Fire Season III begins.
A kaleidoscopic record of the unprecedented.
The call for submissions is now open for our upcoming third issue, releasing in Summer 2024. We invite you to consider your own relationship to wildfire, and participate.
Collective sense-making on the topic of wildfires.
Gathering a diverse community to use visual art, poetry, writing, and essays to look at wildfires as a container for more complex and experiential topics like grief, climate change, loss, new growth, renewal, changing ideas of landscape, resilience, economy, and resource extraction. For those trying to grapple with the reality of a longer, more severe wildfire season, wherever it may be, we are here with you.
Where we began:
Fire Season was founded in 2019 by Liz Toohey-Wiese and Amory Abbott with the goal of publishing an artist book that explored the conceptual and existential symbolism of wildfires through visual art and writing. By bringing together creative minds to have a more diverse conversation on the topic, a collective understanding began to spread around the complex and often contradictory ways that wildfires impact our different lives, communities, and surroundings. The first Fire Season book sparked discussions into the ecological, industrial, historical, and psychological context of wildfire, and our newly released Fire Season II delves deeper into the encroaching experiences of it.
Donate to Fire Season
Fire Season is a volunteer publication and website supported by Amory and Liz with their time, skills, and funds, and relies on book sales, grant funding, and donations to thrive. If you’d like to help support the project, please consider donating at the link below. Your donation helps fund the research, editing, design, and publication of each book, and helps maintain the website and public outreach initiatives. Any contribution big or small is greatly appreciated!
Mt. Hood National Forest, structures being wrapped in fire-resistant foil during the Bull Complex Fire, 2021.