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/

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And when it comes, the racists who caused it will, once again, blame immigrants for the wreckage they themselves caused.

Now that Kirk's killer seems to be caught, maybe the news could spare a moment's attention for the right wing, from the commentariat up to the GOP and president, whose immediate reaction was not mourning, but to seize the opportunity to try to incite violence against groups they hate

i don’t think it’s good that democrats keep getting so juiced on conspiratorial disinfo while also unironically boasting conservative positions against protest & in support of corrupt, failing leadership i don’t think it’s good how intensely those bizarre voices demand to dominate the narrative now

My take-home message is that mainstream white America doesn’t think white supremacy makes him an awful person

The only foolproof way to avoid having autistic kids is TO NOT HAVE KIDS. If you’re that scared of having a child who is different, who has something “wrong” with them, you absolutely should not have kids. Ever.

Blaming something for a person being Autistic and using terms like “risk of Autism” also intrinsically conveys that our whole being is deemed an undesirable outcome by society …

Eating pizza while your hands smell of cloves that you're grinding for gingerbread cookies is a whole weird thing.

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...

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

Who records history after humans depart? Birds remember. Finch, Chickadee, Turkey, Crow... Here is our story, made theirs. Check out my avian mythos, "The Last Harvest," in Phano!

Let’s get ‘em. 💪🏽

Dear Southern Writers, The most overused word in your manuscript is probably "that." Sincerely, Another Southern Writer With That Same Problem

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.

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...

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...

Someone needs to explore the arranged/forced* marriage->HEA trope in romantasy as a manifestation of western women's growing anxieties towards dating/marriage uncertainy and violence in an increasingly misogynistic/fundamental political and social (?/varies) landscape. Not me, but I want to read it.

Reviewers: I'll soon be sending an email to @reckoningmag.bsky.social reviewers with a list of arcs we'd like reviewed. If you want in on this list, dm me your email address and clips. We publish reviews of books that center themes of environmental justice and we currently pay $75!

My first novel THE JAGUAR MASK came out a year ago this week from @stelliform.press. Among other things it’s a book about what it takes to acknowledge the brutal fascist repression in the room, turn into a jaguar, and start ripping some of it to shreds www.stelliform.press/index.php/pr...

Here is where we plant the cars in hopes something better will grow from their bodies.

“Trump’s name is in the Epstein Files but Kash Patel had FBI agents go through them and black out his name” is the kind of statement that will surely put out this fire

Severe Heat warning today. 1130 am and even with two large fans in a small space, I am having to quit the porch. Oxygen levels are not optimal, so I'm tired and cranky and definitely struggling today. I've accepted that I'm not drafting a short story this week that I really wanted to. 🫠 but sad.

Seasonal Affective Disorder is a hell of thing. I grew up in the south where "it's so hot I might die" was a real physical concern. Still living in the south but now "It's so hot I can't go outside enough and now I want to die" is ALSO a real mental health concern. Six (🤞) more weeks.

PLEASE REPOST, SPACE UNICORNS! The Uncanny Magazine Year 12: Fly Forever, Space Unicorns! Kickstarter is 75% funded! WE COULD FUND THIS WEEK!!! Let's make that happen! buff.ly/vgi5FXw

This is a personal favorite: a story about deconstructing and decolonizing the guilt, learned helplessness, & environmental apathy that so often come with fundamentalism. And there's a complicated kind of reconciliation, a deep well of bravery that I hope others find as sustaining as heartbreaking.

We’re postponing release of our special issue on war, conflict, and environmental justice, It Was Paradise, while we catch up after editor @soniasulaiman.bsky.social has had to step down: reckoning.press/postponing-r...

As you listen to this YouTube by @hcrichardson.bsky.social , think about what is happening NOW in our nation. The forces of tyranny are not across the seas. They are within our borders and our governments. youtu.be/gkFxD-CMlZM?...

Thread indeed

Thread about AI art in SF/F magazines and the assumption that authors have a ton of power to stop this. Many people in the genre saw this post from the editor of Interzone rightly taking Asimov's to task for using what appears to be a cover with AI art. 1/

okay but this is amazing.

If there is one lesson to draw from the history of fascism in the interwar period in Europe, it is this: Democracy falls if and when mainstream conservatives and centrist/center-right elites decide to make common cause with extremists because they consider the “radical Left” the more acute threat.

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"Every day it’s looking more and more like those who remember what it means to be human will have to give our bodies for the land and the faces that haven’t appeared yet."

July 1 Reckoning 9 officially comes out in print! Still time to preorder, or come by and get one from @martin65.bsky.social in person at @readercon.bsky.social in a couple weeks, or ask at your LBS (that’s local bookstore)! reckoning.press/reckoning-9/

And again, they were about 15-20 times as large as the April 2009 Tea Party protests, so I'll sit back and wait for 15-20 times as many stories from political pundits explaining that this was a decisive rebuke to the sitting president that Changes Everything.

New today from Reckoning 9, "Katrina", a poem in which Allison Whittenberg reminds us vividly that the old environmental injustices don't get erased by the new ones: reckoning.press/katrina/

political press is doing a real disservice by basically not reporting the nuances of public opinion on deportations, and creating the appearance that most americans support the stephen miller-style gestapo tactics

Also that thread may in fact be the most ridiculous thing I've ever posted and my only real regret is that I didn't have butt cheek gifs. This is what happens when your brain regresses to ten years old but you still have all your philosophizing tendencies. 😂

We just had the privilege of hosting our ten y/o nibling for a week of fun. We finished painting the guestroom (aka the nibling’s room), made a wreath for their door, did numerous arts, crafts, cooking, & educational activities. We also laughed at a lot of butt cheeks. This is important. 🧵/7

The submission window for our special issue on environmental justice amid war and conflict, IT WAS PARADISE, edited by @soniasulaiman.bsky.social, closes this month, June 22nd!

I'd like to share with y'all a project I've poured my heart and soul into over the last couple of years: a database cataloguing every single older (pre-21st century) LGBT science fiction book I've managed to track down - currently just over 200 titles 🚀 LINK: tinyurl.com/oldgaySF

Had so few spoons this week that I didn't have the spoons to explain what "I am low on spoons" meant to my nonspoonie friend. He "had to google it" and "learned something new!" At which point I realized I might have a few more spoons if I stopped trying to make me easier on everyone else.

The problem with Untitled Goose Game is that you spend your first hour as a Horrible Goose happily flapping your wings and honking at everything. Only for it to turn out that to be a Successful Horrible Goose you sometimes have to be quiet and unflapping. And yet the muscles, well, they have memory.

the amount of people I know who don't even remember that government exists to make their lives better...just, damn, idk how I'm supposed to respect the big media outlets any longer

Due to deferred chores and errands, I had to take today off from my passion projects and, dear readers, I did not expect it to be as much of a struggle as it was. Apparently work/life balance is important even when you're fortunate enough to do something you find inspiring and fulfilling. New WIP. 🙃

New today from Reckoning 9, Offor Chidera's poem "The Government Will Pay For Your Funeral" fairly fizzes with sensory juxtapositions evoking visceral grief. Not easy, but incredibly rich and rewarding: reckoning.press/the-governme...

Andrew's eerily soothing performance here somehow amplifies the already surreally dissociative effect this story has on me. Humans: we emerge out of nature, we are nature, we wreck nature, we strive to defend and save nature, we fail, we pour ourselves back into the toxic muck and start again

I am SO PLEASED to see "Rachel is at a Protest" by Esther Alter on this list, because IT IS WORTHY and seems to have bypassed so many readers. *screams*

When learning something, one of the most important resources is a person who will tell you "no, you are wrong, you are not making sense, what you are saying is meaningless," to keep you from going further and further wrong without knowing it. Chatgpt tells you what you want to hear.