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 monumental efforts to it despite adversity, fire and flood, and we really hope you get a chance to appreciate these beautiful stories, poems, essays and art on the theme of oceans and the global water cycle. Thank you so much for the enthusiastic support that made this possible.
Reckoning 6 and Our Beautiful Reward are both up for a bunch of Utopia Awards! We got seven nominations total, even more than last year, including Rimi B. Chatterjee’s “A Question of Choice” and Amanda Ilozumba’s “Rainbow Boy” for novelette, Miriam Navarro Prieto’s “Nature’s Chosen Pronouns” and Francesca Gabriele Hurtado’s “Resilience” for poetry, Sofia Ezdina’s “Wildfire, Hellfire: the Case for Siberian Globeflowers” and Amber Fox’s “Ghost of a Chance: A Trans Girl Tries to Live” for nonfiction, and Zuzanna Kwicien’s badass cover art for Reckoning 6, “A Dream I Have”.
This is all phenomenal work and we are so proud! Congratulations, everybody!
There is lots of other amazing work nominated—the world of utopian writing is expanding, not a moment too soon, and it’s wonderful to see. Please go have a look at the full list, read and behold, and consider voting?
Finally, don’t forget that Reckoning 8, edited by SM Waverly and Knar Gavin, is open and accepting submissions now through the equinox on September 22nd. We are actively reading and accepting work on the theme of activism and resistance—a bunch of amazing pieces we are super excited about just in the past few weeks. Thanks to a successful fundraiser last summer, we’ve raised pay rates all around, to 10 cents a word for prose, $50 per page for poetry and interior art, and as always we are eagerly seeking new work from queer, trans, disabled, Indigenous, Black, brown, and otherwise marginalized writers, poets and artists.
