North Woods at Night: Literary Reflections on Maine's Largest Forest

Finalist - Maine Literary Awards 2025

Maine's North Woods span 3.5 million acres-larger than Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon combined. North Woods at Night: Literary Reflections on Maine's Largest Forest sends 38 writers into those woods after dark, returning with poems, stories, and essays that capture what the wilderness does to the human imagination when the lights go out.

Campfires and loons. A moose appearing at the edge of headlights. The particular silence of a frozen lake at midnight...