Submissions for Reckoning X are closed as of 11:59PM Sept 22nd, 2025. Thank you to everyone who submitted! Look for an update in 2026, but for now, we remain open ONLY to reviews and critical essays for online publication. reckoning.press/submit/

happy fall may leaves not be the only thing

sorry it doesn't look like work to you -- who are you, again?

the lilies of the field are doing _plenty_, thank you very much.

The submission window for Reckoning X closes at the end of tomorrow! Now paying 15c/wd for prose, $75/page for poetry and art! Please submit? reckoning.press/general-subm...

This has got me imagining the Ents as pylons

Strange Horizons published our first issue 25 years ago this month! 🎉 Thank you to everyone who has ever read, shared, submitted, donated! We wouldn't be here without you and we hope you'll continue to support us into the future!

3 days remain in which to submit your work for Reckoning X! Now paying 15c/wd for prose, $75/page for poetry and art!

a canceled streaming subscription is easily converted to several spec fic magazine subs on patreon and similar services, some are as low as 1-2 bucks. the more you know.

Not Reckoning. You don’t need to spend your boycotting evil money on us, everything’s free to read online. I mean, you can! reckoning.press/support-us/ We’d love it and be grateful and use it well. But we’ll be fine. We just got a grant. Donate it to Gaza relief or spend it on the worthy folks below

Yarrow, red clover, snakeroot, bee balm

I could NOT be more excited for a sequel. FRIENDS you have just enough time to order @boriscrito.bsky.social EG Condé's Sordidez from @stelliform.press. You won't be **ready for this greatness, but you can at least prepare.

Leah Andelsmith's Reckoning 8 story "Within the Seed Lives the Fruit", a heartwrenching story about living with the land, is up for a WSFA Small Press Award this weekend, so I'll be at @capclave.bsky.social in DC, representing @reckoningmag.bsky.social: capclave.org/capclave25/

I'm really looking forward to reading this book! So many writers I admire have essays in it, and I can't wait to read their wisdom about how to deal with *gestures broadly at everything* and keep going. ❤️

When I share news of something terrible, here & in person, I try to *also* share a way to reduce its impact, build an alternative &/or stymie its causes. This is a practice for me, creating mental grooves of agency rather than helplessness & an offering for whoever I'm talking with: they too can act

Here is a list of mutual aid resources (& the people who maintain them, if you want to join in) around the Twin Cities if you think that everyone should be able to eat & get clean & live w/dignity tcmap.org/resources/

Big name Democrats need to rebut, in stern and strong terms, the bogus pretext Republicans are using to drum up violence against the left. They need to do it now, loudly and repeatedly.

We got a grant from Accelerate Resilience LA for 2026!!! We'll have news about what we'll do with it in the new year, but for now: Reckoning's payrate increases as of today to 15c/wd, $75/page for poetry and art! Reckoning X closes Sept 22nd, get your subs in now! reckoning.press/arla-grant-2...

Support climate justice organizers traveling from southern Mexico to Brazil for COP30! "We respond to the war on life by uniting struggles, raising a collective voice and traveling together for climate justice and debt cancellation, but we can't do it without you." chuffed.org/project/cara...

Anyway, if you feel like you need a dose of #solarpunk to fight the hopelessness demon, here you go (free to read online from the wonderful folks at @reckoningmag.bsky.social): reckoning.press/its-in-the-b...

The Smart Search List of the Day is: Fee-Free Science Fiction Short Stories feat. @interzone.press @reckoningmag.bsky.social @penumbricmag.bsky.social et al. https://duotrope.com...

My only excuse for missing @locusmag.bsky.social's review featuring @slharris.bsky.social "The Pelican in its Piety," Jacqueline Roberti's "New Niches," & E.L. Mellor's "Blue Speck" is I've spent the summer on a very cool @reckoningmag.bsky.social project (more to come) locusmag.com/2025/05/flas...

New flash fiction online today @reckoningmag.bsky.social ! “To Plant an Oak in Sand” is about rewilding a lawn. Which you should most certainly consider if you have one. Also…feelings. And oak trees 🌳 #solarpunk, maybe? Certainly #climatefiction reckoning.press/to-plant-an-...

If I'm not mistaken, and not for no reason!, this is the second issue of @reckoningmag.bsky.social which has closed with words from @tkrex.bsky.social

Speaking of killer first sentences. "Arthur Corey owns a small house in Port Charlotte, Florida. It’s bright lemon yellow, with a lawn he’s trying to kill, and a carport with no car, where a glass table gathers bong ash in the shade of seagrapes." reckoning.press/to-plant-an-...

Free to read today at @reckoningmag.bsky.social : new short work by the inimitable @tkrex.bsky.social

"it fits a tech industry playbook to grow a business first and later pay a relatively small fine...for breaking the rules...Anthropic (is valued) at $183 billion." It's what I suspected: Anthropic did the maths on how many authors have registered copyright (only 500k out of the 7M titles stolen)

Make your art. Even if it's not directly super gay rainbow chalk (but it *could* be super gay rainbow chalk and that would be most excellent), make your art. Including the art of words. Fascists hate that shit.

New today from Reckoning 9--only one left after this!--"Seeded, home", an SF poem by August Cao recollecting grocery store abundance, once taken for granted, from aboard a generation ship. "The next apple I eat I shall swallow." reckoning.press/seeded-home/

imagine being so maniacally racist that you side with the fire over the firefighter

When patrons see things like this, social media is good and contacting the library directly is even better. Do both! Write to the directors of the branch and the system. And if you can, stop by the library to talk to Circ/Ref/Info desk staff, or at the very least call. Direct communication is vital.

The print edition is really satisfying to hold in your hand, and features beautiful unsettling cover art, "Open Chest," by @dntlz.bsky.social. You can order here if you want your own copy! reckoning.press/reckoning-9/

I remain so proud of how this issue turned out. If you haven't gotten your copy, you'll soon be able to read the entire issue for free on our website.

Only 2 pieces to go in our 2025 issue, Reckoning 9, edited by @cgaubrey.bsky.social, @priyachand.bsky.social, and @martin65.bsky.social! Subscribe to get them free in your email: reckoning.press/subscribe/ See the full ToC and get the print edition here: reckoning.press/reckoning-9/

New today, as we close in on the end of Reckoning 9, "New Niches" by Jackie Roberti, a story about activist burnout and unexpected ecological safe-havens: reckoning.press/new-niches/

IT'S IN THE BLOOD was written to channel my anxieties (let's be honest, that's a bunch of my work) but I was determined to make it #solarpunk, and the result still has that restorative effect. And this one's a little more radical 🫡 reckoning.press/its-in-the-b... in @reckoningmag.bsky.social

An update for our American friends re: shipping books from Canada to the US. We really held out as long as we could on this decision, hoping that logic and neighbourliness would prevail. We did a ton of research into trade agreement compliance, and other shipping options. We hope you understand.

"And so the boxes of the cremated remains of people who have died crossing the desert, known and unknown, pile up in a room in a building near the air force base in the south of Tucson." Marianna Ariel ColesCurtis, "A Haunting in Future Perfect Tense" from issue 9 of @reckoningmag.bsky.social

Lovely piece.

New today from Reckoning 9, “Before Times Shells & Gifts” by @lauramcknight.bsky.social, a quiet story about tideflat salvage, species loss and the imaginative work of growing up: reckoning.press/before-times...

FFer Read of the Day: "A Taxonomy of Extinct and Extant Birds of the Twenty-First Century" by @andtatcat.bsky.social in @reckoningmag.bsky.social reckoning.press/a-taxonomy-o...

The Smart Search List of the Day is: General Literary Short Stories feat. @pacificalit.bsky.social @reckoningmag.bsky.social @mergansermagazine.bsky.social @januaryhouselit.bsky.social et al. https://duotrope.com...

!! Author copies! 🖤🐕🧙🏼‍♀️ Alas that I didn’t have these at Readercon, but will be hauling them with me elsewhere.

A reminder that @reckoningmag.bsky.social has audio and you can subscribe if interested — for stories, discussions, and more! reckoning.press/category/for...

New today from Reckoning 9, two photos by D. Arifah depicting the under-appreciated, essential work of providing food and water in urban Indonesia: reckoning.press/author/darif...

ICYMI, @locusmag.bsky.social reported the 2025 WSFA Small Press Award finalists, and Leah Andelsmith's "Within the Seed Lives the Fruit" from Reckoning 8 is among them, alongside work by Reckoning contributors @ideofmarch.bsky.social and @marissalingen.bsky.social! locusmag.com/2025/08/2025...

🚀🤯 Thrilled to announce my nuclear test site tourism story “A Slightly Different Sunrise from Mercury, Nevada” in @strangehorizons.bsky.social has been nominated for a WSFA Small Press award! The WSFA is one of the oldest existing science fiction clubs in the U.S. (est. 1947). So honored! 🩵 #scifi