything from future-fiction to eco-mystery to landscape memoir, as well as disaster reflections, natural history, and climate change journalism. Many authors are local or from California.
- California Against the Sea: Visions for Our Vanishing Coastline by Rosanna Xia
- The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration by Jake Bittle
- A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster by Rebecca Solnit
- The Rotting Whale: A Hugo Sandoval Eco-Mystery by Jann Eyrich
- The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
- Miracle Country: A Memoir by Kendra Atleework
- All We Can Save, Truth, Courage, & Solutions to the Climate Crisis, an anthology of essays by 60 women
- Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World by John Vaillant
- The Last Fire Season by Manuja Martin
- A Children’s Bible: A Novel by Lydia Millet
