The big news I have been murmuring about here and there on social media and elsewhere these past few weeks is finally ready for primetime: Reckoning Press has been awarded a substantial grant from Accelerate Resilience LA!
This generous and largely unlooked-for infusion of support means a lot to us—it feels like a validation of everything we’ve been doing here for the past eight years—but also, it’s going to mean some changes for you, intrepid reader, supporter, aspiring contributor to Reckoning.
First: for the duration of the grant (which is one year starting this month and ending July 31, 2025), we’re paying everybody 50% more for everything. That’s 15 cents per word for prose, $75 per page for poetry and art, $100 for reviews, AND our staff honoraria also increase accordingly across the board. I am super happy about this. Everybody deserves more money.
Second: we get to do another special issue! This issue has as yet neither a title nor editors, but what we can tell you with fair confidence is that it will open to submissions early in the new year (simultaneously with the open-themed Reckoning X) for release in October 2025, it will once again have a kickass Maya monster cover thanks to Mónica Robles Corzo, and it will be about war. Yes, war, and also about conflict, and the environmental and environmental justice consequences of both. The horrific genocide currently being perpetrated in Gaza, which politicians and media commentators insist on calling a war, is very much on our minds. So is what’s happening in Ukraine, Ethiopia, and Yemen, but also things like the situation along the US-Mexico border, the Uyghur genocide in China, and any situation anywhere in the world in which weapons of war are being employed to wreak destruction upon life.
More details about the above will be forthcoming soon; this note is intended merely as a celebratory toot upon the conch and an encouragement to get the creative wheels turning.
