A double rainbow at midnight on the Hulahula River, photo by Shannon Huffman Polson
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS!
The Ultima Thule, Adventures in America’s Northernmost Lands, is a website and anthology dedicated to education about and preservation of Alaska’s public lands in the Arctic. Featuring a blog of two trips to the Arctic this summer, one in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and one to the Western Arctic, the Ultima Thule is expanding to include your stories and experiences in these special and remote places in order to bring people a variety of experiences representative of the vast and varied nature of this important part of our state, and its need for protection. Because it is a website, the Ultima Thule will also showcase selected photography and multi-media, as well as representation of artwork in other media. All artists submitting work which is accepted will be featured on the Artists’ Bio page. Previously published work is welcome. We are developing plans to publish selected submissions as a print anthology within the next two years.
2010 is the 50th Anniversary of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The coastal plains are still not protected. With Canada’s dwindling Beverly herd to the east, the threat of development to these fragile eco-systems is real. The next two years will bring increased focus to legislation to protect these special areas. Because so few have visited, it is important to share all of our experiences.
We hope you will consider sharing your work, written or other artistic media, for the Ultima Thule web anthology. Please send your submission (short submissions welcome, or essays up to 5,000 words, or ten photographs or other media images) along with a short bio and picture, to Shannon Polson at ps (at) polsons dot com.
Thank you for helping to bring awareness to our northernmost public lands!