Time for Reckoning

Reckoning is an annual US-based print journal of creative writing on environmental justice. It is published by Michael J DeLuca and edited by

Octavia Cade (fiction), Priya Chad (non-fiction) and Tim Fab-Eme (poetry). The editorial team are currently reading for issue 7, which has a theme of Oceans, with a deadline of 22 September. They note the fiction they publish is mostly, but not exclusively, speculative; the non-fiction is more creative than journalistic, the poetry tends towards the narrative, preferably with some thematic heft.

The heart of what they want is your personal, visceral, idiosyncratic understanding of the world and the people in it as it has been, as it is, as it will be, as it could be, as a consequence of humanity’s relationship with the earth. Submissions must address both environmental concerns and those of justice, hence the title Reckoning: a settling of scores.

The editors are always seeking work from indigenous writers and artists, writers and artists of colour, queer and trans writers and artists, and anyone who has suffered the consequences, intended or otherwise, of dominant society’s systemic disconnect with and mistreatment of the natural world. They would like to publish more work in translation, and can currently consider writing in Spanish, French or Swedish. For work already translated they pay the same rate to the author and translator.

No ecofascism or prejudice in any form. Here’s a list of other things the editors don’t want to see: https://reckoning.press/submit/what-doesnt-workfor-us/

Simultaneous submissions are okay, but notify right away if accepted elsewhere. No multiple submissions except for poetry. You can submit

3-5 poems, or ten pages, whichever is shorter, combined in a single document. Enquire for reprints or anything longer than 20,000 words:

reckoningmagazine@gmail.com

Payment is 8¢ per word for prose, $30 per page for poetry. Full guidelines at https://reckoning.press/submit/ Submit your work via the submission engine at https://reckoning.moksha.io/publication/reckoning

• Reckoning has just announced a special online only issue in response to the US Supreme Court overturning Roe Vs Wade to be called Our Beautiful Reward. The deadline is the end of August and you can find out more at

https://reckoning.press/special-submission-call-our-beautiful-reward/

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