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Reckoning

Closed
Length
Up to 15,000 words
Pay
0.15 USD per word
Fee
No fee
Simultaneous
Allowed
Reprints
Not stated

What they accept

Reckoning is a journal of creative writing about environmental justice. Its fiction is mostly speculative, with surreal, literary, and experimental work welcome, and its short fiction page lists lengths up to 15,000 words at 15 cents a word.

Other / not listedLiterary
Languages
English
Resubmissions
Not allowed
AI policy
The magazine does not accept work created or edited in any part by an LLM-based app, including ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, or Grammarly, and such use is subject to a permanent ban.

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