Reckoning

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Artwork by Daphne Fauber, "Creation", featuring a blue-eyed alligator with a human hand emerging from its throat to touch another extended human finger in a reference to "The Creation of Adam", with sparrows on the wing and a radial pattern in the background

New from Reckoning X: @daphne-fauber.bsky.social's alligator-eating-Adam artwork "Creation" will appear as full-color endpapers in the print edition (which is up for preorder), but you get to see it now: reckoning.press/endpaper-cre...

A common note I'll see on manuscripts is "I don't know what this word means."

I hate that note. If the definition pops up in the first search result, that's a reader problem not a writer problem.

For me, and this book, that word was "ruderal."

BSFA LONGLIST 2026 announcement: Rebecca Campbell’s “Wider Than the Sky, Deeper Than the Sea” (The Other Shore) in Best Short Fiction and Syr Hayati Beker’s What a Fish Looks Like in Best Shorter Fiction.

Two Stelliform titles made the absolutely stacked BSFA Longlist! Rebecca Campbell’s “Wider Than the Sky, Deeper Than the Sea” (The Other Shore) is nominated in Best Short Fiction and Syr Hayati Beker’s What a Fish Looks Like in Best Shorter Fiction.

See the full list here: www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-...

Preorder THE WILDCRAFT DRONES, where T.K. Rex imagines the co-evolution of AI, climate collapse and rewilding in fourteen bold stories http://www.stellifor...

I don't quite know what to do with the information of the brilliance that is @redfernjon.bsky.social engaging so incisively with my book in @reckoningmag.bsky.social . I may never get over it. I am so very honored. Thank you, and thank you always @stelliform.press, now excuse me so I can go (!!!!)

"Of all the books I’ve had the opportunity to review, 'What a Fish Looks Like' is one of my absolute favourites."

When a reviewer as thoughtful and cogent as @redfernjon.bsky.social writes that, I pay attention.

Check out the review we just published of @syr.bsky.social's debut novella!

novella-length? hellazpoppin'!

I’m sharing this video again because people don’t really get what these data centers and ai are doing to our planet and our communities. Especially Black communities because they were strategically placed there.

I need you to listen to these people.
STOP USING AI. STOP SUPPORTING AI.

I loved this queer speculative retelling of fairy tales! Check my review of Syr Hayati Beker's novel over at Reckoning! 📚🌈

Friends, go write the books that will be the change.

Cover art for WHAT A FISH LOOKS LIKE by Syr Hayati Beker, featuring a mermaid embracing a fish with human legs.

New today, @redfernjon.bsky.social reviews @syr.bsky.social's @stelliform.press "novella in fairytale retellings", What a Fish Looks Like: reckoning.press/review-what-...

hear ye, hear ye!

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a reminder that I’m on the Reckoning team and if you send us a novella and if we decide to publish it there’s a chance I’ll be the one to edit it. an even higher chance if it’s queer, weird, and obsessed with birds, snails, moss, or other cool shit. no promises of course! but it could happen 👀👀👀

Our 10-year-old journal of creative writing on environmental justice will reopen to submissions, including poetry, creative nonfiction, art, short stories AND novella-length fiction, on February 1st.

2026 Fiction Submissions Strange Horizons Open Now

Fiction submissions are open now!

The window will be open until January 21st 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC.

For additional information about submitting including our Moksha link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...

I have a story in this!

Very into this convergence at Dog Eared Books in San Francisco🦋

@reckoningmag.bsky.social

Reckoning X is here! And I have a story in it.

So grateful to have this particular story, about an oddball psychogeographic investigator who listens to birds as much as people, in this particular magazine.

Cover art for Reckoning X by Moníca Robles Corzo, featuring a fish, a human, a snake, some mushrooms, and the tail of a fox in a semicircle surrounded by curlicues representing communication, with a big black X in the middle, against a white background.

The tenth annual issue of @reckoningmag.bsky.social is here and on its way to subscribers! weightlessbooks.com/reckoning-x/

It's here! And it's so beautiful, y'all!

To which end thank you very much for playing with me, @cgaubrey.bsky.social @priyachand.bsky.social @andrewkozma.net @chideraoffor.bsky.social @bernie-jsyk.bsky.social @martin65.bsky.social Hope Joseph @ellisnyeland.bsky.social @ruthjoffre.bsky.social

I'll have ample opportunity to exclaim later about all the amazing stuff here, but for now: Reckoning staff did an "exquisite corpse"--that storytelling game that's like telephone for creative writers? And it is far and away the best I've ever been involved in reckoning.press/editorial-be...

loved loved loved working on this one. some of my favorite writing that i’ve read for Reckoning 🍄 check it out!

Beautiful design there :)

A huge thank you to everyone who submitted, to Reckoning's brilliant and hardworking staff, all our Patreon supporters, boosters, and subscribers, and to Accelerate Resilience LA (ARLA) for their support: acceleratela.org

It's a beautiful, profound, compelling issue, and you all made it happen.