This coming March—the 26th through 29th, to be specific—three members of Reckoning‘s editorial staff, Michael, Catherine, and Andrew, will be tabling at the Association of Writers & Writers’ Programs annual conference, thanks to our sponsors Accelerate Resilience LA. This is a first for us, and we are excited to introduce ourselves to a bunch of new writers!
I personally am somewhat less enthusiastic, say intrigued, maybe nervous, to experience Los Angeles in the aftermath of the wildfires currently raging there. I’m very much a denizen of the East Coast; this will be my first time setting foot in the state of California in some 30 years. I imagine I will learn a lot; I am prepared to disabused of some assumptions and humbled thereby. It feels eerie to be announcing this while the world watches LA burn. But the whys and wherefores and what-is-to-be-dones about this, and of the next horrific natural disaster engendered by by the anthropogenic climate crisis, and the one after that, are very much the reason we want to be there.
We’ll also be participating in a solarpunk-themed reading, organized for us by ARLA and featuring some of the publishers of Solarpunk Magazine and Android Press, on the Thursday evening of AWP, March 27th, at Art Share LA, this cool-looking art/event space, which I sure hope is still there in 3 months:
This brings me to the “call to action” portion of this message. ARLA‘s support has been amazing for Reckoning; they’ve enabled us to pay better and me to relax significantly about fundraising, a huge relief here in 2025 when I’d rather people be donating a thousand other places. I would love to be able to show our appreciation by packing that venue. So please: if you’re planning on being at AWP or around LA in late March this year, may we send you a personal invitation? Feel free to email or comment here or @ us to let us know?
Thank you so much!
