Orion (magazine)

Orion

File:Orion magazine.jpg July/August 2015 Orion July-August 2015 issue of Orion.
Editor-in-Chief	H. Emerson Blake
Categories	nature, culture, environment
Frequency	Bimonthly
Paid circulation	17,000
Total circulation (2008)	25,000
First issue	June 1982
Company	The Orion Society
Country	United States
Based in	Great Barrington, Massachusetts
Language	English
Website	www.orionmagazine.org
ISSN	1058-3130

Orion is a bimonthly, advertisement-free, magazine focused on nature, culture, and place addressing environmental and societal issues.

It has published such authors as Wendell Berry, Barry Lopez, Terry Tempest Williams, Michael Pollan, Mark Kurlansky, Derrick Jensen, Sandra Steingraber, Gretel Ehrlich, Bill McKibben, Barbara Kingsolver, Rebecca Solnit, Cormac Cullinan, Erik Reece, James Howard Kunstler, and E.O. Wilson.

In 2010, Orion was the recipient of Utne Reader magazine's Utne Independent Press Award for General Excellence.

Orion Book Award

Since 2007, the magazine has administered an annual book award competition, which is described by the magazine as "given annually to a book that addresses the human relationship with the natural world in a fresh, thought provoking, and engaging manner. Four additional books are named as finalists."

External links

• Official website