Editor-in-Chief H. Emerson Blake Paid circulation 17,000 First issue June 1982 | Frequency Bimonthly Total circulation
(2008) 25,000 | |
Categories nature, culture, environment | ||
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."