The editors of Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built + Natural Environments are delighted to announce the launch of our new Issue 31, with the theme of “Ruin and Renewal (Part II)”, in an image-rich, dynamic new website design: http://terrain.org.

The Winter 2013 issue extends the “Ruin and Renewal” theme from our Fall 2012 issue, and includes the winning and finalist entries from our 3rd annual contests in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry; a special “To Know a Place” section from six writers on Mount St. Helens; guest editorial by Alison Hawthorne Deming; new “Eyes on the Street” column from urban designer and landscape architect Ken Pirie; Downtown Silver Spring, Maryland, as the Unsprawl case study by Montgomery County planner John Marcolin; David Rothenberg on ruin and renewal in Estonia and Norway; and more.

In This “Ruin and Renewal” Issue

Columns

• “Ruin and Renewal,” Guest Editorial by Alison Hawthorne Deming, with audio
• “Ungilded: The Lost Splendor of Lynnewood Hall,” by Deborah Fries
• “Eyes on the Street,” by Ken Pirie
• “The Swan Petroglyph and the Wild Reindeer Pavilion,” by David Rothenberg, with video
• “Dirty Words on Mount St. Helens,” by Simmons B. Buntin, with photo gallery

Unsprawl Case Study

• Downtown Silver Spring, Maryland, by John Marcolin

Poetry

• Two poems by Genevieve Leet, 3rd Annual Poetry Contest winner, with audio
• Four poems by Tina Schumann, with audio
• Three poems by Robin Carstensen, with audio
• Three poems by Lissa Kiernan
• Two poems by Martha Silano, with audio
• Two poems by Amy Ratto Parks, with audio
• One poem by David Bernardy, with audio
• One poem by Lisa Rosinsky, with audio
• Two Mount St. Helens poems by John Daniel, with audio
• Two Mount St. Helens poems by Cheryl J. Fish, with audio
• One Mount St. Helens poem by Christina Colasurdo, with audio
• Two Mount St. Helens poems by Derek Sheffield, with audio

 Nonfiction

• “Love and Industry: A Midwestern Workbook,” by Sonya Huber, 3rd Annual Nonfiction Contest winner, with audio
• “The Hawk Lady,” by Langdon Cook
• “Awake in L.A.,” by Josh Shear
• “Tortoise,” by Jacqueline Kolosov, with audio
• “I Have Lived My Whole Life on this Boat (Kerala Backwaters),” by Marco Wilkinson
• “Drawing from the Blast Zone,” a Mount St. Helens essay by Jolie Kaytes, with image gallery
• “Stretching Attention: Long-Term Science and Creative Writing,” a Mount St. Helens essay by Charles Goodrich

Fiction

• “Color Has History,” by Courtney Amber Kilian, 3rd Annual Fiction Contest winner, with audio
• “The Hurricane,” by Hope Coulter
• “Real Estate,” by Kristie Letter
• “At the Dune Shack,” by Joan Kane Nichols, with audio

Interview

• “Telling Stories,” Janine DeBaise interviews author and all-around sea-going gal Kathryn Miles

ARTerrain Gallery

• “Precarious Alliance,” illustrations and paintings of place and placelessness by Lucinda Bliss

Reviews

• Craig Reinbold Reviews The Chalk Circle: Intercultural Prizewinning Essays, Edited by Tara L. Masih
• Andrew C. Gottlieb reviews Recapture and Other Stories, by Erica Olsen
• Simmons B. Buntin Reviews Earth Works: Selected Essays, by Scott Russell Sanders

View the full issue at http://terrain.org.