Reckoning

Today @reckoningmag.bsky.social read a submission from a marginalized writer we've never seen work from. We think they massaged their English with an LLM. But we're not outright banning them; we're asking for an LLM-less rewrite. I am so happy and proud of our staff's capacity to percieve nuance

Submissions for our weird environmental justice flash fiction special issue close on Halloween! Still time to write something to blow @andrewkozma.net's mind....

Wildcraft Drones by T.K. Rex from the always impressive @stelliform.press Short stories spanning centuries telling the story of humanity shaped by climate crisis and the rise of an AI network of drones that decides to rewild the earth for our own good.

This issue features our latest Rotting Leaf 🍂 Dry Season, by @jamesparenti.bsky.social 👇

Set in a near-future York and the Pennines of the Bronze Age, Parch Marks sees Eva Sinclair, archaeologist turned TV presenter, excavate a mysterious massacre site amidst the political instability of a climate ravaged Britain. www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p... Pumpkin by @motiblackart.bsky.social

Now with alt text! Registration is open (and free!) for me and @priyachand.bsky.social's class on what we learned dealing with AI @reckoningmag.bsky.social submissions at the Sojourner Truth School Dec 1: truthschool.org/event/an-a-i... I swear I did not tell them to put Daryl Hannah on the flyer

Registration is open (and free!) for me and @priyachand.bsky.social's class on what we learned dealing with AI @reckoningmag.bsky.social submissions at the Sojourner Truth School in December: truthschool.org/event/an-a-i... I swear I did not tell them to put Daryl Hannah on the flyer

This week we're looking poetry from Holly Lyn Walrath! And we're taking a look at all the cool stuff at Interstellar Flight Press! @hollylynwalrath.bsky.social @interstellarflight.bsky.social

Next up is "Climate Change Is a Poem" in @reckoningmag.bsky.social ! @hollylynwalrath.bsky.social

Less of an order form and more of an application to have your freakin mind blown man But yeah it’s amazing www.stelliform.press/index.php/pr...

Drawtober • Day 15

from "The Disturbed Land: The Effects of Coal Mining upon the Human and Natural Ecology of the Appalachian Region" — Arthur Tress, 1968

What's some cool literature (i.e. fiction!) in either post-colonial, indigenous, or afro-futurist traditions that engage either with apocalypses or the climate crisis?

Also check out @nicasio.bsky.social & @vajra.me 's back catalogs. And there's lots of good stuff in @reckoningmag.bsky.social

I can't stop talking about AI submissions. I want to, but I can't; it's too important. So I've had to write up this blog post of forthcoming appearances--including a virtual @sfwa.bsky.social event tomorrow at 1pm PCT featuring CL Moore of @bonabooks.bsky.social: mossyskull.com/technomancy/...

Good list right here! Even if you don't have $ I think it is good to know how much is going on, all the time

Jaime Zapata, Ecuadorian (1957- ), El encuentro (The Meeting), 1992, oil on canvas

Good morning 🪶

Many deep, interconnected threads going on right now about the business of short fiction contracts from some very smart and generous folks. It's a great day to be an up-and-coming writer

gregor samsa awoke one morning to discover he had been transformed into a sickass beetle. fuck yeah he said scuttling all over the walls and ceiling like no dumbfuck traveling salesman could ever do. this is the best day of my life he said

Publisher @michaeljdeluca.bsky.social will represent Reckoning at this SFWA event on AI submissions next Tuesday! Please join us to learn how editors are dealing with this dire new threat to human creativity and how it's impacting writers who want to sell their work.

With scam artists empowered by LLMs, writers and editors have common cause to worry about submissions. That's why Emerging Tech is gathering @bonabooks.bsky.social, @reckoningmag.bsky.social, & SFWA Publications for I SWEAR I'M NOT A ROBOT Tues, Oct 13 at 1pm PT. RSVP today! sfwa.org/events/?even...

4. 'Sturgeon Baby' by Sophie Fink in @reckoningmag.bsky.social An inventive concrete poem that's a beautiful exploration of time. Worth reading online and reading aloud; the well-placed line breaks do so much to highlight the poem’s meaning as well as its shape. reckoning.press/sturgeon-baby/

Whenever I teach settler colonialism, which is often, I always emphasize the point that it is still going on.

Fellow Texans, check your registration and/or register to vote!

Our community needs to do better.

The Smart Search List of the Day is: Paying Fee-Free Literary Fiction feat. @reckoningmag.bsky.social @thesunlightpress.bsky.social @claudineliterary.bsky.social @neonandsmoke.bsky.social et al. https://duotrope.com...

Fellow @reckoningmag.bsky.social editor @priyachand.bsky.social and I are giving a virtual class 12/1, using what we learned adapting to AI submissions, for the Sojourner Truth School: An "A.I." Primer for Not-So-Technically-Inclined Activists. It's FREE to register: truthschool.org/event/an-a-i...

And I want prospective novella submitters at @reckoningmag.bsky.social to read it too! reckoning.press/submit/novel...

NEW CALLOUT ALERT! We are seeking Indonesian speculative fiction in Bahasa Indonesia and English for publication in khōréō’s Volume 7 in 2027. The callout is open from now until November 5, 2026, details on our website: www.khoreomag.com/submissions-...

“I try to banish it from my brain, these dreams where I am bulbous & beautiful. where I am the butternut & she is the squash bug, burrowed into my bosom, my bowels, the base of my spine. her vine.” Beautiful.

My ecological sci-fi horror about fake worms rehabilitating the soil and rich people trying to avoid a poisoned Earth is now up on Phano.

Today's small act of planting radical seeds: printed out zines by @tangledwilderness.bsky.social and @cbmilstein.bsky.social and put them in a few Little Free Libraries while walking a dog!

Author and environmental activist Wendell Berry passed away yesterday. We'd like to honor his work by remembering the poem "The Peace of Wild Things"

End of day today!