Reckoning: Communication
Reckoning magazine publishes work on environmental justice. They’re reading submissions broadly around the Communication theme, for their 10th issue. “What brought us to this? How do those of us who grasp the direness of our situation—as a species, as a global community—convey or fail to convey that to others? These are dauntingly complex questions, and it’s clear the familiar solutions fall catastrophically short. Show us new answers, new framings. Reach for the weird tools, the neglected ones. Show us how journalism should work. Tell us stories about stories. Illuminate the economic structures behind our educational institutions and the walls against understanding that dog our international borders. Interpret the data for us, then interpret the interpreters. Let’s crack open the ways knowledge is produced and spread amid late-stage capitalism.
We’re seeking art, poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction … in particular from Indigenous, Black, Brown, queer, trans, disabled, neurodivergent and/or otherwise marginalized writers and artists from everywhere.” Length guidelines are up to 15,000 words for prose, up to 10 pages for poetry. They pay $0.10/word for prose, and $50/poem. The submission deadline is 22 September 2025. Details here and here.

Deadline: September 22nd, 2025