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Fiction and poetry for the 21st century

[Leer en Español] We're currently reading for Reckoning 11, which will close to submissions August 31st, 2026. There are never any fees to submit. We pay SFWA-qualifying "professional" rates upon acce...

Carried like wreckage on restless currents, a hushed syllable of scales and fear adrift on brown water. But a stranger’s hands became a shore: gathered him whole. The flood itself seemed to bless the ...

Hello, lovely Patreon members! We've had a very busy Spring and Summer here at Reckoning, so here's a quick summary of events, with links fo

It may take a decade or longer to train a human clinician, but it took a team of Ministry of Health technicians only seven days to certify me a Clinically Adept Machine Sentience (CAMS) and hand me co...

I watched the clip again: the lifeless body of a white-winged dove entered the shot at the top of my screen and plummeted off the bottom a half second later. Whoever was holding the camera didn’t noti...

creative writing on environmental justice

Milkweed Editions is a nonprofit publisher of literature for adults and young adults based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

My uncle swears you can tell what kind of man someone is by how he stacks wood in a burn barrel. We don’t use those anymore but he still talks like they matter. Still keeps one in the back, rusted and...

My uncle swears you can tell what kind of man someone is by how he stacks wood in a burn barrel. We don’t use those anymore but he still talks like they matter. Still keeps one in the back, rusted and...

Mississippi flows carries secrets in silt the bronze serpent’s scales Cicada static rasps against the high noon sun Trilobite locked in the bluff’s ancestral stone silence Oil refinery flare stains th...

Going from Kyiv to my mother’s native land, a village in the Cherkasy region, we used to take a road that ran like a thin ribbon across the endless dark blue water body. I have always been fascinated ...