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Deadline

Sep 22, 2023

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"An annual journal of creative writing on environmental justice."

"An annual journal of creative writing on environmental justice."

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Send us your best but less intimidating

Response Time

one to six months / 101 days

Acceptance Rate

0%

  • Payment

    Yes: see Genres section for details

  • Fee

    No

  • Simultaneous submissions

    Yes

  • Previously published

    Yes

  • Expedited response

    No

  • Available in print

    Yes

  • Provides contributor copies

    No

  • Examples online

    Yes

  • Active on social media

    Yes

Accepted genres

5 genres

Fiction

Max words: 20000

Max pieces: 1

The fiction we publish is mostly, but not exclusively, speculative. We appreciate surreal and experimental pieces as well as strong plotting...

Nonfiction

Max words: 20000

Max pieces: 1

The essays we publish tend to be more creative than journalistic; we like at least a bit of narrative with our information.

Poetry

Min pieces: 3

Max pieces: 5

3-5 poems or 10 pages. Our interests in poetry tend towards the narrative, preferably with some thematic heft. We’re open to long poems, sho...

Translation

Max words: 20000

Max pieces: 1

We’re currently open to considering writing in Spanish, French or Swedish for potential translation. For work already translated into Englis...

Art

We’re interested in the surreal, subversive and political, not so much in the pulpy or abstract. We prefer a certain amount of directness: i...

Fiction

Max words: 20000

Max pieces: 1

The fiction we publish is mostly, but not exclusively, speculative. We appreciate surreal and experimental pieces as well as strong plotting...

Nonfiction

Max words: 20000

Max pieces: 1

The essays we publish tend to be more creative than journalistic; we like at least a bit of narrative with our information.

Poetry

Min pieces: 3

Max pieces: 5

3-5 poems or 10 pages. Our interests in poetry tend towards the narrative, preferably with some thematic heft. We’re open to long poems, sho...

Translation

Max words: 20000

Max pieces: 1

We’re currently open to considering writing in Spanish, French or Swedish for potential translation. For work already translated into Englis...

Art

We’re interested in the surreal, subversive and political, not so much in the pulpy or abstract. We prefer a certain amount of directness: i...

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Track submission

10

Total submissions tracked

101 days

Average response time

0%

Average acceptance rate

35 days

Fastest response time

167 days

Slowest response time

How to submit

Process

We use Moksha.

Cover letters

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Eligibility

No specific eligibility requirements

Formatting

Poems should be combined in a single document.

Rights for published work

This magazine does not list any details on their website for this section.

Additional info

Query for reprints. Multiple submissions are discouraged, except for poetry. We are always seeking work from Indigenous writers and artists, writers and artists of color, 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. And we’re seeking new ways to reach all of the above.

About the Magazine

Founded in 2016 | United States

Reckoning: an imperfect means of navigation by which one determines where they’re going using only where they’ve been. Reckoning: a settling of scores; justice. Environmental justice: the notion that the people (and other living things) saddled with the consequences of humanity’s poor environmental choices and the imperative to remedy those choices are not the ones responsible for them. Reckoning: a nonprofit, annual journal of creative writing on environmental justice.

Masthead

We currently list only main editors, more will be added later! If you are an editor, you can edit your masthead in our admin panel :)

Cécile Cristofari

Editor-in-Chief

Examples

1 pieces from Chill Subs people