Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I: The Writer as Naturalist
Do We Have the Right to Write about Animals?
Animals that Work in Stories
A Case for More Reality in Writing for Animals
Part II: The Craft of Writing about Animals
Meeting the Wild Things Where They Are
Rewilding Literature: Catalyzing Compassion for Wild Predators through Creative Nonfiction
Rabies Bites: How Stephen King Made a Dog a Compelling Main Character
Real Advocacy within Fantasy Worlds
Writing Animals Where You Are
Part III: Anthropomorphism and Literature
Other Nations
Giving Animals a Voice: Letters from an Ashland Deer
No One Mourns an Unnamed Animal: Why Naming Animals Might Help Save Them
Part IV: Writers Change the World
Are You Willing?
With a Hope to Change Things: An Exploration of the Craft of Writing about Animals with the Founders
of Zoomorphic Magazine
Resources for Writers
