Reckoning 7 Out in Print! Reckoning Nominated for 7 Utopia Awards!

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 . . .

Podcast Episode 28: What Good Is a Sad Backhoe?

Welcome back to the Reckoning Press Podcast! We surface briefly from hiatus to bring you the last piece of fiction from Reckoning 6, Luke Elliott’s “What Good is a Sad Backhoe?”, read by the author. This is one of the most relentlessly hopeful-in-the-face-of-everything stories in the issue. We are all going to need . . .

Podcast Episode 27: A Song Born

Hey, yes, it’s me, Michael J. DeLuca, and today on the Reckoning podcast I will be reading you what turns out to be the last of our Utopia Award nominees that will appear here, Remi Skytterstad’s novelette about the colonization of the Sami people of Norway, “A Song Born”. We had six nominations total, but . . .

Podcast Episode 26: All We Have Left Is Ourselves

Welcome back to the Reckoning Press Podcast. Today, I, Michael J. DeLuca, am going to read you Oyedotun Damilola Muees’ PEN Robert J. Dau Prize Winning and Utopia-nominated story, “All We Have Left Is Ourselves” from Reckoning 5. I going to need to ask you to bear with me. This heartbreaking . . .

Podcast Episode 24: On the Destruction and Restoration of Habitats

Hi, it’s me, your nominal host, Michael J. DeLuca. Today on the Reckoning Press podcast we have for you Reckoning 7 nonfiction editor Priya Chand introducing and reading her Utopia-nominated essay, “On the Destruction and Restoration of Habitats”. This is the first in a series of . . .