Reckoning is a nonprofit, annual journal of creative writing on environmental justice. We publish art, creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry. There are never any fees to submit your work. We pay $0.15 (US) per word for original fiction and creative nonfiction, $75 (US) per page for poetry and interior art, $250 (US) for cover art. We pay $0.03 (US) for reprints and a $0.03 (US) per word advance on royalties for novellas.
“Reckoning” is an imperfect means of navigation by which one determines where they’re going using only where they’ve been. It can also mean a settling of scores: justice. Here at Reckoning, we acknowledge that the determination of justice is as difficult as enacting it, but that we must continue to strive towards it, even—maybe even especially—in all our imperfections.
Environmental justice is a social and political movement centered around changing the fact that the people most often affected by environmental policy and practice are not the people creating and enacting those policies and practices.
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