...and then you have space to talk about the revolution, plan the revolution, **be the revolution.** Mamdani is incredibly helpful as an example of what that looks like but that's the entire thing: it's a failure of imagination, so the revolution is also imagination. 13/n

If you like this one, get excited because there’s a whole book of short stories set in this #solarpunk future coming out in May from @stelliform.press 💚🌿

This Wednesday in Madison! I get to read with one of my very favorite writers, B. Pladek, @bpladek.bsky.social, at @roomofonesownbooks.bsky.social!!!! We're having a queer/trans open mic! COME ON BY! I'll be reading from What A Fish Looks Like out now from @stelliform.press!

Originally published in OUR BEAUTIFUL REWARD, @reckoningmag.bsky.social's bodily autonomy issue, @mariness.bsky.social's "Green Leaves Against the Wind" considers the deep, personal cost of nurturing and the power of choice. I'm so pleased to include this piece in our #neurodivergent collection.

it continually blows my mind that @strangehorizons.bsky.social has been an open-access, diverse, international sff space for fiction, poetry, art, _and criticism_ for 25 years now -- and that they have a branch devoted to literature in translation. like: ! samovar.strangehorizons.com/issue/27-oct...

New from A CHORUS, DIVERGENT, our neurodiversity reprints issue edited by @cgaubrey.bsky.social, "Green Leaves Against the Wind", a poem by @mariness.bsky.social expressing the deep, physical interconnection between people and plants: reckoning.press/green-leaves...

We have to take care of each other.

“Day captures a violent contradiction at the heart of how humans decide what to domesticate and what to eradicate.” —Charles Payseur, Locus, April 2024 So happy to include this poem! You can pre-order your print copy of A CHORUS, DIVERGENT here: reckoning.press/a-chorus-div... (ships January 1st!)

Today in A CHORUS, DIVERGENT, our neurodiversity reprints issue edited by @cgaubrey.bsky.social: "50% Off Venus Fly Traps" by @kelseyday.bsky.social, a delightfully creepy poem about flesh-eating plants, the complexities of our love and expectations for weird nature reckoning.press/50-off-venus...

Listening to a billionaire about how to prevent climate breakdown is like listening to an arsonist about how to prevent fires.

Out of 206 nations, Jamaica ranks at 128th when it comes to CO2 emissions. 2.14 CO2 per capita (tons) 6,083,040 CO2 emissions (tons) Reference the US; 14.32 CO2 per capita (tons) 4,853,780,240 CO2 emissions (tons) Poor and developing countries are hit hardest by #climatechange. #Melissa

In light of the govt shutdown and SNAP getting cut for a ton of folks, I have had a fun idea for how to help. I call it "Operation Turkey Heist (legal)." Allow me to explain... A lot of grocery stories are doing a "free turkey with X dollar purchase" and food banks very much want those turkeys.

WI/Madison folks: come out to @roomofonesownbooks.bsky.social next Wed, Nov 5 at 6 pm to celebrate the magnificent new short story collection from @syr.bsky.social, WHAT A FISH LOOKS LIKE, out now with @stelliform.press! It includes an OPEN MIC, so come read! <3 roomofonesown.com/event/2025-1...

Today from A CHORUS, DIVERGENT, our neurodiverity reprints issue, "That Time My Grandfather Got Lost in the Translations of the Word ‘Death’" by @oluwasigma.bsky.social, an SF poem in which giant metal mechs stand for the resistance of language to the forces of empire reckoning.press/that-time-my...

Today from @reckoningmag.bsky.social #neurodivergentanthology A CHORUS, DIVERGENT is "A Taxonomy of Extinct and Extant Birds of the Twenty-First Century" by @andtatcat.bsky.social, a haunting meditation on personal loss and climate grief, and how we carry on. reckoning.press/a-taxonomy-o...

I love this story so much. Morris Hinkle creates a terrible, vivid, and amazing world, painting an entire society in such a short space, and the horrors that society enacts for the "good" of all.

New podcast episode for spooky season! Read by @andrewkozma.net and produced by audio editor Aaron Kling, “What It Means to Love a City” by Morris Hinkle is among the most horrific pieces of fiction we’ve published. It’s about not looking away. You’ve been warned reckoning.press/podcast-epis...

Just read the article and saw the photos and all I have to say is that there has to be a reckoning for this.

one day you will until then, the asphalt buckles with dandelions. until that day you will walk the dog, and brush your teeth and a fungus that eats radiation will grow in Chernobyl. -- @nemerevermore.bsky.social reckoning.press/p-t/

Today from @reckoningmag.bsky.social's #neurodivergent reprint collection A CHORUS, DIVERGENT, Micah Nemerever's powerfully evocative poem "P-T." "they will bring the villagers/past the barbed wire to see what/was done in their name, and some will cry/some will even mean it." reckoning.press/p-t/

@ellisnyeland.bsky.social's "The Last Great Repair Tech of the American Midwest" is a lovely remembrance of a life well lived, but it also a fortune told. "Repair Tech" warns us against the generational loss of practical knowledge, especially in uncertain times.

A new and improved version! (CG let me add a few words I accidentally left out in the original.)

Trump’s EPA canceled a $20m grant to fortify the Alaska Native village of Kipnuk against flooding. Now 121 houses in Kipnuk have been destroyed by flooding, & a total 1,800 people have been evacuated in one of the biggest airlifts in Alaska history. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Today from A CHORUS, DIVERGENT, our neurodiversity reprints issue, "The Last Great Repair Tech of the American Midwest" by @ellisnyeland.bsky.social is a fictional obituary celebrating a life well spent enacting restorative justice through the right to repair: reckoning.press/the-last-gre...

OK LISTEN. Every story in this book is a banger. This book has had me in tears multiple times. Highly likely this is going to be my favorite collection of the year. Get it now, thank me later!

I got a star.

But the conclusion some people draw from this — that individual actions don’t matter at all — is deeply flawed. There is no plausible pathway to meeting global climate goals without changing what we eat, how we travel and how we live, especially in high-income countries and among wealthier people.

ooooh this is a great debunking of that "fossil fuel companies are bad so why should I even lift a finger" nonsense

say hi to me this weekend at can*con please

At CanCon this weekend? Find us in the vendor room throughout the con, as well as at the Friday night publisher party, pitch sessions, and the "Publisher Red Flags" panel on Saturday. Don't miss Stelliform authors Geoffrey W. Cole, Mahaila Smith, and Lynn Hutchinson Lee on panels all weekend.

@lauramcknight.bsky.social's wonderfully meditative story "Before Times Shells and Gifts" speaks of what it means to sift through ruins, our own and those we may never fully understand. It also provides gentle, commiserating humor for those of us who have been told "please do not lick the science!"

even a single well-chosen turn of phrase can rewire your brain if it hits you at the right moment

Today from our neurodiversity reprints issue, A CHORUS, DIVERGENT, "Before Times Shells and Gifts" by @lauramcknight.bsky.social originally appeared in Reckoning 9. It's a story about loss, nostalgia, beach scavenging, and trying to move on: reckoning.press/before-times...

ANNOUNCEMENT🎺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Introducing our bona new quarterly literary magazine: FANTABULOSA! Pushing the boundaries of bold, authentic, QUEER storytelling. Bringing you stories of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical. & thanks to our brilliant #WrathMonth backers, we're fully funded for 2026 🤘

The trailblazing transgender rights activist Miss Major has passed away at the age of 78. Miss Major was a lifelong organizer and participant in the ballroom scene. She took part in the 1969 Stonewall Riots and was injured by the police — but she kept fighting.

"The whole world is a feast of runaway craving" is the opening line of this poem and IMO a very strong argument for why you need to read it today

Despite the unimaginable death toll of deforestation and pollution, Kaye Boesme's powerful work still offers reconciliation in the end, not merely as grace extended but in inevitability. There is hope, however fragile, to be found in such certainty.

"I suddenly remembered my Charlemagne: 'Let my armies be the frogs in the suits, and the nudes on the bikes.'"

Today in A CHORUS, DIVERGENT, Kaye Boesme's long, beautiful, classically erudite poem about cutting down trees, "After Erysichthon", which originally appeared in Reckoning 4: reckoning.press/after-erysic...

A new clause for our contract (thx to @bcsmagazine.bsky.social): "[author warrants] (iii) that the WORK contains no instance and its creation no usage whatsoever of “artificial intelligence” (AI), large language model (LLM), algorithmic, machine-learning, or computer-generated content of any sort"

I am once again asking you to read this essay by Amber Fox, published in @reckoningmag.bsky.social in 2022. reckoning.press/ghost-of-a-c...

One of the things about this study is that a lot of baby and toddler books are written in house, by editors. So the study reveals the whiteness of editorial in kidlit even if not explicitly. But, big picture, this trend is unacceptable. I remember so many promises www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

Remember the claim that we couldn't force a rush to renewables too soon, because it just wouldn't be fair to "developing nations" (i.e. the global majority world)? Welp, turns out they're willing and eager to get in on renewables, and are doing really, really well with them. So.

Thank you very much, new and long-time supporters! These are hard times for nonprofits. We're currently at 80% of our historic peak public support in 2022, and every little bit helps <3

You can find other ways to support @reckoningmag.bsky.social here: reckoning.press/support-us/ including Patreon, donations, and of course issue and merchandise purchases. Hopefully we'll have some new tshirts in time for the holiday gift-giving season. Thank you for your continued support. 🍄

It's my birthday! I would love if y'all could head over to @reckoningmag.bsky.social today, give them a follow, and maybe check out my recent editorial for A Chorus, Divergent (our special reprint collection of #neurodivergent contributors over the past ten years). reckoning.press/editorial/

From A Chorus, Divergent today: "The World Ended in Ice", a sharp point in few words first made by @adamstemple.bsky.social in 2018 in Reckoning 3: reckoning.press/the-world-en...

Adam's timely-as-ever poem "The World Ended in Ice" offers warning while encapsulating the frustrations of watching patterns of environmental destruction repeat across millenia. You can read it online today @reckoningmag.bsky.social reckoning.press/the-world-en...

Love community canning spaces so much for connecting with neighbors, learning how to preserve food, building culture, and addressing food insecurity.