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 acceptance; click below to see how much for
different kinds of work. Response time has ranged from one to six months
and is slowest October through January, when we’re putting together a
new issue and editors for the following issue have not been chosen.
What we’re looking for: creative writing and art about environmental justice.
We are always seeking work from Indigenous writers and artists, racialized
writers and artists, queer, trans and/or disabled writers and artists,
and anyone, anywhere in the world, 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. Seriously, if you know of a way we can do that, please share.
We don’t publish ecofascism or work we perceive to be prejudiced in
any form, including sexism, racism, ableism, ageism. We reserve the
right to point it out—respectfully—when we see it, though we’re as prone
to mistakes and misunderstanding as anyone else.
We do not accept work that was created or edited in any part by an
LLM-based app, including but not limited to ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot,
and/or assistive software like Grammarly. If you are concerned about
how polished your English is, please note that we are a multilingual
group; if we like your story enough to accept it, we will be happy to
work with you on editing. LLM-based apps are against our principles as a magazine and their use is subject to a permanent ban from further submissions.
As with most markets for written work, we don’t consider unsolicited
resubmissions or rewrites, including for works currently under
consideration.
Here’s a start on a list of what else doesn’t work for us.
We do accept simultaneous submissions; you are welcome to submit a
piece both to us and simultaneously to other publications, but please
let us know immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere either using the contact button in Moksha or by contacting us at:
ReckoningMagazine@gmail.com.
To get a better sense of what we publish, please try Reckoning 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, the special issues, the podcast, the interviews, or even LCRW 33.
For genre-specific guidelines and to submit, please choose from the categories below:
