Reckoning is an annual magazine that publishes speculative works on environmental justice. They’re accepting works for a special theme, It Was Paradise, for which they want works at the intersection of war and environmental justice. For this theme, they say, “In a world devastated by catastrophes, we need stories that confront these horrors. This is all out war on the planet, on life itself. War and conflict as viewed through the lens of environmental justice, are the themes for this volume of Reckoning. Probe into the heart of extinction, genocide, and climate crisis. Expose the exploitation of the earth. Show us how the world could be on the other side. Send us your stories of violence, imperialism, fascism, and resistance, of destruction, survival, and of triumph. Send us your creative writing about war and environmental justice. It Was Paradise is open for submissions now through the summer solstice, June 22, 2025, with tentative release scheduled for October.” Payment rate will be $0.15/word for prose for this call (send up to 15,000 words for creative nonfiction and up to 3,000 words for critical essays for this call – see their Moksha submission portal here), $75 per page for poetry and art. As always, we’re seeking submissions from Black, Brown, Indigenous, queer, trans, disabled, neurodivergent, imprisoned, impoverished, and otherwise marginalized human beings from everywhere, but in particular for this issue, we will be prioritizing work by people with lived experience of war and conflict. We’ll continue to accept submissions to our communication-themed regular issue, Reckoning X, throughout. See details of this themed call here, general guidelines here, and submission system here and here.
(Reckoning is also reading regular submissions for Issue X themed around communication, deadline 22nd September 2025.)

Deadline: June 22nd, 2025