creative writing on environmental justice
For Reckoning’s next special issue, we are asking for environmental justice flash fiction of 1000 words or less. While we’ll take 1-1200 words, we strongly prefer things in the 500-1000 range. Outside of flash, what we specifically want are weird stories, dark stories, horror stories . . . and yet stories with some bit of hope . . .
As she announced recently on social media, Sonia Sulaiman, guest editor for It Was Paradise, Reckoning’s forthcoming special issue on war, conflict, and environmental justice, has had to step down from that role due to circumstances beyond anybody’s control. We’re profusely grateful for her work on the issue. Our original intention . . .
For the milestone tenth issue of Reckoning, our sixth under fascist misrule, we’re practicing what we preach. Reckoning X will be edited collectively by our entire editorial staff, and it will be themed, broadly, around communication and the ways we communicate about environmental justice.
What brought us to this? How do those of us who grasp the direness . . .
************SUBMISSIONS FOR IT WAS PARADISE ARE NOW CLOSED. THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO SUBMITTED.************
It’s time to announce the call for submissions to It Was Paradise*, a special issue of Reckoning edited by Sonia Sulaiman and with cover art by Mónica Robles Corzo. In a world devastated by catastrophes, we need stories that confront these . . .
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 . . .
Reckoning 9 is open for general submissions! There is no specific theme for this issue; if your work concerns any aspect of environmental justice, from food sovereignty to ocean plastics to industrial cleanup to Indigenous rights, we want to see it. In fact, we look forward most eagerly to perspectives none of us has thought of. Please help us learn and understand. . . .
Reckoning 7 is officially out in print and shipping now! Preorders are already on their way. Get your copy here, or ask for it at your local indie bookstore or library. In case you haven’t been following along, it’s a profound, important issue, editors Tim Fab-Eme, Octavia Cade, and Priya Chand and all of us on staff and whose work appears within devoted . . .
We’re very excited to announce, for the forthcoming Reckoning 8, editors Knar Gavin and Waverly SM! Read on for their issue-specific submission call.
Reckoning is a journal of creative writing on environmental justice; we’re looking for fiction, creative nonfiction, essays, poetry and art.
For Reckoning 8, we want thinking, writing and art . . .
“…the name of our beautiful reward isn’t profit. Its name is freedom.” —Ursula K. Le Guin
The call for submissions for Our Beautiful Reward, a special online issue of Reckoning Magazine, is closed as of September 1, 2022.
The fall of Roe V Wade in the U.S. has codified dramatic restrictions on the right of pregnant individuals to make their . . .
Fela Kuti’s ‘Water No Get Enemy’ is one of my favorite songs about life, and it’s echoing in my head as I think about Reckoning 7. The Afrobeat maestro warns humans not to war with water, because we cook and wash with it, we drink it, and clean both the newborn and the dead with it. In other words, water is life; only those who want to die trouble it, and that’s exactly . . .